I just spent several weeks dealing with shit from some of my listeners for *daring* to spend time talking about the Byrds' country period and Gram Parsons, like it is literally impossible for country music to have any possible... not just merit, but even importance or interest. It *baffles* me.
There's *loads* of them out there. There's still a *lot* of unreconstructed rockists who swallowed a Reader's Digest version of the Rolling Stone critical line circa 1972 and have never bothered to update their opinions.
