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| From | Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: Dixie Chicks on EW |
| Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:49:44 -0500 |
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Thanks to Bill Silvers for saying everything in his last few posts (defending the Dixie Chicks, rebutting Greg Sager, and being nice to the always-welcome-please-contribute-more Elizabeth Brion) that I was thinking about saying, except he said it all twice as well as I would have.
Nevertheless, here's two parts of Bill's latest to which I have brief responses:
>> > or the Chicks attempt to do some damage control in Entertainment
>> > Weekly. I imagine there will be some intellectual discourse or its
>> > reasonable facsimile in the magazine, interesting art direction choices
>> > for
>> > the cover aside.
>> >
>> In *Entertainment Weekly*? I wouldn't hold my breath, unless you
>>have a pretty broad definition of "reasonable facsimile".
>
>Who's "elitist" now? It's an information medium like any other.
Exactly. And who's more likely to give the Chicks a forum, EW or THE JOURNAL OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS?
>I'm done if you are, and even if you're not. Heard any great music lately,
>Mr. Sager? Caitlin Cary's new record, I'M STAYING OUT,
>is terrific and maybe the best thing I've heard yet this year. It's not
>insanely great pop (Chris Stamey did a stellar job on the production,
>FWIW), but it is a really entrancing mix of alt-country with R+B, rock and
>folk. Cary's now the most artistically successful former member of Whiskeytown.
I've only heard the one Cary song on the latest Yep Roc! sampler, liked it, and plan to get her CDs this weekend, but on the basis of just that one song, she'd be the most artistically successful former member of Whiskeytown. Reminds me, I'm overdue to put PNEUMONIA in the "sell" pile (GOLD is long gone).
waiting for the Natalie-edited issue of DISSENT,
Miles
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