This one is not about .Net. ...

First of all apologies to Scott : apologies for the abuse language. Let's blog and take the bumps in .Text for granted as being part of the game. Let's also blog on side steps, aka of-topic. To me blogging is writing about what I've been doing with web technology, but also about what I found out there on the web. Which is more than the .net pages I Google. This post is on another side of American culture.

I have not seen very much of the US yet, been to LA once but mainly saw the convention centre. Been to Manhatten twice, but that's said to not be be the real America. The internet gives me the opportunity to be a virtual tourist. This weekend, looking for more vocal harmonies, I surfed the web on old country music and bluegrass search keys. Numerous samples of historical material popped up. None of them were very enjoyable as most of them were no longer than a couple of seconds after which you are directed to Amazon.com. Far more rewarding was the material on contemporary artists playing “old-style". There is a quite an online community. Many a link leads nowhere but several do have online music.

I would like to share one of the sites I met with you. The Puny Pickers look like coming straight from an US travel brochure. Their site offers two online songs. Real woman drive trucks is an instrumental on banjo and mandolin. Sounds corny ? Actually it does sound wild, authentic and very energizing. The twist is in the second song I'll fly away which does have vocals. The performers are a bunch of kids singing "old-style" razor-harmonies. Out of this world ? Could be, but also right here in the world of the web.

Peter