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Sharing the Stage: Blacks in Country Music |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Michael Perry |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,506 Words, 15,180 Characters |
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For some time now, Nashville has been riding a tsunami of twang, but the platinum-plated wave seems to have crested. The star-maker ship is still under steam, but up and down Music Row, you get the feeling that people are looking to grab on to something that will float. Music City USA needs a Next Big Thing. For its part, Warner/Asylum Records has taken a stab at the future by signing the all-male group Wheels.
With a smattering of cowboy hats among them, the members of Wheels pull on their boots and sing about swimmin' in the river, fixin' on old trucks, and finding love in the supermarket. They sing about Cajun queens, honky-tonks, and Daddy. And lead singer Chris Avery often gets his point across via that old country music standby, wordplay: "Why'd you come/if you didn't wanna go?" s...
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...of Country: People and Places in American Music, Pantheon Books, New York, 1997.
Bill Friskics-Warren, "That Ain't My Song on the Jukebox," Nashville Scene, August 28, 1997.
Michael Perry, "Black Country Showcase," No Depression, May--June 1997.
Nick Tosches, Country: Living Legends and Dying Metaphors in America's Biggest Music, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1977.
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