Memphis in the Meantime

Apparently 36 hours is all most people can spend in this town. Check out Robert Gordon's piece in today's Times. (What, you haven't signed up yet?) He wrote this book, connected with this CD, which spawned a cultural movment, the latest event of which is this festival in a country where people appreciate music. Of couse, they've had lots of practice---and learned from terrible mistakes in sound (just the first one that popped into my head, I'm sure there's centuries of them).