Posted on 04/01/2009 8:34:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There’s no screaming on the first great song of the bailout era. No audible rage. No tears. Instead, on “Shuttin’ Detroit Down,” the country star John Rich, singing evenly, sounds perfectly levelheaded, as if he’d thought through his position thoroughly and acquired the peace of the righteous:
I see all these big shots whining on my evening news
About how they’re losing billions and it’s up to me and you
To come running to
The rescue
“The song is not depressing,” Mr. Rich said last week, in an interview in the rooftop bar of a hotel in Gramercy Park. “The song is defiant.”
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Mr. Rich sees the song as being in the us-versus-them tradition of “Okie From Muskogee,” the 1969 semisatire of country life by Merle Haggard, with whom Mr. Rich recently crossed paths.
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You want a country song about cars, how about Johnny Bond’s, Hot Rod Lincoln?
My daddy taught me in this country everyone’s the same
You work hard for your dollar and you never pass the blame
When it don’t go your way
Now I see all these big shots whining on my evening news
About how their losing billions and its up to me and you
To come running to the rescue
Well, pardon me if I don’t shed a tear
There selling make believe and we don’t buy that here
Great tune!
“The song is defiant.”
I agree Mr Rich. Time for Americans to become defiant.
"They're proppin' Detroit (and the UAW) up...."
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