Today I browsed around a little, and saw that my boy Paul Melancon will be opening for the Indigo Girls in November! Good for him. Whilst browsing around their site, I found this article by Amy Ray debunking the notion that lesbians currently control folk music. It makes for interesting reading.

What if a few mediocre, straight, male rock bands were used to epitomize a whole scene? Would we blame Pearl Jam for creating a limited genre and encouraging bad musicianship in others? All one has to do is flip through commercial radio channels to see that mediocrity in every form but gay is being sliced, diced, and marketed to us all in the name of advertising dollars. This rampant mediocrity is a symptom of a corporate music empire that encourages segregation of audiences for reasons of profit rather than community.