Quotes from David K. Kirby

But the take from February 7, 1956 is the one we know today: Gonna-TELL-Aunt-MARy-'BOUT-Uncle-JOHN! That's the backbeat entering American popular music.

Everyone who has never been to the South, and especially Northern journalists, are experts on that part of the country. Trained reporters who wouldn't dare venture an opinion on Iraq or Pakistan because they've never worked in those countries are happy to tell you about life in Dothan or Bainbridge, because, well, everybody knows what those people are like down there.

Robbie Robertson of the Band said he always knew when they were playing in the south, because that's where everybody claps on the backbeat. Exactly.