[78-L] Western swing festival on WKCR

[Cary Ginell]

Uh, oh. I see that Charles R. Townsend, the chief rah-rah guy for Bob Wills, will have an hour on the third day of the festival to tout his "Bob Wills started it all" spiel. I wonder if his thoughts have changed in the 35 years since his Wills-aggrandizing book came out. It did as much harm to the legacy of western swing as Ken Burns did to jazz with its revisionist, single-sided history. It will be interesting listening.

Cary Ginell