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It was an especially happy morning for the Rock Snob brain trust, for the Today show unexpectedly ran a long segment on Snob mascot and recurring Yacht Rock character Jeff “Skunk” Baxter–who, as anyone who has read page 9 of our book is aware, is not only an ace session guitarist and ex-Doobie Brother but an adviser to the Pentagon on ballistic missile defense! Click here to see the Today report and the sight of the Skunk in a suit and tie. December 15, 2005 More Rock Snobbery »
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Master Musicians of Jajouka, the. More respected than enjoyed Moroccan collective whose members play the ancient devotional music of the peoples of the Er Rif Mountains, near Tangier. Though their wailing horns and pipes and polyrhythmic drumming often make for mesmerizing listening, the Master Musicians, who were first given Western exposure by such druggie adventurers as William S. Burroughs and the Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones, are most readily revered by killjoy World Music Snobs (chief among them was the late New York Times critic Robert Palmer) who view their work as the musical equivalent of oat bran, to be dutifully taken in as nourishment rather than as a sensual experience. I can’t be bothered with rock music anymore; all I listen to is Miles Davis’s Nefertiti and the Master Musicians of Jajouka. Read more from the Rock Snob's Dictionary » 
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