Bookmarks: Some stuff to read on the internet

There's a piece on the resurgence of what used to be called New Country (would that be New New Country? Nu Country?) in this morning's Times, including a meeting with Suzy Bogguss:

“There’ve always been the classic examples of people who’ve walked the edge of country,” Bogguss says, “like Steve Earle, Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris. But people haven’t realised there are those of us who came out of the 1990s country scene doing exactly the same thing. I was making records that were getting on the air easily, [but when] I had the opportunity to make a record with Chet, I pretty much slammed the brakes on. It was important to me, much more so than staying on the radio. Then I had a child and my record label fell apart. But I don’t look back and think my life was ruined. At a certain point, I started thinking, ‘I just have to do whatever I have to do, and some people will stick with me, and some people will discover me. At least I’ll be doing what I want to do, and not feel I’m part of a corporate machine.’”