Another Reason Not To Maintain Bookmarks

In checking on some old bookmarks, I went to whatistheword.com. This used to point to a page about the all-too short-lived band, The Word.

The Word put out one album, as far as I know, and it was great. Taught me about the musical form called "sacred steel."

The Word apparently dissolved after pedal steel guitar player Robert Randolph went on to form his own band, and (most of) the rest of the guys formed or re-formed the band called North Mississippi Allstars.

Robert Randolph is a true monster of a musician, as much of a ground-breaker as Chuck Berry or Jimi Hendrix or Eddie Van Halen.

The North Mississippi Allstars are a good band with some good songs. I felt bad for them that Robert Randolph moved on so quickly. I hope they appreciated what they got to be part of at the time. From my memory of the old site, they did.

Here are links to (some of) the separate pieces of The (old) Word:

Robert Randolph and the Family Band

North Mississippi Allstars

The new content on whatistheword.com is just a slow-loading page of headlines, dominated by the usual celebrity gossip and MSM fear-mongering. There's really no reason to visit it (hence, the lack of a hyperlink).

The real question is, what reason was there to create it?

Dorks.