RE: Big Book of Co. Music

1999-03-02 Thread Don Yates 



On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jon Weisberger wrote:

  ps in the Bobby Bare entry, he cites "Detroit City" as a seventies hit
  by Bare. Did Bare record this tune twice, or did Carlin get it wrong?
  I know Bare recorded this tune in the sixties.
 
 Carlin got it wrong, certainly the "hit" part.  The hit was in the 60s.

And that's not all he got wrong.  The Big Book Of Country Music is easily
one of the most unreliable reference books on country that you'll find.
It's riddled with factual errors, and Carlin's critical judgment (such as
it is) leaves much to be desired.--don

RE: Big Book of Co. Music

1999-03-02 Thread Jon Weisberger 

 On the other hand, at least Carlin bothers to have a countrypolitan entry.
 That's more than can be said for the CMF's otherwise excellent Encylopedia
 Of Country Music (well, not entirely otherwise--there's also no southern
 gospel entry, let alone individual entries for the Blackwoods, Statesmen,
 JD Sumner  The Stamps, etc etc. etc.)

True enough about the individual entries, but I'll argue back a little bit
on the southern gospel thing; though there's no entry as such, there's some
discussion in the entry under gospel music (written by Charles Wolfe).
Wolfe essentially treats gospel as its own kind of category, and discusses
the influences of various kinds of gospel on country music; "the most potent
influence," he says, was southern gospel.  I'm not sure I agree with that
approach wholeheartedly, but there's something to be said for it.  It
certainly has had a different set of institutions and conventions.

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