Barbara Bamberger Scott is a writer (primarily a book reviewer) and singer who has authored a book about her years as a carnie (With It: A Year on the Carnival Trail, Behler Publications) and another about a religious conversion among a group of psychedelic hippies (Golden Thread, Meher Mownavani Press). She runs the website A Woman's Write, featuring competitions for aspiring female writers. In an earlier incarnation she lived overseas from Kenya to Botswana to Spain to Sweden to London, and has recorded song projects with Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl, and Tom Paley. As part of the Scott Family Band she sings Carter/Louvin style duets with her stepson (The Great Divide, Patuxent Records). She lives in Mount Airy (the fictional "Mayberry"), North Carolina, a heart center of oldtime/bluegrass music, and works as an administrator in a day program for adults with mental retardation.
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Reviews by Barbara include:
Hugh Morrison
Under a Texas Skye
John Jacob Niles
The Ballads
Jonathan Aitken
John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace
Alan Alda
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Kevin Begos, Daniel Deaver, John Railey & Scott Sexton
Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program & the Campaign for Reparations
Olof A. Eriksen
Memoirs of an Immigrant
Bea Gold
Tell Me a Story: Stories from a Childhood in Old New York
Mark Hudson
Fire Management in the American West
Pamela K. Kinney
Haunted Richmond
Ursula K. Le Guin
Powers
Mike Sager
Revenge of the Donut Boys: True Stories of Lust, Fame, Survival & Multiple Personality
Roni Stoneman, with Ellen Wright
Pressing On
Gary R. Varner
Creatures in the Mist: Little People, Wild Men & Spirit Beings Around the World
Jerry Lee Lewis: Greatest Live Performances of the '50s, '60s & '70s
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