Country Music: Too Much Freedom Loving?

Human Events ^ | May 16, 2009 | L. Brent Bozell III

[oyez]

There was rebellion in county music long before rock n roll.

[familyop]

Yeah, right. ...Dixie Chicks, Merle Haggard,... Many musicians of all kinds are immoral and anti-American. Some are immoral and only pretend to be patriotic. The old western music was alright, though, IMO.

I applaud the few patriotic and moral musicians of various kinds.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article] Maybe du Lac just doesn't like this particular niche audience.

DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!

No more calls, please, no more calls......

[lentulusgracchus]

Of course now I’m stuck in Minnesota.....

Don't be too tough on Minnesotans. After only a couple of generations in Alaska, they brought forth Sarah Palin.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Proof positive. When you dump a Diana for a horse something has to be wrong.

[Biggirl]

Plus it is the number 1 music format for radio. Overall, number 2 after talk/news.

[Biggirl]

There are some good country singers out there, Charlie Daniels is one, also not all country folks are immoral.

[Biggirl]

I found two good stations, WDSY FM, Pittsburgh and one in Detroit believe it or not, WCYD FM. Excellent country stations via internet streaming. Plus the latter just had a major downtown hoedown concert weekend.

[Biggirl]

Plus country is America on soundtrack. Just take a look at a recent song called “Shutting Detroit Down” by John Rich.

[TexasRepublic]

I”d love to hear that poofter complain about a cowboy boot up his ass.

[TChris]

The song demonized people who supported a war on terror: "It's a sad, sad story when a mother will teach her daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger."

A bit of a sidebar comment: I've noticed the deep-running habit of Lefties to label every facet of conservatism "Hate".

If you will fight to defend your freedom, it's because you are filled with Hate.

If you believe and teach that homosexuality is wrong, it must come from deep hatred.

etc., etc.

repeat, rinse.

[andy58-in-nh]

 

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[andy58-in-nh]

I've noticed the deep-running habit of Lefties to label every facet of conservatism "Hate".

Are you familiar with the psychological phenomenon of "projection"? No one is more full of hatred for their fellow human beings than a Liberal. They all love Mankind, of course; it's just people they cannot stand.

[Clemenza]

Nothing wrong with making an honest living putting up with a-sholes such as myself upset that they don’t carry ammo when I need it. But, I am not a Wal Mart clerk, so the syrupy pap doesn’t appeal to me. Country music has become FEMINIZED.

[familyop]

"There are some good country singers out there, Charlie Daniels is one,..."

Agreed. There must be a few, and Daniels is pretty good. I don't frequent saloons, don't drink much at all, don't socialize with loose women and don't do drugs. I just don't care much for a lot of the newer ("contemporary") stuff (as of the '70s), mostly because...I worked security in four different dance hall clubs when younger and more foolish. ...crying drunks and crying songs.

"...also not all country folks are immoral."

My physical address cannot be found through Google, and no high resolution photos of it are available.

[Melas]

Country music is the second most popular format behind talk radio, but it’s rather misleading. Rock and Roll is by far the most popular format with more listeners than country and talk combined, but current classifications break rock up into multiple categories.

Example: Amongst the country stations available here we have one that plays “Today’s Best Country” and one that plays “Traditional Country” (read oldies) but both count as country when tallying the format results. Rock on the other hand is split into adult alternative, adult contemporary, pop, classic rock, alternative, dance, heavy metal, et al. It’s so bad that you’ll go crazy trying to figure out the difference between adult contemporary and pop or alternative and adult alternative.

BTW, I’ll take Kanye West over country any day. Of course that’s not saying much. I’ll take cats mating over country music.

[Fiji Hill]

What other genre of music celebrates traditional American activities and the men and women of the Armed Forces that help protect that way of life? What other genre of music celebrates and mourns those who die in that cause?

Some of my favorite country-western tunes:

• God, Please Protect America--Jimmy Osborne (1950)
• The Fiery Bear--Tex Ritter (1950)
• They Locked God Outside the Iron Curtain--Wesley Tuttle (1952)
• Advice to Joe [Stalin--that he risks nuclear war if he messes with the US]--Ray Acuff (1950)
• When They Drop the Atomic Bomb--Jackie doll & His Pickled Peppers (1951)
• Old Soldiers Never Die--Gene Autry (1951)
• I'm No Communist--LuBelle & Scotty (1952)
• Stalin Kicked the Bucket--Ray Anderson (1953)
• The Red Deck of Cards--Tex Ritter (1954)
• No, No, Joe--Luke the Drifter (1950)

[Fiji Hill]

A bit of a sidebar comment: I've noticed the deep-running habit of Lefties to label every facet of conservatism "Hate".

And, of course, they practice what they preach. Notice how loving and accepting the Left has been of Miss California.

[Eagle Eye]

Wow. Got to admit I’ve never even heard of those songs.

[Fiji Hill]

These songs came into my collection over a period of several years. Some of them, including the two Tex Williams records, are in 78 rpm format, and the others are either on vinyl LP or cassette. I had to send to Holland to get a copy of "Stalin Kicked the Bucket" by Ray Anderson, one of my all-time favorite country-western songs.

Most of these songs are probably in digital format today, although it might take a lot of searching to find them.

Here are a few more:

• Atomic Power--Fred Kirby, 1946 (a tribute to the A-bomb that was covered by numerous artists)
• When That Hell Bomb Falls--Fred Kirby, 1950 (Fred wasn't so enthusiastic about the H-bomb as he was about the A-bomb)
• The Death of Joe Stalin--Buddy Hawk & His Buddies, 1953
• Doug MacArthur--Roy Acuff, 1951
• The Ballad of Francis Gary Powers--Red River Dave, 1960