March 03, 2009
Nabin goes country - Nathan Rabin, in my estimation best among the the Onion AV Club's many estimable writers, is going country. For a year, the ex-Hip Hop reviewer will be easing in from the shallow end (Johnny Cash's American Records) to eventually wind up in the dark water that is Big and Rich, Shania Tawin, and Beckto.
This is reminiscent a bit of Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson, one of the best books I read last year. Wilson attempts to understand why hugely popular artists -- your Celine Dions, Bonnie Raitts, basically every undeserving Grammy winner -- raise such vituperative disdain from music devotees (and so most professional critics).
Highly recommended, though I'm not backing down from any of my AEthermuck inclusions.
Also, I thought Bonnie Raitt fell into the Grace Slick school of "used to be cool, kinda started sucking during the mid '80s"
Though Jefferson Airplane was kind of overrated, anyway.
Comment only relevant for next 5 minutes: Carl Wilson is on Colbert right now.
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Bonnie Raitt raises disdain? I thought that she was a hugely respected slide guitarist (by critics).
I mean, I bet if we ask Hipster Phil if he likes Bonnie Raitt, he'd say "no" resoundingly, but we all kind of know where he stands anyway.
<thanks to doncarlo and his pancake-grabbing epee for the Hipster Phil beatdown link that HP will never get to see.>
posted by NanoCindy at 11:28PM CST on March 03