Breaking a color line, song by song
Country music attracts more and more African-American listenersand
artists
BY JOHN MARKS
When he first took his country music act on the road in the early 1990s,
Trini Triggs booked himself into the most remote honky-tonks in the state
of Texas. He wanted
That's generally a decent piece, but this:
In American commercial music, the big money has always been in pop. So,
once every two decades or so, hoping to cash in, the country industry in
Nashville tries to kill its inner hillbilly. It bans banjos and fiddles...
In the past decade, the inner
Has Wesley Willis moved to Texas?
Carl Z.
ObAf-AmTwang: About three weeks ago, I finally picked up Arhoolie's
_Sacred Steel_ compilation of African-American pedal steel players from
Florida. I recall this compilation getting mucho praise on this list a
couple years ago, and I concur. Excellent
