ShempMcGurk wrote: > > > Ah! > > Sal secretly listens to country music! > > I just saw an interview with the wonderful Norah Jones about her early > influences. As you know, her music is as far from country as you can get. I > was surprised to learn from her interview that almost all her early > influences were country music, which she adores.
She did a couple of tunes at the Gram Parson's concert a couple years ago which you can rent on DVD. Parsons did a lot to get country music out of the rut of hillbilly music. He also had a background in jazz. Country music became big during the ASCAP strike when recording companies signed "country" artists to get around the strike.
