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
country) I thought back to the usual P2 debates, and wuz struck by how
right Jon's been in the past to point out that the altcountry vs. HNC
battles often aren't, emotionally, so much about which is "real"
country so much as a difference in taste about the type of rock
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
A few thoughts vaguely related to some current threads...
So the great mystery of the O97s is now cleared up -- after hearing
only a couple of tracks on comps here and there, I now actually know
what they truly sound and look like and what the hype is about, after
lance davis wrote:
.At the risk of sounding like a moron, what is "HNC?"
Hot New Country. i.e. "not your parents old twangy country" Promo slogan for
denatured country music designed to appeal to a particular primo
demographic. Soft and 70s rock crap with a fiddle buried way way back.
Swore to myself I'd do this properly this time - I don't know if this
is supposed to be Tfest material, but frankly I suspect lots of the
northerners don't bother with you southerners' social palaver. (I'm
beginning to agree with Barry M that the division is slightly
