Alastair (et. al): If flag-waving Yanks eager for anti-U.S, CDs to burn can buy as many Dave Douglas CDs as they do of the Dixie Chicks this would be great for Douglas' sales. Heck if rednecks even bough one half the # of DD CDs as DC CDs, Douglas would be the best selling jazz artists since Louis Armstrong. Ken Waxman --- alastair@pretentious.co.uk wrote:
Dave merely apologised for his President on Sunday night, to the predictable applause. I don't think the Dixie Chicks thing will ever happen to him as, despite being on RCA, he's not what you'd call a mainstream artist. I doubt Joe Public in Buttsville, Arizona will ever know or care who Douglas is. I also think (and here's where I duck for cover) that Jazz fans are far more likely to be left-leaning than Nashville-style Country fans, and therefore far less likely to burn his CDs just because he doesn't agree with the Anglo-American police action in Iraq.
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