S Peer, Ralph Peer II’s father and Mary Megan Peer’s grandfather. Today, it has a global presence in 32 countries and a catalog comprising over 500,000 songs.

A new book by music journalist Barry Mazor, “Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music,” released Nov. 3, follows the arc of both Peer’s life and the music industry. His story begins ...

Ralph Peer, whose career started with wax recording cylinders and ended with vinyl LPs, was one of them. Peer was a major force behind popularizing what was then known as roots music: country ...

When Ralph S. Peer died in 1960, his wife, Monique I. Peer, ran the company for 20 years. Ralph Peer II became CEO in 1980. Peermusic today controls more than 350,000 copyrights.

Peer recorded 76 songs by 19 performers or performing groups. For the Carter Family, their recordings began a four-year run that saw them sell over 300,000 records in the United States.

Ralph Peer's first Southern hit was fiddler John Carson from Atlanta, Georgia, whose first recording of The Little Old Log Cabin and The Old Hen Cackled sold more than 500,000 copies nationwide.

Peer is an odd candidate for a man who changed the musical world. He was born in small town Missouri -- a town named Independence -- in 1892, and started his career in the music industry at age 11.

Peermusic‘s Ralph Peer II is handing the reins of the independent music publishing company he’s run for 37 years to his daughter and deputy, Mary Megan Peer. She’ll assume the role of CEO ...

Ralph Peer’s family, specifically Ralph Peer II, who’s the head of Ralph Peer Music to this day, read the book, saw it and they got a hold of me.

No one blazed that trail as adventurously, aggressively, profitably or indelibly as legendary A&R (artists & repertoire) man Ralph S. Peer, the subject of a compelling and eminently readable new ...

BRISTOL, Va. — Step inside the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family peer upon the museum’s lobby from a tall piece of artwork. Just after 6 Wednesday night ...