Sure, in Country Music Detours, you bet there'd be a heap lot of Pam Tillis reviews, but that's not what a college-based entertainment section is or should be. At any rate, that's Detours' vision. If other publications want to run reviews of the new Hootie album, good for them. Hey, if that's how little it takes for their editors to feel like they're informing the public, then great. I wish it were that simple.
Detours rejects popular music altogether.
Some Atlantic publicist was kind enough to send us the highly-publicized CD by fab folk singer Jewel, the Alaskan sensation. I'm not sure Detours needs to be the 52nd paper this week to rave about the rising Jewel, but it's nice to have the album just to check it out. Maybe we'll like it a lot. Maybe we'll even write about it. But if we don't support it in print, it won't be because we reject its label or its popularity.