[78-L] Western swing festival on WKCR

[Jeff Sultanof]

Nothing wrong with tooting your own horn. I am well aware that Wills did not
exist in a vacumn, and once had that glorious CD set of Brown's
performances, which I stupidly sold some years ago. He was a giant, no doubt
about that.

Jeff Sultanof

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

>
> Precede this statement with a Jack Benny sigh and a "Well..." I can toot my
> own horn and modestly say, read my book, "Milton Brown & the Founding of
> Western Swing." It's based strictly on my own research, but I think you'll
> find it makes more sense than Townsend's rant about Bob Wills pulling
> western swing out of the ether and that he brought "frontier blues" to
> country music. Wills played in medicine shows when he was young and learned
> much of his early non-traditional material from Bessie Smith and Emmett
> Miller. The rest he got from Milton Brown, like nearly everyone else.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
> > Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:12:58 -0400
> > From: jeffsultanof at gmail.com
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Western swing festival on WKCR
> >
> > 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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