“...the best writer on the topic of jazz in the world today" ~Toronto Sun Best known as one of the foremost lyricists of the golden age of American popular song ...

Historians have tried to define the South, but few will leave you humming the Great American Songbook quite like Glenn T. Eskew does in Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World (University of ...

On Wednesday, prolific songwriter and singer Johnny Mercer would have turned 100. In his lifetime, he worked with more than 200 collaborators and churned out lyrics for more than 1,500 songs for both ...

Georgia has produced lots of music legends, and names like Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Little Richard, the Allman Brothers and Athens own B-52s and R.E.M. come quickly to mind. But before all of them, ...

As witness Signature Theatre's recent cabaret show "Out of This World," Johnny Mercer had only one peer as a lyricist: Cole Porter. Among the 1,500 songs to which Mercer supplied words that gave the ...