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
