“I'm not sure if I should explicitly blame NAFTA for this, or just chalk it up to yet another case of outsourcing, but the States' fine musical heritage continues to be sold back to us by the more attuned tastemakers in Japan, Germany, Italy, and England. The Brits, with that sterling exchange rate and unequivocal love of-- as one music journal states it-- "American Negro Music" continue to kill us”