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Democrats to reclaim country music
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| November 20, 2007
| Toby Harnden
Posted on 11/20/2007 6:33:56 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: HungarianGypsy
the FM version of “Uneasy Rider” is one of his best efforts
101
posted on
11/20/2007 8:56:10 AM PST
by
sticker
To: wideawake
Rap music doesnt appeal to most country music lovers. I enjoy both genres very much.
I don't care if you lick windows,
take the special bus
or occasionally pee on yourself...
You hang in there sunshine,
you're special.
:)
102
posted on
11/20/2007 8:56:52 AM PST
by
Chuck54
(Democrat's target audience - low income, low IQ, low self-esteem. They're zeroed in.)
To: Zakeet
The Maverics are the only name I recognized. I think of them is married to a Dixie Chick, but I could be wrong.
103
posted on
11/20/2007 8:56:54 AM PST
by
sweet_diane
(Adoption, the beautiful alternative.)
To: Chuck54
They think the blue state democrats are going to buy their country music albums....ROTFL!
104
posted on
11/20/2007 8:59:14 AM PST
by
greyfoxx39
("Managers are the people the leaders hire” Fred Thompson.)
To: raccoonradio
Anything that becomes a Kris Kristofferson movie is best forgotten
105
posted on
11/20/2007 8:59:31 AM PST
by
sticker
To: Bitsy; colorcountry; Utah Binger
What are they going to sing about? Every One Should Hate America? Damn with the family? my dog was republican so I shot him? Who need troops when we have the UN? Tax us to the Maxus? Its Good to be Gay? My Mother the Lesbian and poud of it? Islam is just another name for love? Yeah, that will go over well with Country music lovers.
106
posted on
11/20/2007 9:02:45 AM PST
by
greyfoxx39
("Managers are the people the leaders hire” Fred Thompson.)
To: HungarianGypsy
And we all know how folk music is a bastion of the Right!! /sarcasm! ;>)
107
posted on
11/20/2007 9:03:03 AM PST
by
Primetimedonna
( It's SAN FRANCISCO, not Frisco. Charter member of the San Francisco Snowflakes)
To: AFreeBird
**And the Grand Ole Opry just invited Charlie Daniels to join them. Quite an honor. And Charlie would have no trouble telling the dems exactly what he thinks of them and their anti-American attitudes.***
I remember when Skeeter Davis came out against the VN war years ago while on the Grand Ole Opry. She even released a song from the Bily Jack movie.
To: Girlene
If you know anyone who has been through AA you know what I mean, at least the first few years of it.
109
posted on
11/20/2007 9:10:10 AM PST
by
normy
(Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
To: Zakeet
I have lived in Nashville and worked in the music business for 21 years and I only know of about 5 if them.
110
posted on
11/20/2007 9:12:26 AM PST
by
Grammy
To: girlangler
I found this about the same time you did I think. See post 110.
We are good....hectic but OK. Just about ready for Thanksgiving.
You?
111
posted on
11/20/2007 9:50:15 AM PST
by
Grammy
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I remember when Skeeter Davis came out against the VN war years ago while on the Grand Ole Opry. She even released a song from the Bily Jack movie. I'm not so much singing the praise of the Grand Ole Opry, but Charlie Daniels. And him getting there is like being inducted into the Hall of Fame for a country musician.
And that being said; and in light of your post; I seriously doubt that they don't know where Charlie's feelings and loyalties lie. [ie., 100% percent American and proud of it!) It's not like he's kept it a secret.
So hooray for CD.
To: dfwgator
I thought they sang about trucks, prison, and getting drunk. You forgot trains and Mama
113
posted on
11/20/2007 12:13:05 PM PST
by
BlueMondaySkipper
(If liberals were merely stupid then the laws of probability would dictate that at least some of thie)
To: Zakeet
More songs about cheatin’ and drinkin’, less about God and country, I guess.
114
posted on
11/20/2007 12:14:18 PM PST
by
Antoninus
(Republicans who support Rudy owe Bill Clinton an apology.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I remember when Skeeter Davis came out against the VN war years ago while on the Grand Ole Opry. I was unaware that she opposed the VN war, but I'm not surprised. I like her song "The End of hte World" (1962), which is thought by some to have been inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis.
To: raccoonradio
Yes and I wonder if CW McCalls Convoy could qualify as rap? Its narrated rather than sung (other than the chorus) That's a good question, although songs featuring a spoken narration are hardly new. Other songs in this tradition include "Talking Union" by the Almanac Singers (1941), "No, No, Joe" by luke the Drifter (1950), "Hot Rod Race" by Arky Shibley, Ramblin' Jimmy Dolan, Tiny Hill, and others (1951), and "Let's Think About Living" by Bob Luman (1960).
To: BlueMondaySkipper
Besides trucks, prison, drinking, trains, and Mama, subjects featured in country/western spongs include the following:
- cars ("Rocket 88" by Bill Haley & the Saddlemen)
- ships ("Seaman's Blues" by Ernest Tubb or "Rainbow at Midnight" by Eddie Dean
- nuclear weapons ("When the Atom Bomb Fell" by Karl & Harty)
- firearms ("Big Iron" by Marty Robbins)
- droughts and dust bowls ("Dusty Skies" by Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys or "Dust" by the Sons of the Pioneers)
- narcotics ("Cocaine Blues" by Roy Hogsed)
- space exploration ("Sputnik" by Jerry Engler & the Four Ekkos)
- space aliens ("Those Flying Saucers" by the Buchanan Brothers)
To: Right Brother
With words like, “large” and “Switch”, the parodies will nearly write themselves.
118
posted on
11/20/2007 8:52:48 PM PST
by
healy61
To: Zakeet
Were in a war and Southerners have a tendency to be patriotic. But a lot of them are beginning to see that patriotism does not mean supporting a bad war.
It’s a great time for these Democrat singers to come out, now that the war is coming at an end in our favor! Just what country fans need, their own singers trying to shove their politics down their throat instead of shutting up and singing! By all means Democrat singers, sell country fans on Hillary (she’s so popular in countryland, I’m sure!!!). For my part, I was a fan of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, and for some reason have lost my taste for hearing both of them. It must be coincidence.
To: Zakeet
Lets see, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Collin Raye, Tracy Byrd, Daryl Worley, Sammy Kershaw, Martina McBride, Sarah Evans, Steve Wariner, Trace Adkins. Yup sound like a group of loyal america hating democrats to me.
120
posted on
11/20/2007 9:08:13 PM PST
by
LukeL
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