There are a few differing impressions you get from a recent piece in the New York Times covering the experiences captured at a music festival held last month. I say “impressions” because there are no real revelations shown nor clear conclusions arrived at in the piece. Instead, we get the practice seen often of a cloistered city elitist making “discoveries” in flyover country, as well as confounding details as the concert-goers were not delivering the expected results.
Reporter Richard Fausset attended the two-day Rock The Country concert fest in South Carolina, one of seven stops featuring an array of mostly country music acts, toplined by Kid Rock and Jason Aldean. Fausset toured the grounds, hung out with tailgaters, and explored backstage. While maybe not quite lapsing into wide-eyed wonderment at the previous unexplored facet of the South – as some reporters do,…
