In 1995 Lane and two journalists, Gary Henderson and Betsy Wakefield Teter, formed the nonprofit Hub City Writers Project to persuade local writers to write about Spartanburg to foster a sense of place in the face of galloping sprawl and suburbanization. Cooper wrote an ambitious book on the town's musical history. But it is a reminder that local artists and communities have the access to printing and electronic technologies to play in the larger leagues. And there are areas where smaller can be better, like the Americana or alternative country scene, where the most admired artists, like Jim Lauderdale, Fulks, Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch, Dave Olney, Steve Earle and, until recently, Lucinda Williams tend not to be played on sound-alike country radio or signed to major labels. They'd say, you're ugly, you sing funny and your songs have too many verses.
Technology can be a dangerous thing.
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