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| From | JIMSOULS@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V5 #870 (15 msgs) |
| Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:09:30 EST |
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John Micek writes:
I'm not sure how that makes Stewart part of the problem, exactly.
I think part of the problem with a magazine like ND is that it's so
niche-y that it probably has a limited life-span. I'd gotten the
sense in the last few years that the air had kind of gone out of
alt.country/ND music. I'm not sure who's still pushing the boundaries
of the genre. There's only so much choir-preaching you can do before
you run out of new converts, after all.
And, as a guy who works full-time in the media biz (newspapers), it
really is mutate or die out there.
Not nearly as niche-y as, say, much of the music discussed on this list.
While I always had a problem with the Gram Parsons/Uncle Tupelo/Jayhawks
worship aspect of ND, the magazine provided exposure to a lot of worthwhile
artists who otherwise got ignored by the music press. The issue sitting in front
of me has lengthy features on Otis Taylor and Malcolm Holcombe - neither of
whom can be defined by some narrow definition of "alt-country." When was the
last time Mojo took chances like that?
Readership wasn't the problem. It was advertising. To ND's credit, they
never watered down the product to lure potential advertisers (unlike daily
newspapers, who do this all the time).
Btw, I've been in newspapers for nearly half my life. I vow to be out by my
birthday (March 18). A horrible, horrible industry.
Jim McGuinness
who is entering his bitter years and enjoying every moment
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