[78-L] Western swing festival on WKCR

[Jeff Sultanof]

Cary,

With that said, are there any books that you recommend that are more
balanced with regard to this genre of music? I love it, but don't know as
much as I'd like to know.

Jeff Sultanof

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:

>
> 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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