My real point is that I don’t think it is in the best interest of the arts to make people feel like they need qualifications to check stuff out. That’s not really what you were implying, it’s just the thought path your post took me down.

As for the google alerts, I wish that blogger had trackbacks, so you wouldn’t need the google alerts to tell you what I was saying about your post, but google giveth and google taketh away.

(google alerts rule!)

Just to clarify, I’d distinguish between my enjoyment of (in this instance) Korean sanjo music and my espousal of these particular recordings as fine examples thereof. There’s no question I love ’em and love ’em greatly, no problem there. I’m just very hesitant in “putting them out there” as exemplars of the genre. They may well be (and if I had to bet, I’d bet on it) but I think it’s at least prudent for someone with my degree of knowledge about the subject (relatively nil) to give reasonable consideration to the possibility that I could be all wet. If so, I may still enjoy these recordings but perhaps other (“better”, however one may define the term) examples will provide even greater enjoyment.

Humility in all things, at least in stuff I’m pretty much clueless about! Now, Braxton, I know damn well and won’t hesitate….