Amy Guskin wrote:
>>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:40:29 -0400, Methuselah Jones wrote
> (in article ):
>> Check out "Any Man of Mine" by Shania Twain, and pay
special attention to 
>> the fiddles. I think you'll like it. <<

> Meh.  If you take out the characteristic breaks in her voice that tell you 
> she's a country singer, it could have been any recent(ish) pop song.

I don't think that's entirely true. The timbre of the guitars, for 
example, is characteristically Country. A better example would be the 
Corrs' "Breathless", which was co-written by ST's husband, but, of 
course, the Corrs have never claimed to be a Country band (except when 
they appeared in "The Commitments), though Sharon's fiddling naturally 
gives them a certain Country edge, since Country itself descends from 
Scotch-Irish.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
(Whose wife, a nice Jewish girl from Queens, has inexplicably started 
writing country songs, probably under the influence of listening to the 
radio while we're driving to Ohio every year for the Ohio Light Opera.)
--- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32