Thanks, Andy. Much easier to see. Seems to me the trouble with getting info from the internet nowadays is that there is too much information and too much stuff you don't need to know, like they are making it hard on purpose. "Visit our website at . . . (because really there is no one that is going to pick up the phone to answer your questions)."
msf -- I've just heard bits and pieces of the new Robertson, and only once, which brings me to the argument that I've had with Scoop -- she claims that the music we like is generational, if you were coming of age when Frank Sinatra was on the radio, and you dug it, then that type of music became your music of choice. Music, she claims, is relative to the individual, has a variety of genres, and for the most part is personal, and not subject to criticism. To each his own so to speak. To some extent I agree with her, for instance I did not grow up listening to jazz music, either progressive or traditional, and I have no interest in it today. Same with classical music. However, within the genres there are certainly great artists, average artists, mediocre and poor, and these rankings are much more than just personal opinions or generational coming of age coincidences. I am too young to have listened to Muddy Waters in my formative years yet nobody can tell me he is not a great great artist/musician/singer. And I think that's what music is really all about -- it hits in some part of the collective unconscious, some part of the back brain, that makes you go "YES, by God that is just terrific, that is great music, that is a great song, that is great guitar work, etc." And the great stuff never gets old. It always works.
Then there's Jeter with his Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart . . . so maybe I'm just a country/folk hillbilly.
Merry Christmas White Sox fans!