Just when you think you've heard everything, iTunes, for the first time, auto-classifies a song you've purchased as honky tonk. After hearing Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders perform "Cole's Boogie" live on KDHX, I thought, "That's a good guitar riff, and it would segue well with R.E.M.'s instrumental, 'Rotary Ten.'" It hadn't occurred to me that Whitaker's instrumental would register as honky tonk in iTunes, but I suppose it's at least partially accurate...
...More accurate, at least, than SiriusXM classifying Donovan's "Colours" and Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound Of Silence" as Outlaw Country last month.
