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 ...

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, ...

Johnny Mercer, the Savannah songwriter with the gap-toothed smile, wrote songs with everyone from Duke Ellington to Sadie Vimmerstedt. Ellington you’ve heard of. Vimmerstedt, his unlikeliest partner, ...