http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Wed, 4 Jun 2003 21:59:32 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/06/04/111343.php#comment-10560 Well put, Eric. If there's any musical genre screaming out for its own equivalent of a merciless, take-no-prisoners, punk rock revolution it's Country. (The first two <a HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000I5EJ/ref=pd_sim_music_6/103-6567145-6866261?v=glance&s=music">Meat</A> <A HREF="">Puppets</A> albums were two decades too soon, I guess.) I mean, I don't want to get all Greil Marcus here, but wasn't country music once supposed to be some kind of outlaw music, the songs of hope and honest, heartfelt aspiration in the face of adversity rather than a soundtrack for selling trucks, lite beer and neatly trimmed facial hair? But seriously, is there any <i>real</i> country music left outside of mavericks like <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005N8CQ/qid=1054777587/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/103-6567145-6866261?v=glance&s=music">Gillian Welch</A> these days? It's no wonder Johnny Cash records Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode songs these days. Oh, and it must really hurt to be dissed by a grown-up who goes under the name of "Cadillac Jack" and whose most lasting contributing to music to date was called <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/021223/35112.html">SKATE WITH ELVIS</a>. ]]> 10560@blogcritics.org Wed, 4 Jun 2003 21:59:32 EDT