Prof. Taylor Hagood Podcast (and Banjo Playing!) in Grays Peak Strategies
Check out Professor Taylor Hagood's interview as part of the podcast News from the Peak. The episode is titled "Taylor Hagood on Stringbean, Persistence, and the Problem of Cutting a New Path."
An excerpt from the description on the News From the Peak episodes page:
You can read about Mamlin's conversation with Hagood on Grays Peak Strategies, and you can hear Hagood play the banjo he built while writing the book, Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend.On this episode of News from the Peak, we talk to Professor Taylor Hagood about Stringbean and the work—the very real and often quite fragile work—of writing a book about someone who has tended [to] be seen as only important in death.
Hagood is as engaging a speaker as he is a writer. A professor of literature at Florida Atlantic University., Hagood has a distinguished career as a scholar of William Faulkner, among other writers, and is a teacher and lecturer of no small renown.
Alongside all of that, he somehow finds time to perform magic and sing and play piano and banjo. A skilled visual artist and craftsman, he recently built a banjo that uses the same resonator as the one most closely associated with Stringbean (the Vega #9 Tubaphone) and closely follows it in other elements of its design. [ . . . ]
