Merle Haggard, Rascal Flatts, Loretta Lynn, Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks, Kitty Wells, Julianne Hough, Conway Twitty
There’s been a proliferation, recently, of country songs that can be summarized as “Why don’t we get drunk and screw?” I hope the fad passes quickly ... let’s have some murder ballads!
Toby Keith did a song a while back, “You Shouldn’t Kiss Me Like This”: the song itself was romantic and really sweet, but the video was filthy. I hate when they do that.
seriously, not one mention of David Allan Coe?
Of course, anything by Chinga Chavin.
I can remember that back in the ‘50s a song titled “A Back Street Affair” (can’t remember the singer) was banned on many radio stations because of the subject. No lyrics suggested anything but an extra-marital affair.
I remember some songs, BACK IN 1968, that were so “hot” you had to ask for them at the record store! This one I heard was very racist.
Johnny Rebel – Lookin’ For A Handout
Have you ever been just drivin’ around, and ended up in the colored part of town? And you see an old-time wanderoo Jack with a great big T.V. antenna. Then you look out in the back, you can always see a Cadillac......
I’ll stop right here but I do remember the flip side was KAJUN KKK. And NO! I WILL NOT PROVIDE A LINK!
They left out “The Rodeo Song”... If you haven’t heard it, search it out. Usually heard just before last call in honky tonks. It takes a certain level of alcohol to get the crowd to participate.
“What Goes On When the Sun Goes Down” ~ Ronnie Milsap
“Baby’s Got Her BlueJeans On” ~ Mel McDaniel
Good old oldies...
Country music died years ago. The garbage they call “country” today is nothing more than bubble gum pop. Here’s why 2013 was so bad..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WySgNm8qH-I
“Let me be your salty dog!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW_YGXqQq6c
A good song-writer can be as dirty as he wants.
They left out a couple by Tanya Tucker. Not only was “Would you Lay with Me in a Field of Stone” banned by some country stations, some of the state fairs and such she played would not allow her to sing it.
And “What’s Your Momma’s Name” was banned by some stations because they misunderstood the lyrics.
Some station’s barred Dolly Parton’s “The Bargain Store” because they mistakenly thought it was about a prostitute. I found that odd because there have been so many hit country songs that really were about prostitutes, from “Fancy” to “Bed of Rose’s” to “The Son of Hickory Holler’s Tramp.”
In the good ol’ days you’d get bleeped for hells and damns.
Wells' tune quickly gave voice to married women in American who were fed up with their cheating husbands. Her statement was daring during a time where the music industry was dominated by men.
Actually, Wells' tune was a response song -- to Hank Thompson's Wild Side of Life:
I didn't know God made honky tonk angels
I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one that ever loved you
And went back to the wild side of life
It even uses the same melody...