>OK, so these are not traditional ways of categorizing things, but I'm >kind of confused on just what the boundaries are or why they are important, >although they clearly are. If you're confused on what they are and why they're important, maybe you shouldn't be spending time plotting them, then. I kind of take comments about "denatured" country music and a description of one kind of what is generally accepted as country music as "soft and 70s rock crap" as leaning in the direction of drawing boundaries. But unless the "70s" part of that phrase is purely objective description - rock music made between 1970 and 1979 - then by golly, a difference of opinion regarding what kind of rock is better than what other kind is the, or at least a critical part of, the underlying point. And calling Owens rock and late 60s Rolling Stones country is just a Humpty Dumpty way of muddying the waters. >> there's a good deal more >> fiddle and steel guitar to be heard from the mainstream than from the >> alt.country side. > >Well I can't engage this claim without seeing a lineup of the teams and the >exact criteria by which the players are placed in column A or column B. Column A(=bands w/fiddle and/or steel) Column B (bands w/o fiddle and/or steel) mainstream country acts, alt.country acts, e.g., Garth Brooks e.g., Bottlerockets Always glad to help clear things up. Of course, there is the occasional steel-carrying alt.country act, and there are some mainstream acts that don't carry one, but all in all that's a reasonably accurate map. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
