Notice: when you lose country music...you're a goner

[valarltd]

It's not just fringe guys like Steve Earle and James McMurtrie speaking out anymore. It's not the easily-ignored, heavily vilified Dixie Chicks.

It's Merle Haggard, Mr. Jingoist Okie from Muskogee himself singing about Rebuild America First
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOO3pF2ydCM
embedded under cut

And it's not Merle singing it, but he wrote it, and you can find him doing it at launch.com
"That's the News." The video is hooped, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MegvP3ypuy4

Darryl Worely has apparently recanted his previous position of Iraq=9/11 from "Have you forgotten?" and moved to "I just came back from a war."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwpO8Q1u4Ss

And of course, Kris Kristofferson's "In the News"
http://www.kriskristofferson.com/news/
(not embeddable)

"Burning up the atmosphere and cutting down the trees
The billion dollar bombing of a nation on it's knees
Anyone not marching to their tune they call it treason
Everyone says God is on his side."

Comments

[sailorcelestial.livejournal.com]

While it's great to see a legend like Merle Haggard saying we should focus on ourselves first, unfortunately I don't think Darryl Worely's stance has changed that much at all. That song doesn't seem to be a turn around from "Have You Forgotten." All it really does is recognize the life-changing effects war has on soldiers... and tells us we should care a lot more about what happens to them. There's no commentary on the war itself, only on people's perceptions. I'd have to say Worely still supports the war, he's just not as vocal about demanding everyone else support it as well.

Darryl Worely and Toby Keith are the two country music artists that have "suffered" from my personal boycott of them. Because I'm not like the throngs of morons who got the Dixie Chicks taken off the radio. When a song by Worley or Keith came on, I just turned the station. But I can't listen to the Dixie Chicks on the radio because the vast majority of country music listeners weren't thinking for themselves and went batshit.

I bought the newest Dixie Chicks CD. Take THAT, American sheep.

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

See, I'm the other way. I don't mind people objecting to the war when they do it intelligently. What I do object to is obnoxious people. ;-)

But then, I never liked the Dixie Chick from the get go. ;-) And...umm...though I do like Toby Keith (sort of) and Darryl Worely, the only Country CDs I've gotten are Rascal Flatts and Lonestar. ;-) Along with a couple singles I bought to make music vids to.

[sailorcelestial.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least you didn't like the DC from the get go. You weren't one of their die-hard fans that suddenly had a turn around just because Natalie Maines expressed her opinion (agreed she might have found some other way to do so?), and proceeded to burn and/or stomp their CDs into the ground. I respect that.

Rascal Flatts, yay! Lonestar, I love. They have some incredible harmonies.

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

Oh, they do and that's what I love. :-)

I want the new Rascal Flatts CD, but what few CDs I've gotten lately have been David Arkenstone and Gary Stadler because I can use them at work. I work in the Activities Dept of a nursing home and use those CDs for my Sensory Group with the lower functioning residents. :-)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I <3 the "Mr. Mom" video.

"Rewind Barney for the 18th time"
yep, been there.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

This would be why I listen to Outlaw country and boycott Clear Channel entirely. (the boycott started the day I tried 2 country and 2 pop stations and got Shania Twain on all 4 doing the SAME SONG)

I dunno about Worely. I like his voice and some of his work. (I did a Han/Luke vid to "I miss my friend")

Keith is exactly what he calls himself: white trash with money. And that's not a compliment.