![]() ![]() While I do agree this book should not be read in one sitting and it is more scholarly and exhaustive than actually interesting, it is an essential resource for Atlanta music historians and I'm glad to own a copy that I can reference. I would never recommend it to anybody that wouldn't have had enough interest to eventually find it themselves. Daniel (in his book Pickin on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia, 1990) opines: 'The output from this historic recording session makes for a rather unimpressive list of what even there were long-familiar tunes and songs: 'Hand Me Down My Walking Cane,' 'Bully of the Town,' 'Pass Around the Bottle and Well All. ![]() It's better used as a resource book than something that will hold interest. I found very interesting the emphasis on authenticity (whatever that is), tradition, and nostalgia of some elusive universal farm everyone wishes they were back at. I also enjoyed the history of the Georgia Old Time Fiddle competitions. The most informative, interesting, and important chapter is the one on the four biggest Atlanta artists Fiddlin' John Carson, Riley Puckett, Gid Tanner, and Clayton McMichen. Most of the information you get from this book on the way country music at the time worked is also attained from A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry, and in a lot more of an entertaining form. Pickin' on Peachtree is an exhaustive, and at most times dry history that reads like a lineage in Genesis. ![]()
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