Hey, what's so obscure about Port aux Basques?
Actually, Joe Offer has had such poor Internet service lately that he decided to take a day off the frustration and finish reading a book, Dave Lippman's unpublished Bleaching Our Roots: Race and Culture in American Popular Music. There's a lot of fascinating information in the book, but he seems to be clouded by the assumption that everything black in music is good and everything white in music is bad.
Still, I learned a lot from Lippman's book. Maybe there's value in writing a book with a flawed premise - it did make it easier for him to point out all the influences blacks have had on all forms of music
-Joe Offer-