From the Black Snob:
After I spent five years in Bakersfield, Calif., I returned to St. Louis with a much wider appreciation of music than I had when I grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest. Namely, a wider interest in classic country and punk rock, two staples of the Bakersfield music scene when I was working as an entertainment reporter. It was the same town that had spawned both Merle Haggard with one generation and Korn with another, and while I never really got into Korn's sound, I did enjoy a lot other punk rock acts, new and old, and had the distinction of being the oldest (and blackest) person to occasionally take in a show at Jerry's Pizza.
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