>>Hot New Country. i.e. "not your parents old twangy country" >>Promo slogan for denatured country music designed to appeal to >>a particular primo demographic. Soft and 70s rock crap with >>a fiddle buried way way back. > > So, this is what I learned today: HNC is not really "hot." It's > new only in that its not "old." And it's barely "country." Hmm, I'm confused. No need to be confused; the first line of Stuart's definition is right. After that it's more problematic, insofar as it describes only a part of what's available on mainstream country radio; there's a good deal more fiddle and steel guitar to be heard from the mainstream than from the alt.country side. It's revealing, though, in terms of what Carl Wilson was discussing - i.e., the "soft and 70s rock crap" is a marker indicating that the underlying point is the writer's taste in rock music. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
