Things are tough all over
Last month I ventured for the first time outside my home state of California. In a trip that took me through Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, I learned quite a bit about this country of ours, and unlearned even more.
Things are tough all over.
Last month I ventured for the first time outside my home state of California. In a trip that took me through Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, I learned quite a bit about this country of ours, and unlearned even more. Misconceptions about the threat of rednecks and Southern cops went out the window along with most of my romanticized ideas about the South, including the notion that radio there was somehow freer from the strictures of Top 40 programming, more receptive to local sounds, than in the big cities.
