Country Music Reminds Me of Bush Voters

[SoDesuKa]

I'll admit it. I wasn't all that thrilled with country music to begin with, but now it's so Red States I can hardly listen to it at all. When I'm in a supermarket and they've got twangy guitar music on, it reminds me of the dismay I felt hearing the election returns on November 2nd.

I try to concentrate on the price of pork chops, but the music reminds me that George Bush was re-elected. It should have gone away by now, but this association is hard to shake.

[Left Is Write]

1. You can console yourself -

with the knowledge that Tim McGraw is a Democrat, and with the knowledge that my father is simultaneously a country music fan, an auto-racing fan, AND a highly educated lifelong Democrat who loathes the Shrub as much as we do.

[murielm99]

13. Country artists should be Democrats.

It stands to reason. They sing about the hardships and heartaches of ordinary, working class people.

I am glad to hear Tim McGraw is a Democrat. Is his wife a Democrat, too? We should get some of the country artist Democrats, other than the Dixie Chicks, to speak out more.

[Left Is Write]

16. I completely agree.

Someone on another message board once told me that John Mellencamp is a Democrat because he only SINGS about farming, he isn't actually a farmer himself. :eyes: She then "reminded" me that all the farm states are red states (I guess she's never heard of Minnesota).

I don't know if Faith Hill is a Democrat or not. It would be nice if she is.

[murielm99]

26. She never heard of Illinois, either.

I am in a farming community in blue Illinois.

[Book Lover]

2. Listen to Johnny Cash

and that feeling'll go away

[SmokingJacket]

4. Mr. Cash is a whole other animal.

He was the greatest.

[PragMantisT]

21. AMEN

Can I get an AMEN, brothers and sisters?

[Book Lover]

24. Amen!

I hear that train a-commin', it's rollin' around the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom prison and time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a-rollin' on down to San Antone
When I was just a baby, my mama told me, son
Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns
But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry

I bet there's rich folks eatin' in a fancy dining car
They're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars
But I know I had it coming, I know I can't be free
But those people keep a-movin' and that's what tortures me

Well if that freed me from this prison
and that railroad train was mine
I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line
Far from Folsom prison, that's where I want to stay
And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away

[PragMantisT]

25. Ira Hayes, Ira Hayes

Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Or the Marine that went to war


Cash was the greatest American we never deserved.

[derbstyron]

3. Check out Mary Chapin Carpenter

She *hates* Bush.

[Left Is Write]

6. I heart Mary Chapin Carpenter.

[derbstyron]

11. She's awesome, isn't she?

Although it's debatable if she's country. The radio stations don't play her any more and I've always thought her closer to a pop/folk sort of mix.

Edit: for spelling, as usual.

[Left Is Write]

14. I pushed to play a lot of MCC back in my radio days.

I had to stick mostly to the radio-friendly hits, though, like "I Feel Lucky" and "Passionate Kisses."

In those days, she was getting a lot more airplay on Americana stations than on country stations. I left country radio almost ten years ago, but at that time you either had a "hot country" station playing the cookie-cutter hat acts or you had a "classic country" station playing everything "old" from roots country to Mickey Gilley. There was no room for innovative artists who bucked the cookie cutter trend.

[derbstyron]

17. Ever seen her in concert?

She's the only one I bother to go to anymore. I've seen her, gosh, 6 or 7 times. It's always wonderful; always different.

From one fan to another. :hi:

[Left Is Write]

20. No, I haven't been fortunate enough to see her live.

I'd love to, though!

She's one of my dad's favorites as well.

[illflem]

7. Most country lyrics

are the same old my baby left look how bummed out I am shit.
Gets old fast.

[SoDesuKa]

19. Gets Old Fast

Among hard core country fans, it doesn't seem to get old at all. The names change but the formula doesn't. The stuff I hear now sounds the same as I heard forty years ago. Of course, to them it sounds hip and contemporary . . .

[atldem]

5. My girlfriend loves

country music and is a life long democrat. But I have forbid Toby Keith, Darryl Worly and Brooks and Dunn being played in the house.

[MrScorpio]

8. Try some Willie Nelson too

Not every Texan goes for Shrubya

[Bridget Burke]

9. Well, somebody has to buy Kenny G & John Tesh.

Glad you prefer the more mellow stylings of lite jazz!

I love most kinds of country music (along with numerous other genres). Who knows what kind of dreck you hear in a Yankee supermarket?

[Left Is Write]

10. I'll tell you what we heard this morning. It was bizarre.

First we heard "Both Sides Now" by Judy Collins (which, by the way, is a song I just LOATHE), followed by an orchestral version of "O Tannenbaum," followed immediately by "More Than A Feeling" by Boston.

It was like a sound system with multiple personality disorder.

[SoDesuKa]

12. Dreck

I never thought of Billy Joel as dreck until I found out he was a Republican. Now I think he's a pig.

[Left Is Write]

18. I've been having that problem lately with a lot of celebrities

and artists.

As soon as I find out someone is a Republican (or worse - a vocal Bush supporter), I lose all respect for them.

[SoDesuKa]

22. Joy of Discovery

There is true joy in discovering that somebody you secretly suspected was a Bushite is actually an ardent progressive.

[PragMantisT]

23. and a drunk driver

the party of personal irresponsibility.

[Scrooge]

15. 2 words

Dixie Chicks. Oh I forgot, country music disowned them. Even more reason to hate country music and their ilk.