Date:  Tue, 7 May 1996 19:03:04 -0500

From:  Dan Goodman <goodman[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FREENET.MSP.MN.US>

Subject: Speaking "country"



There's at least one singer whose "country" accent is thicker when she

speaks than when she sings: Nanci Griffith.



Not incidentally, country recordings from _very_ early (the 1920's)

mostly have a rather different accent than what's now considered

"country." To me, it sounds more lowland Southern and less "Hillbilly."

(However, I'm not a trained observer. I don't even play one on television.)



Dan Goodman