[78-L] Western swing festival on WKCR

Cary Ginell soundthink at live.com
Thu Mar 24 12:08:52 PDT 2011


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
 		 	   		  


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