XPost: rec.music.country.western, nashville.general   
   From: olin62@comcast.net   
      
   "Lane Gray, Czar Castic"  wrote in message   
   news:opss7smjgq8955ol@stylgar...   
   > On 30 Jun 2005 04:09:43 -0700,  wrote:   
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   >>   
   >>   
   >> Lane Gray, Czar Castic wrote:   
   >>> Yep.  Just think how much better bluegrass or country would sound if   
   >>> Bill   
   >>> (or Jimmie Rodgers before him, or Hank Williams after) had resisted the   
   >>> urge to listen and learn from the black folks singing the blues.   
   >>>   
   >>> Geez, whadda dork.   
   >>>   
   >>> --   
   >>> Lane Gray   
   >>> And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.   
   >>> Gen   
   >>> 2:25   
   >>> remove the .lead from my address   
   >>   
   >> If you equate the alleged influence of blues on country music as an   
   >> important contribution to western civilization you are simply a mutant.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Well, Captain bonehead, may I direct your attention to the headers up   
   > top?  Given that this discussion takes place in rcmw, nashville.general   
   > and amb, it only seems logical to direct attention to those aspects of   
   > western civ that are germane to the topics of the groups, and it really   
   > boggles the mind that one needs to add the word 'alleged.'  Hiram King   
   > Williams made no bones about the black guy that taught him a great deal of   
   > what he knew about music, Jimmie Rodgers' status as an heir to the blues   
   > is well-nigh unmistakable.   
   > One could also bring up the fact that American cuisine couldn't possibly   
   > look the way it does without African influence (deep-fat frying comes from   
   > there, pretty hard to do a french fry without it, leaving aside fried   
   > chicken or chicken fried steak), asian imports (most of the spices, the   
   > one that comes immediately to mind is cinnamon or its ersatz cousin   
   > cassia), not to mention italian foods (and of course the tomato part   
   > needed to get imported to Italy from the New World before it could make   
   > the trip here in the form of a good marinara sauce)   
   >   
      
   "Minority" contributions to music, art, cuisine and even more important   
   disciplines is well-documented and unassailable, and further proof why it's   
   pointless to argue with the "anti-race-mixing" crowd. They always have an   
   "answer" for everything. Whether it's a valid and correct answer is always   
   entirely beside the point.   
      
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