>Marty, thanks for reminding me of Sweetheart of the Rodeo--If you ever
>spend time in Nashville, it's instructive to go to the Country Music
>Hall of Fame (as well as all the other old shrines of the music, like
>Ryman Auditorium, Tootsie's saloon or Hatch Show Prints, the poster
>makers for the Grand Ol' Opry, most of the major rockabilly shows and,
>long ago, the minstrel shows that traveled the south). I've always
>thought that folk music had a strong country feel to it--all those
>Scottish ballads that Pete Seeger sings, for example, or the music of
>Doc Watson. The Byrds just added some amps and brought in the influence
>of Bob Wills.
>
>Speaking of the trivialization of the 1960s, have people here noted (it
>was on NPR's program Market Place) that the official entertainment for
>the coming meeting of the G7 nations is Bob Dylan?
>
>Ron Silliman
>rsillima@ix.netcom.com
******************************************************************************
new e-mail address: jwood@mail.sdsu.edu