Performance
Date
Saturday,
June 7
Music
- and by extension, the people who make and listen
to it - is an art form endlessly divided into
categories: from blues to jazz, rap to reggae and
pop to rock to punk to metal, ad nauseam. The same
goes for individual songs, divided not only by genre
but further by "type": happy songs, sad
songs, protest songs, patriotic songs, drinking
songs, gospel songs, work songs, party songs and of
course & love songs.
Some folks like their music divided this way; it
helps them organize their record collection, know
what artists to follow and which radio stations to
listen to and even what to put on their mix tapes
and CDs. But Guy Forsyth, an artist who's had a go
at most - if not yet quite all - of the
aforementioned genres, likes to simplify things.
"When you break it down, there's really only
three types of music," he rations on a sunny
afternoon in his adopted hometown of Austin, Texas.
"There's the stuff you like, the stuff you
don't like and the stuff you haven't heard."
For
more information on Guy, visit www.guyforsyth.com.
