As it happens, Hawaii, where Strait learned to sing, is one of the genre's many wellsprings: it was there, in the late nineteenth century, that a guitarist named Joseph Kekuku figured out that he could bend pitches by laying the guitar on his lap and sliding a steel bar along the strings.
It is a view that Wellspring stresses it does not share.
"We have to be able to scale 400 people in a few months for a project, and India is simply a wellspring of IT talent".
But as much damage as this decade did to our planet, it may still one day be seen as the wellspring of its salvation.
Of course, radio, television and the Internet have irrevocably altered our information-gathering habits, and the post office is no longer the wellspring of democracy it once was.
This touchy-feely ethos has helped pathologize the misanthropy that has traditionally been the wellspring of satire; it has also tainted the venting of contempt, snobbery and critical scorn with an aura of psychic ill health, not to mention "elitism".
Raymond's Times was apparently modeled on The Times of London, known then as a wellspring of integrity, and it embodied many of the qualities that would make it famous -- an unsensational view of the news, an avoidance of partisanship and bombast, a mannerly tone and thorough reporting.
Huawei was an unknown player when it started roughly three decades ago, but through an aggressive expansion plan and a wellspring of government support, it has emerged to be the single largest manufacturer of telecommunications networking equipment in the world, surpassing Ericsson back in 2012.
And the Internet is not the wellspring of such activity; it has always been with us.
The music industry is a harsh, cruel business at the best of times, but it seems particularly so in black music if only because – from Detroit, MI to Kingston, Jamaica to Bow, E3 – there is such an overflowing wellspring of talent that it can often seem arbitrary who gets to succeed and who never gets the break.
