For those liberal country music fans, here's a hit for you

[ShaneGR]

http://www.peace-not-war.org/Music/BillyBragg/

[Fenris]

1. From a Briton, too.

[RoyGBiv]

2. Thanks

I'm not much of a country music fan myself, but I have several acquaintances who are. This will be a good nudge for them.

[ShaneGR]

3. Yeah, from what I gather Bragg is actually a name

I don't know how big of a name, but he's a well-known country music artist.

[ComerPerro]

4. Cool

Good stuff.

Funny that you mention "liberal country music fans".

I hear ya.

I have been getting into country music more and more, partially because I have been expanding my tastes in all directions.

I LOVE the Dixie Chicks...

But there is just so much right wing BS sprinkled in there...

It gets frustrating sometimes.

[RoyGBiv]

6. Dixie Chicks

While not much of a country fan, I have always had a liking for the Dixie Chicks, partly because they break the mold of female country artists. IOW, it's not all this "I love my man, even though he's a drunk and abuses me..." crap. "Earl Had to Die" and "Ready to Run" are two of my favorites for that reason.

I have extremely varied musical tastes, but I was raised on my mom's records, which were largely 60's and 70's rock and roll. One plane of the country music scene nowadays sorta plays with that. Skynard and Exile used to be rock, but now they're country.

Anyway, after them standing up and saying what they did about Bush, my admiration was solidified.

[ComerPerro]

8. Red Orange Yellow ...

Haven't seen your screen name before.

Cool!

Anyway,

have you heard their latest album, Home ?

Its really good. Has Chris Theele (sp) of Nickle Creek, arguably one of the best mandolin players around, one one of the tracks. Great stuff all around.

[RoyGBiv]

10. Latest Album

I've heard a couple songs. They're good. The keep maturing, unlike so many flash-in-the-pans nowadays.

I need to go buy the album. You still won't hear them on the radio around here, and I've only heard some digital versions that friends had.

As for my screen name, I've only been here since the beginning of April. I still have a few problems navigating the messaging system, so I jump around a lot from thread to thread, just kinda offering comments here and there.

[ComerPerro]

11. Apparently the newer versions of the album

Have a bonus feature which is Cherryl Crowe performing Landslide... or so I have heard. Not sure.

But I agree, they have definately mature. Natalie's voice has gotten much stronger and much better.

I think you will find that DU is quite user-friendly, and very easy to navigate, once you get the hang of it.

Then, I am sorry to say, you will become hopelessly addicted.

You will probably have 2,000 posts by June.

;)

[RoyGBiv]

14. Addicted

I'm already hopelessly addicted. :-)

I'm just used to Usenet and using Agent, which has a different sort of threading system for messages ... and offline reading/replying. It's the web interface that trips me up, but of all the web interfaces I've seen, DU's is better than most, imo.

[Christ was Socialist]

5. Toby Keith is my favorite liberal country star

Lmao

[RoyGBiv]

7. Draft Toby

If ever there was an individual begging to be drafted, he's it.

[ComerPerro]

9. He would be tolerable if not for "We'll stick a boot in your ass..."

Whatever the fuck that song is called.

I liked some of his earlier stuff, when he first made a name for himself, and I find his lyrics amusing. You know, typical "fun" country songs.

He's got a terrible voice, but he is a pretty decent writer. Prolific, definately.

If it weren't for his right wing songs and the sometimes present right wing attitude, I think I could like him.

But, he did tour with Willie Nelson. So, he can't be all bad, right?

[wabeewoman]

12. For being so supposedly

'rebel' country I think he really caters to what he thinks the public wants to hear. His latest CD is called shock and ya'll (which I think is REALLY classless). I heard him in an interview say he didn't support the war but didn't think he knew all that the president (sic) knew. He does have some fun songs and he doesn't offend me like Daryl Worley who cut a song tying Iraq and Bin Lauden together. Allen Jackson is one of my favorites("Where were you when the world stopped turning" is a great song). The trouble with country music is it seems like Clear Channel owns all the stations so you have to put up with pro-bush crap. BTW Keith has a cute song " I'll never smoke weed with Wilie again" on his latest cd

[ComerPerro]

13. The DJs on one of the Country stations here in KC shocked the shit outta m

me.

I woke up one morning and they were making fun of Bush!

For maybe five minutes!

And it was hilarious!

[RoyGBiv]

17. Where were you...

Yes, that song really, really, really gets to me.

Up until that time I had lived through a relatively sheltered period of history. Sure there were things that happened. I remember Reagan being shot, the first shuttle explosion ... a few other things, but nothing that compared with the kinds of things my mother and grandmother had gone through. Grandma remembered the aftermath of WWI and a lot of amputees and people with severe lung problems, what she was doing and where she was when the stock market crashed, even though she said it didn't mean much to her since they were already so poor. She remembered the same for Dec. 7, 1941, and both her an my mother were well acquainted with the memories from the day Kennedy was killed...

I hadn't ever been able to completely relate to the way they felt when they talked about such things. And then 9/11 happened, and now, even as I type, it's so horribly vivid. I recognized what was happening, the depth of it, and wrote down my every thought that day just to make sure I'd remember it, but I don't know that I had to bother. It comes like a flood.

Anyway, when I heard that song, it made me tear up, and it still does. He captured that so well...

Now, having said that, I have a friend in Tennessee who says he knows some of Alan Jackson's family. According to this guy, he's kinda on the rocks with them ... doesn't seem to appreciate his roots in the way a traditional Southerner should. I think I know what that means, but I might not. Sounds weird, but "traditional Southerner" means a lot of different things to different people.


Don't know why I felt the need to write all that, but I did, so there it is...

[Christ was Socialist]

15. is this the one?

Courtesy Of The Red White And Blue (The Angry American)
Written by Toby Keith.
(© Tokeco Tunes.)
From "Unleashed", © 2002, Dreamworks.
(This transcript taken from a live recording which may differ slightly from the studio release)

American girls and American guys, will always stand up and salute.
We'll always recognize, when we see ol' glory flying,
There's a lot of men dead,
So we can sleep in peace at night when we lay down our heads.
My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye,
But he flew a flag out in our yard 'til the day that he died.
He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me.
To grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

Now this nation that I love is fallin' under attack.
A mighty sucker-punch came flying in from somewhere in the back.
Soon as we could see clearly through our big black eye,
Man, we lit up your world like the fourth of July.

Hey, Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly and it's gonna be hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell.
And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you.
Ah, brought to you, courtesy of the red, white and blue.

Instrumental break.

Oh, justice will be served and the battle will rage:
This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage.
An' you'll be sorry that you messed with the U.S. of A.
'Cos we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way.

Hey, Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly and it's gonna be hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell.
And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you.
Ah, brought to you, courtesy of the red, white and blue.

Oh, oh.
Of the red, white and blue.
Oh, hey, oh.
Of my Red, White and Blue

[ComerPerro]

16. Yeah, that would be it

Because, we really took revenge for 9/11....

I guess that is why we punished Saudi Arabia and brought Osama to justice, eh Toby??

[Christ was Socialist]

18. Bill Maher

was doing parodies of toby for weeks at the opening of his show, his chracter was called kobe teeth. He was a racist, homophobic, jingoistic madman. i found the lyrics

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GEORGE W. BUSH : 'Already, the Kaye report identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment''

BILL MAHER : Hello, I'm country singer Kobe Teeth, and when I first heard President Bush say those words, 'related program activities and significant amounts of equipment,' it made my blood boil. So I wrote this song.

Well, old lady Liberty won't stand idly by while you piss on her leg and you spit in her eye. So let the word travel forth from Baghdad to Tikrit, we got an ice-cold mug 'a whoop-ass with a chaser of shit. I'm pissed off about those damn 'related program activities and significant amounts of equipment.'

You can pawn my old guitar, take a leak in my beer, you can call my son a left-wing limp-wristed queer. You can bend me over, try to jerk me off, but there's a chip on my shoulder you can never knock off. The thing that makes me maddest are your freedom-hating proclivities. And your weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment. Significant amounts of equipment and a shitload of objects to be named later.

You know, I've got a program activity for you, it's called kickin' your ass! How about that, muther-trucker. Here's your significant amount of equipment! Check out these guns, you rag heads. Hold me back, boys! Hold me back!



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BILL MAHER : Hello, I'm Kobe Teeth. Last week, I thought I was the most P.O.'d I'd ever been about those 'Related Program Activities.' But this week, along come three more words that made me even madder: 'Unrehearsed Wardrobe Malfunction.' And I wrote this song about it.

'Well, my six-year-old son saw an African booby. Now I haven't been this angry since they shot Jack Ruby. Let the word ring out across the U.S. of A., keep your motherfuckin' tit inside your busted bustier. I'm pissed off about this goddamn halftime wardrobe malfunction.

'Oh, you can spoon with my wife and press your cock against her rear, you can take all three Judds and take a shit on John Deere. You can bum my last smoke and piss in my cola, but I don't want to see your big, brown, pierced areola. We're all just sick and tired of the Jackson family's dysfunction. And your totally unplanned, accidental, unrehearsed wardrobe malfunction'wardrobe malfunction''

I thought you were in control, Janet Jackson. What happened to that? You know, you make me want to hit the Jesus Juice, girl. What the hell was that around your nipple anyway? A napkin ring? God, I've seen better tits on a she-cow. What about the children, that's my question, America, what about the children? God, I'm mad, boys! Hold me back! Every week this happens to me. I just get madder and madder!

[bigbillhaywood]

20. Makes me think twice about Willie

[charlie]

21. Aw, don't harsh on Willie

My ears don't even recognize Country as music, but I've got massive regard for Willie. But, as long as you're kicking patriotic showboaters in the ass, save some energy for Lee Greenwood. I'm beyond sick of being saturated with his "where at least I know I'm freeeeee" treacle for more than a decade.

[bigbillhaywood]

22. My buddy came up with a parody of that song in junior high, but I'm sure

I would be banned from DU if I repeated it here. Funny shit, though. And if Willie's so cool, why is he touring with Toby?

[charlie]

23. Wellll

I'll be honest, and tell you I have no idea. And it does annoy me that he's sharing a tour with that jackass. But since I think Willie is one of those rare magical, mystical, human beings, I'm willing to indulge notions that he might have forgiven a posturing hardass who found that he bit off more than he could handle.

[DeepModem Mom]

19. I think most of country music serves the Bushies' goals --

I enjoy listening to it, but the words are very often about celebrating a life of limited aspirations. That leaves the profits to Bush and pals. Years ago, Poppy made a big show of supposedly being a country music fan, along with his well-publicized fondness for pork rinds.