[78-L] Western swing festival on WKCR

[Michael Biel]

On 3/24/2011 7:00 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> We still have them in stock - at probably less than you paid for it originally (hint, hint)
>
> Cary

Is the price reduction any reaction to the unfair competition from the 
piracy of the ImproperBox thatI know pissed you off?By the way, how much 
of it was derived from your set?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>> 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