Music: Agreement and Disagreement

Pitchfork Media, which consistently delivers insight on the independent-ish music scene has a middling review of Steve Earle's "Jerusalem" this week. I don't agree much with the review, because "Jerusalem" became a better record after I listened to it about a dozen times, which is something a reviewer sometimes doesn't have the time to do. But the reviewer, William Bowers, does slam in one of the most crushing and dead-on definitions of what passes for country music these days. He calls it "the committee-written popaganda leaking from the bowels of whatever lunkhead cowboy or smiley slutloaf got corralled into sing-slinging it." You are correct, sir!