Episode 44: Navigating the Musical Landscape of the 1960s with Frye Gaillard and His Book ‘A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s’
Join us on Rock is Lit as we explore the transformative 1960s with author Frye Gaillard and his nonfiction masterpiece ‘A Hard Rain,’ delving into the era’s tragic and hopeful narratives, cultural manifestations of change, influential figures, and the music that shaped this iconic American decade.
Episode 14: Michael Amos Cody with Frye Gaillard and Peter Cooper
In this episode of Rock is Lit we’re venturing inside the complicated world of the Nashville music biz. Michael Amos Cody joins me to talk about his novel ‘Gabriel’s Songbook’, which follows starry-eyed Gabriel Tanner on his quest to strike it big as a singer-songwriter in the Music City in the 1980s.
In the final segment, Frye Gaillard and Peter Cooper drop by to talk about the real Nashville music scene in the 1980s. Frye is an historian and author of such books as ‘A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s’, ‘The Southernization of America’, which he co-wrote with Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker, and ‘Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music’. Peter is the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s senior director, producer, and writer.