Farewell ...

Oscar Chamberlain - 6/11/2004

One of the true glories of our age is that we can put on a record, or video tape (and hopefully a DVD or two in the near future) and get a glimpse of greatness past.

In an era in which corporate interests prefer to narrow music markets, he crossed all the lines from country to jazz to blues to rock. And what made it great was not that he was homogenizing the genres but integrating them, in all the best senses of that word, while remaining true to himself.

Heck, he could even make a Pepsi commercial sound good.