RTP-area local music and culture

[Bryk <lists AT bryk.com>]

On 16-Dec-05, at 2:34 PM, Chris Rossi wrote:

> Chris Calloway wrote:
> > Il Rossi:
> > the
> > toby keith thing really bothers me, though.
> sometimes they grow out of that.  sometimes they don't.
> ...
> i kind of wish i didn't know toby keith existed.

now, now. toby keith has written and/or cut some pretty great  
"sides". i do wish he was a redneck liberal rather than an  
opportunistic, jingoid tool of the military-industrial complex blah  
blah blah.

however, i'm sure i would have felt the same way about Merle Haggard  
if I'd been 35 and living around here when "Okie from Muskogee" was  
all over the radio. now I get and respect Hag's work deeply, even  
when i disagree with him. funny how time can divorce one's political  
biases from what's actually pretty good music.

whereas I'm not sure I need to listen to the Blow Monkeys much  
nowadays now that Thatcher's out of office. i think it's important to  
remember that great politics does not necessarily equal great music.  
(notwithstanding that, i'm gonna dig up Stations of the Crass when i  
get home...)