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Pickin' on Peachtree is an exhaustive, and at most times dry history that reads like a lineage in Genesis. 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. 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. I also enjoyed the history of the Georgia Old Time Fiddle competitions. 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. It's better used as a resource book than something that will hold interest. I would never recommend it to anybody that wouldn't have had enough interest to eventually find it themselves.
Original Rating: 2/5

Update: 2019
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. 3/5