Some fans not buying country star Garth Brooks reason for not playing inauguration Country music
Source: Kansas City Star
Brooks, who played at the 2008 inauguration of President Barack Obama, said its always an honor to serve.
This whole presidential thing, weve got one going out pray for him and his family. And for the president going in pray for him and his family to guide this nation, Brooks said. Love and unity, thats what its all about. In the immortal words of Martin Luther King, the most durable power that weve known is love. It will always be that way.
I cant thank the Obamas enough for serving this country, and may God hold Trumps hand in the decisions that he makes in this countrys name as well.
Some of Brooks fans, however, werent happy with his decision or his explanation.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article127125079.html
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)jingoistic xenophobes.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,776 posts)Country first? But only when the Rs are in charge, right?
paleotn
(18,012 posts)I grew up in Nashville, and the majority of my cohort hated it and still do. Music of the great unwashed. As Tom Petty put it, country is a crappy rock band with a fiddle.
7962
(11,841 posts)Neither is my preference.
melman
(7,681 posts)He was lamenting the quality of current commercial country compared to the great stuff of the past.
So when he says 'rock band with a fiddle' he wasn't bashing country as a whole, he was saying the country he hears now isn't really country to his ears.
paleotn
(18,012 posts)...but I like my context better. Johnny Cash had about as much musical talent as a stump. Maybe familiarity bred contempt in me, but I cannot stand the genre old or new.
MountainMama
(237 posts)Johnny Cash was a great songwriter and a very intelligent man. He was extremely talented.
Current country music is garbage and has been for years.
rockfordfile
(8,709 posts)titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)I'm a country music fan and I'm pretty sure I am not a racist, ignorant, jingoistic, xenophobe. Nor is my wife.
7962
(11,841 posts)The hypocrisy of some of the DU members amazes me sometimes
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)I know there are certainly some big redneck confederate flag wavers at country concerts...and I stay away from the more hardcore stuff. But I really love the more rocken country like the Zac Brown Band (who travels around the country sourcing local organic foods and then serves about 300 dinner before each concert. Called and Eat and Greet.) I also like Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban's guitar work is amazing. The Dixie Chicks.
7962
(11,841 posts)This was live. She hits notes that would make Celine, Mariah, whoever stand up and cheer. Just the build to the end of the song is great.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Were it actually ok as you allege, it would not have been criticize more than once on this thread.
Methinks you're getting rather comfortable hanging from the cross you've constructed... just as long as you don't pretend it's oppression as well as martyrdom.
7962
(11,841 posts)I'm unable to read minds or see the future.
You havent noticed the eagerness of many here to insult the entire region of the South time & time again in different threads?
Then you havent been paying attention!
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Logical fallacy noted.
Marengo
(3,477 posts)The area of Arizona you lived? If so, perhaps you need to edit that statement to add these qualifiers. As it currently stands, it seems to suggest all country music fans.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)You certainly like moving the goalposts, regardless of whether you notice it.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)But thanks for playing. Your flamebait is also duly noted.
IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)the narrower the mind.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)they are some of the most radical feminist hippies you'll ever meet. And country fans.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Marengo
(3,477 posts)Bayard
(22,228 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)dionysus
(26,467 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)WhiteTara
(29,732 posts)and a couple of hotels.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)can we go ahead and actually give Garth books credit for not taking an easy payday? He knows damn well that the country audience is easily weaponized, as his friends the Dixie chicks could tell him. it might be easy to say oh he's got money, what sort of courage does he require?
The same sort of courage it might take no that any number of would be George Zimmerman's, or Dylan roofs might be putting his head or his wife's in the crosshairs. All don't tell me that's not a reality, because the GOP is very effective of making folk heroes out of assassins. sadly it sure doesn't help that a lot of country artist will probably be very happy to join in the dog pile.
if we want support, we need to give support, and as far as I'm concerned, Garth need support. if not, we're going to wonder how come no one is willing to take a risk with us.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,727 posts)This.
Thanks.
Cha
(298,014 posts)That right there is enough for the brainwashed idiots to hate on Brooks.
Cha
(298,014 posts)oh well.
TeamPooka
(24,292 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)underpants
(183,007 posts)In the article it mentions that the Cincinnati gig got extended to two weekends.
He is just printing money at this point.
Good for him. I don't buy the excuse either but I think it's pretty obvious that he is soft peddling this.
Judi Lynn
(160,662 posts)catbyte
(34,534 posts)supporters for years.
IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)ck4829
(35,096 posts)We saw their (lack of) judgment in 2003 and we see it again today.
We really should start using this group as a barometer of how bad something can get.
Because this is just another thing that doesn't make me too enthusiastic about the Trump presidency.
Nash Teeth
(57 posts)Most of his fans are beyond the age of buying much music. Today's "country music fans" are mostly millennials and many of them don't care much about politics. Garth doesn't get much airplay on today's "country" radio.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Garth, I believe, is easily one of the better performers.
These same fans who excoriated the Dixie Chicks would probably have a stroke if they ever heard "The Man in Black" by Johnny Cash.
DinahMoeHum
(21,829 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 18, 2017, 01:39 PM - Edit history (1)
TNNurse
(6,931 posts)The brief image of the "stars and bars" bothers me. This great- great granddaughter of a confederate soldier ( I can take you to his grave and show you the marker) WOULD NEVER DISPLAY ANY PART OF THAT FLAG.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)I don't think what sort of music you like should be a litmus test of what party you are supporting.
I'm not a huge country fan, not the modern stuff at least, but like some of it and bluegrass. Ralph Stanley even did an Obama commercial.
I don't even think your politics should dictate whether I listen to you or not - although I do have a hard time with even hearing Ted Nugent anymore because of all the just mean things he has said
The more we pigeonhole somebody because of where they live, or what kind of music they listen to, or their religion, or what sort of a job they do, the more we play up that difference, the more we allow fence straddlers to fall into the other camp.
I really see too much of this on the DU. To much of the sort of elitism that helped us lose last time and divides our country. We need to keep the door open for people to come in to our party because of our issues. Not push them out because they have a difft culture. We understand this far as immigrants. Not so much rural people.
Bayard
(22,228 posts)Yes:
"I really see too much of this on the DU. Too much of the sort of elitism that helped us lose last time and divides our country. We need to keep the door open for people to come in to our party because of our issues. Not push them out because they have a different culture."
The next four years are going to be our best shot at bringing Trump voters over to the light. It may be out of desperation, but we should take support any way we can get it. Not push them away. Think of 2020. We have to start now.
And music--I like everyone from the Dixie Chicks to the Goo Goo Dolls.
Tikki
(14,562 posts)no country music fan is coming to our side just because we like their music.
I know a dozen current bands you or they will hate and that is fine by me.
Tikki
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,776 posts)to an elite.
There is just as much "elitism" by rural people toward non-rural people as vice-versa. Let's call it cultural snobbery. Ever listen to Sarah Palin? They think they're the "real" Americans.
I have many relatives in various rural areas and most of them and their neighbors and friends think they're better than "city folk." They all love country music and roll their eyes at the music I like.
7962
(11,841 posts)FrodosNewPet
(495 posts)Therefore, rock and roll sucks as well.
I think I will fire up some "Hipster Hillbilly, Rock, and Reggae" on "The Dewberry Jam" (http://am1670.org) and forget about how elitists are driving away voters by giving them an upturned nose instead of a hand reaching out.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,297 posts)his wife's Food Network program.