Samples from “Cowboys in Capes”
San Antonio Rose
Low Groove
Cold, Cold Heart
Los Zapatitos
Your Cheatin’ Heart
Cowboys in Capes
Dorothy Ann
If You Ain’t Dutch, You Ain’t Much
I Come to the Garden Alone
Samples from “Misunderestimated”
Day Gig
An Inconsequential Life
Jangled
First Dance
Jumpin’ the Shark
Shades
Don’t Know
Her Touch
Misunderestimated
Rosalita d’el Fuego
There is a very good documentary originally produced and aired a few years ago on PBS that examined jazz and hip-hop. In comparing the two types of music, the producers focused on both types of music and how each was scorned by many at first but eventually became accepted by white, mainstream audiences. The video,… READ MORE »
Is musical taste derived from “free will” or are listeners programmed to like what is easy and available—conditioned to like what is spoon-fed by the media? Are music consumers falling for mass-produced musical products that are easily marketed and sold? Is pop music like a newspaper that needs to be written at a 6th grade… READ MORE »
NEIL WETZEL
