RTP-area local music and culture

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We're always talking about how things are good in terms of
aunthenticity, which leads to a kind of credulousness that results in
the injured feelings the revelations about James Frey and JT Leroy
produced. What is authentic, original or genuine? What does that mean?
And is this anyway to evaluate music? I examine these questions in a
piece that's running in Seattle. Visit my site and read it! It includes
extra quotes from my interviews with Rick Miller, John Doe, Robert
Christgau and Elijah Wald.It's really a fascinating interview, and they
help dig into it....

Read it at crs-one.net .....