Re: real country [was re: old 97s in Toronto]

1999-01-31 Thread stuart
Jon Weisberger wrote: let me commend to your attention the fine essay on "Country Music As Music" by Bill Evans, "So where is the 'country' in country music? To borrow a well-worn advertising phrase, it might be more a state of mind than any specific set of unique musical

RE: real country [was re: old 97s in Toronto]

1999-01-29 Thread Jon Weisberger
Boy, I'd sure like to take on this thread, and I hope to later on, but I am just getting my eyebrows over this backlog of work that's piled up... In the meantime, let me commend to your attention the fine essay on "Country Music As Music" by Bill Evans, the banjerpicking ethnomusicologist; it