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TWO MUSICAL DISPATCHES

Mackubin Thomas Owens celebrates the ornery, Scots-Irish roots of country music in National Review Online.

Meanwhile in the Guardian, Israeli expat saxophonist Gilad Atzmon delivers a bizarrely old-fashioned Marxist rant on behalf of jazz ("For the white bourgeoisie, jazz became a problem that had to be addressed...." etc, etc.). Atzmon is a much better musician than pamphleteer. If you want to hear him at his fiery best, try his album, Nostalgico.

UPDATE (OR SHOULD THAT BE ENCORE?)

Terry Teachout offers an excellent appreciation of songwriter Johnny Mercer in his regular Commentary column. (One of the books he mentions, Gene Lees's new Mercer biography, has just arrived on my desk.)

Instapundit has news of the unlikeliest project of the year: Lawrence Welk remixed!

Normblog, by the way, has posted his own take on Atzmon

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