Was perusing Richard Carlin's "The Big Book of Country Music" (Penguin
Press, 1995) last night. Man, this book is chock full of provocative
judgments about country music and its past -- enough stuff to launch
hundreds of lengthy threads about such things as country vs. pop,
production, the
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
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,
