Tell me what to write in my next column

[koganbot]

I am in Connecticut for Thanksgiving hence have only library access to a computer hence no listening to or downloading music on it and also all my music is in Denver obviously and I have no idea what to write for the column that's due next week? So you people should tell me what to write about. Please suggest many things. Perhaps I will write about all of them. Or maybe we could do this as Ask Frank Kogan, which was a pretty good thread on ilX once because people kept asking me about things I knew nothing about, and I would answer.

Comments

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my professor who used to be the pres of WNBC in NYC is a big country fan. It's the #1 radio format in the country! A lot of the southeast has been megalopolized anyway, so those are urban audiences listening to country. Calling it authentic covers up the way that it's selling an image to people with no direct contact with the situation being described, and that this is what makes it good art rather than just reportage.

I saw the Brooks mentioned on ILM today but haven't had a chance to process it. That guy! Yeah, the last thing kids need in a musical education now is Muddy Waters. He won already.

[koganbot]

Actually, I'd misremembered the Brooks; the dipshit setting up the curriculum is Little Stevie, and he's probably not really a dipshit, just a bit narrow.

I actually like Brooks. He's totally in over his head on cultural matters, but he's the only Times columnist other than Maureen Dowd to understand that hairstyle matters, and he's genuinely curious. Like a clueless but curious uncle. Of course, that's what I should be.

[koganbot]

And actually good accounts of Muddy Waters wouldn't be a bad thing. Don't know if Muddy's sensibility "won," in that I doubt that it [whatever it is] is shared by the many white musicians who drew on him.