But what is its sound? Rob Gibson, director of the annual Savannah Music Festival, spoke inspiringly of the music of the South as he introduced the Sweet-Singing Harmony Harmoneers at the festival last week. 'We believe gospel grew up in Georgia,' he said. I'll write more on the festival later in The Podium. But for now, let me just note that anyone interested in the history of music in the past 100 years could do worse than immerse themselves in the aural ambience, too, of the South.
I flew from Savannah to California, the 'left coast' according to some Georgians. I think it's part of the wonderful kaleidoscope that is America. And even here, there are details you don't expect, such as the Victorian district of LA, only minutes from downtown.
I can't help thinking of the people who frequented these streets in the years before freeways and movies, some of them having ventured across the Wild West from the East, well before that great flowering of the music of the South.
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