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]

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.