Jonny Whiteside
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Jonny Whiteside is a veteran music journalist and award winning author.He has appeared in multiple film and television documentaries, including The South Bank Show - Season 25, Episode 12 - Johnnie Ray, Gears doc Don't Be Afraid to Pogo, TROY! The Original Lady Boy, E! Mysteries and Scandals Dorothy Kilgallen, The Jimmy Project. He is author of "Ramblin' Rose: the Life and Career of Rose Maddox," (Country Music Foundation/Vanderbilt University Press, 1997), winner of the American Society of Recorded Sound Collection's Best Research in the Field of Recorded Country Music award, also a finalist in the 1997 Ralph J Gleason awards; "Fast becoming the standard by which country music biographies are judged," Peter La Chappele, author "Proud to be an Okie" and "Cry: the Johnnie Ray Story" (Barricade Books, 1994), "an essential book on fame and pop culture," Marshall Crenshaw in the New Yorker; "a valuable biography," Robert Hilburn, LA Times; John Waters ranked "Cry" at number three on his Top Ten Tinseltown Books, Playboy, January 2006. Whiteside contributed numerous entries in the Country Music Foundation's "Encyclopedia of Country Music" and "The Rough Guide to Country Music"; LA Weekly cover story "Love & Hell: Merle Haggard's Twin Oracles" anthologized in DaCapo Press' Best Music Writing of 2000 anthology, edited by Peter Guralnick; directly cited more than thirty times in Gerald Haslam's "Working Man's Blues: Country Music in California."