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Thu Nov-02-06 06:20 PM
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Forget Ted Haggard! This is the real Haggard |
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Thu Nov-02-06 06:21 PM
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1. I have been a fan of the hag for years |
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Thu Nov-02-06 08:01 PM
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2. This Okie approves that message |
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Thu Nov-02-06 08:08 PM
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3. Good ol' Merle the Toby Kieth of the 60's and early 70's. |
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Edited on Thu Nov-02-06 08:09 PM by William Bloode
So many around here seem to forget how Merle had his little ultra patriot conservative songs shoot him to the top in the beginning.
Think i'll just stay here and drink! :beer:
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Thu Nov-02-06 08:15 PM
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4. merle has always been an iconoclast--right here, left there |
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you can point to "Okie...", but I can point to any number of 60s and 70s haggard songs with what we'd recognize as a progressive stance
example: "Irma Jackson"--about an interracial relationship and the "crazy world" that frowns on it
I'd love to shout my feelin's from a mountain high Tell the world I love her and I will till I die There's no way the world will understand that love is colour blind That's why Irma Jackson can't be mine
I remember when no one cared about us bein' friends We were only children and it really didn't matter then But we grew up too quickly in a world that draws a line Where they say Irma Jackson can't be mine
If my lovin' Irma Jackson is a sin Then I don't understand this crazy world we're livin' in There's a muddy wall between us standin' high But I'll love Irma Jackson till I die
She tells me she's decided that she'll go away And I guess it's right but she alone should have the final say But in spite of her decision forcin' us to say goodbye I'll still love Irma Jackson till I die
If my lovin' Irma Jackson is a sin Then I don't understand this crazy world we're livin' in It's a muddy wall between us standin' high But I'll love Irma Jackson till I die
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Thu Nov-02-06 08:24 PM
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5. Country itself was like that then. |
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Loretta Lynn is a great example of someone in country with controversial views that people loved, and still do. She also has some very conservative, and religious stuff.
I don't fault Hag for song like Okie, or Fightin' Side. I like them just as much as Daddy Frank, or Sing Me Back Home. My fave is the Fugitive song, that one and Conway's Play Guitar Play remind me how it feels running from the law.
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