You know, I guess I think I've always been a professional critic, you know, or some sort of professional

appreciator or something. I'm going to. Now this is serious business here man.

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One great rock show can change the world.

Country music is quintessentially American,

but to many rock fans it's quintessentially corny.

Today we let a country fan defend her genre with the

rock fans guide to country music. I'm Greg Cod of the Chicago Tribune and I'm Jim

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Time now for some music news. the This particular instrument just has qualities that I've just fallen in love with playing it for this week.

I've experienced falling in love with instruments before where I've fallen in love with them and then after a week or so I start to see the weaknesses and I realize that might have been a shallow infatuation.

This violin has been quite the opposite.

I mean I fell in love with it at first but the more I play on it,

the more I'm finding qualities in it that just that excite me.

That is Grammy Award winning violinist Joshua Bell rhapsodizing about a violin called

a view Tom Gornary that is currently for sale for a mere $18 million.

If it goes for that price, it will be the most expensive instrument ever sold, according to many experts. It has been around for centuries invented in

1741, very modest beginnings in the town of Cremona in Italy by a craftsman there and passed on through the centuries that has been

played by the greatest violists in the world in the greatest concert halls.

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