I've got it: Boycott FAUX Country Music...now and forever.

[autorank]

Faux Country music is the Bush voters national pass time. They live for this shit. They embed their pathetic messages of faux family, manliness, and god in the songs and they shove it down the unsuspecting throats of Wal-Mart Nation. They reinforce their legitimacy through about 15 country music award shows a year. It's enough to make you hurl.

I say enough! already!

Spread the word: Faux Country music causes brain damage! This can only be reversed by stopping the habit.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about pre xtian Cash & Jennings, etc. I mean a hopped up Johnny Cash in Folsom Prison was a thing of beauty. How far we've fallen! We now have 'cowboy' singers who don't know when to take their f'ing hats off and who look like they'd be perfectly comfortable cruising the docks.

STOP THE MADNESS. BOYCOTT FAUX COUNTRY MUSIC

Corporate America controls the media and we get manufactured news.
Corporate America now controls the voting machines and we get manufactured elections.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

[Syrinx]

1. But what about the good stuff?

Kasey Chambers, Shelby Lynne, Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, etc.? That's some good stuff.

[freetobegay]

2. Actually hip hop causes brain damage

Which of course causes stupidity! That is why I have no problem boycotting that crap.

[democracyindanger]

3. You need to listen to some Steve Earle

[The Great Escape]

4. Repukes Tried To Comandeer Johnny Cash's Memory...

The songs of Johnny Cash--"the Man in Black"--were beacons of light for those who were unjustly locked up, kicked down, and knocked around. He sang from his heart for the poor, the imprisoned, and the oppressed.

And, as John Nichols wrote in his Nation weblog after Cash's death last year, "Though he was not known as an expressly political artist, Cash waded into the controversies of his times with a passion. Like the US troops in Vietnam who idolized him, he questioned the wisdom of that war. And in the mid-1960s, at the height of his success, he released an album that challenged his country's treatment of Native Americans."

But it was his songs which really marked him as a man of the people. He took sides in his songs, and he preferred the side of those imprisoned by the law--and by poverty and hard luck.

Yet, this Tuesday the GOP and the American Gas Association, a network of 154 utility multinationals, are shamelessly trying to appropriate the singer-songwriter's legacy by hosting an exclusive "celebration" of Cash for the Republican delegation from Tennessee inside the elite corridors of Sotheby's auction house.



http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?pid=1705

[Cobalt Violet]

7. Did you hear his cover song of NIN's Hurt and ...

Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus?

Very good stuff.

[autorank]

10. I saw "Door to Door Maniac" at a drive in in 1966!!! Cash starred.

I love Johnny Cash and you are absolutely right, he was a man of the people. When I got Folsom Prison Blues it was like a wake up call. Just because guys were in jail didn't mean they were inhuman. Then I saw an ad for "Door to Door Maniac" playing at a drive in. What a trip. Cash was a door to door salesman (common at that time) who was, get this, actually a serial killer. He'd get in the front door, have a seat, whip out his guitar and sing a song that went something like "You've got three minutes to live, then you're gonna die..." until he got to the end and he'd kill the hapless consumer. It was transcendent! My music hero as a stone cold killer. Kind of killed the teen romance that night but it was worth it. Don't think the Repugs will be showing that one on the country network soon.

I'd like to respond to more of these but I'm saving up for my 1000th post wherein I shall reveal the truth behind the JFK assassination.

Corporate America controls the media and we get manufactured news.
Corporate America now controls the voting machines and we get manufactured elections.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

[lgardengate]

5. Sorry, I kinda like it....especially the oldies .....

But then i like oldies music in every catagory. Even Judy Garland from the 30s.

[President Jesus]

6. Toby Keith, Amy Grant wrote checks to Bush

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bush_vs_kerry.php

While we're at it, boycott NASTARD and pro golf!

[Jack Schitt]

8. Done.

:)

I've never listened to it anyways. :D

[bloodyjack]

9. frankly, you're wrong

there's a lot of great country music out there that doesn't bear the taint of Nashville; and it just so happens that, on the whole, the...uh...unwashed masses don't listen to good country/Americana.

I refer you to the Silver Jews, Will Oldham, Gillian Welch (who is more bluegrass than country I guess), Loretta Lynn, Uncle Tupelo, early Wilco, Mekons...of course a lot of the aforementioned stuff is kind of admixed with indie rock.

[autorank]

12. I amend my remarks to : Boycott Faux Country Music

Your comments are worth my 999th post. You are correct. In fact I'm a big Outlaws fan and I dragged my middle aged ass to the DC 9:30 Club to see My Morning Jacket, maybe the best rock band (IMHO) playing today.

So I'm corrected and not silent while I ponder a suitable topic for 1000 (in addition to the JFK thing).

CORRECTION (WITH APOLOGIES): BOYCOTT FAUX COUNTRY MUSIC

Corporate America controls the media and we get manufactured news.
Corporate America now controls the voting machines and we get manufactured elections.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

[Oddly Stevenson]

14. Buddy Miller is also

a great country artist, check out Poison Love if you're not familiar with it. On the other hand, Kenny Chesney, et al......I don't care about their politics, I just don't wanna hear 'em.

And Gillian Welch's "Look at Miss Ohio" seems particularly relevant now......

[Winamericaback]

11. Dixie Chicks

Maybe we should cut them some slack?
I mean they were faced with RW ridicule for comments against Bush and refused to apologize. Also they were on the Concert for Change Tour.
I personally like Natalie Maines and ever since Toby Keith turned into a retarted idiot I have stopped listening to him.

[Bridget Burke]

13. Sorry, no.

Most of current commercial country music is crap. But I'll continue to like the real stuff.

[kokomo]

15. Even worse are the Country Radio disc jockeys...so many RW jerks!

While scanning my car radio the other day, I stopped to hear a plea from a mother calling into a country station. She hadn't seen her son since he left home at age 18 and he is now 22. He was to have finished his enlistment contract, but she just heard that he is returning to Iraq for yet ANOTHER deployment due to a "stop-loss" order. It sounded like a plea to keep her son home.

She didn't request a song, BUT the disc jockey then immediately dedicated "American Soldier" to her and her son.

And I will always do my duty no matter what the price
I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice
Oh, and I don't want to die for you but if dyin's asked of me
I'll bear that cross with honor 'cause freedom don't come free.
---Toby Keith

Somehow, I don't think this was the song she wanted to hear. She sounded distraught

[elperromagico]

16. Faux country isn't country. It's just pop with steel guitars and fiddles.

Give me some Johnny Cash, Hank Williams (Senior, not Junior... never Junior), Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Marty Robbins...

I couldn't care less about Kenny Chesney's sexy tractor.

[Old and In the Way]

17. Cash is Cool ; Gatlin's a Tool.

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