"Real" country is probably a bit different for anyone here as well as those
artists who say that they wish to get back to their roots and do some "real"
country. I would imagine that defining "it" would take into account an
individual's preferences, exposure to
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
One clarification to my post on this thread yesterday:
That is, in response to Todd's question, "What are people trying to say
*today* when they contrast HNC or ND to 'real' country?," I was only
trying to get at that contemporary usage of "real" country.
I was not tryi
At 04:36 PM 1/29/1999 -0500, you wrote:
At 12:25 PM 1/29/99 -0500, Todd wrote:
I'd be interested to hear country defined in the positive -- that is by
actually naming the musical elements that make something country rather
than by saying what it's *not*. ... My guess is that for every supposed
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 ty
I think a definition of country music--now as before--that doesn't resort
to lists of what it's NOT is still relatively easy. We can then begin (did
I say "begin"?) proposing who that's around fits the bill!
Country music is a commercial extension of Anglo-Celt, Scots-/Irish folk
music as it
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
Bob sez:
Hey, Junior, I'm sure you too remember a time when any post that was
*shorter* than what you sent out wasn't taken seriously...
I sure do, s'matter of fact. Yessiree, even when I give David a hard
time about strings and such, it doesn't elicit the historical-critical
productions of
