[78-L] Western swing festival on WKCR

[Cary Ginell]

We still have them in stock - at probably less than you paid for it originally (hint, hint)

Cary

> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:50:53 -0400
> From: jeffsultanof at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Western swing festival on WKCR
> 
> 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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