[78-L] Another museum closes

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Mon Sep 13 18:37:45 PDT 2010


> As I posted here in May, I visited the Jimmy Rogers museum on the way to 
> and
> from the ARSC conference.  Unfortunately it is over-priced but I enjoyed 
> the
> visit, met a delightfully enthusiastic curator, purchased a CD box of all 
> of his
> recordings and got lots of great photos.  This museum is saluting a man 
> who has
> been dead for almost 80 years so I think there's more to it than that the
> artists' contemporaries are dying off.
>
> db


Of course...much of it depends on the artist in question.  I'm sure even 
die-hard Liberace fans would not consider him as influential on music as was 
Rogers.

Taylor




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