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

[the-willow.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

Two people of colour in one music video. A country video? I was just getting pissed off that that Gretchen Wilson has a song where she talks about 'being for the creatures' and a black man shows up on screen. Politically Uncorrect - yes, I think so indeed.

I blink a lot.

I know the bigger issue is that this war is my generations Vietnam and horribly so.

But I'm still going 'a female soldier, being active, who is also a woman of color?! And a country song remembering First Nations Peoples? OMG'

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Some of the newer country is a little less pale in their video making, but there are always idiots.