Jerry Zolten
Jerry Zolten has been writing freelance about American roots music for the past 35 years with articles in Sing Out!, Living Blues, The Old Time Herald, and The Journal of Country Music and liner notes for Document, Universal, Rounder, and Lost Highway. He is the producer of The Fairfield Four, Wreckin' the House (Dead Reckoning), Isaac Freeman and the Bluebloods' Beautiful Stars (Lost Highway), and Chimpin' the Blues, a public radio program co-hosted with cartoonist Robert Crumb. Zolten's most recent book is Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music (Oxford University Press)
Gene Santoro's review of Jerry's Dixie Hummingbirds book
4 articles
List of articles in the library
Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys: Western Swingtime Music: A Cool Breeze in the American Desert
Overview by Jerry Zolten, Sing Out!, June 1974
IN THE GOLDEN days of big band swing, while Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington were sizzling in the cities, a back-country form of big band ...
Archie Edwards: Jumpstartin' the Blues: Piedmont Bluesman Archie Edwards
Profile and Interview by Jerry Zolten, Living Blues, April 1996
Talks About Roots, Rights, and Rhythms ...
Bumble Bee Slim: A Rough Rugged Road: From Georgia to Chicago to Hollywood with Bumble Bee Slim
Retrospective by Jerry Zolten, Living Blues, September 1997
MY ENTREE into the world of bluesman Bumble Bee Slim came not by choice, but by chance. It happened a few years ago in the ...
Rudy Ray Moore: 'I Ain't Lyin'!'...The Unexpurgated Truth about Rudy Ray Moore
Retrospective and Interview by Jerry Zolten, Living Blues, May 2001
2008 Prologue: RUDY RAY MOORE, a.k.a. "Dolemite," the "Godfather of Rap," the "World's Greatest X-Rated Comedian," and "Blaxploitation" filmmaker, passed away at age 81 in ...
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