AWESOME ANTI-Bush country song!

[realcountrymusic]

For everyone who thinks country music is politically regressive, you MUST hear this. This ain't no alternative country either. It's hard,. real country honky-tonk music. I caught in AAR a moment ago. Everyone was amazed.

http://www.takinmycountryback.com/main.htm

Wearing my name proudly tonight, cuz my peeps have come through BIG TIME

RealCountryMusic


Lyrics:

TAKIN' MY COUNTRY BACK

COUNTRY MUSIC'S GOT MAMAS AND DADDYS
WE GOT BAR ROOMS AND OLD HEARTBREAK SONGS
BUT I 'M HERE TODAY TO STAND UP AND SAY
HOW I FEEL ABOUT MY HOME SWEET HOME
WHAT'S LEFT, WHAT'S RIGHT AND WHAT'S WRONG... AND

I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK
SON, YOU AIN'T BEEN DOIN’ HER RIGHT
OH I BEEN WATCHIN’ YOU AND I DON’T LIKE
HOW YOU'VE BEEN TREATIN’ MY STARS AND STRIPES
YOU TOOK OUR JOBS AND SENT ‘EM OVERSEAS
NOW WE OWE BILLIONS TO THE RED CHINESE
YOU BLEW THE BUDGET AND YOU BOTCHED IRAQ
SO I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK

WE HAD A BUNDLE IN THE TREASURY DRAWER
MORE THAN THERE HAD EVER BEEN BEFORE
BUT EVERY DAY WE'RE DROWNIN' DEEPER IN DEBT
MAYBE FOUR YEARS SHOULD BE ALL YOU GET
THEN YOU GAVE TAX BREAKS TO THE MILLIONAIRES
AND TRIED TO MAKE THE WORKIN’ MAN PAY
BUT YOU CAN’T TAX A MAN WHEN HIS JOBS NOT THERE
NOW LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE TODAY…HEY

I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK
SON, YOU AIN'T BEEN DOIN’ HER RIGHT
OH I BEEN WATCHIN’ YOU AND I DON’T LIKE
HOW YOU'VE BEEN TREATIN’ MY STARS AND STRIPES
YOU GOT TOO MANY FANCY FRIENDS FOR ME
THE SAUDIS TREAT YOU LIKE YOU'RE ROYALTY
YOU BLEW THE BUDGET AND YOU BOTCHED IRAQ
NOW I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK

NOW I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WERE HOT
'CAUSE BIN LADEN NEVER DID GET CAUGHT
SO YOU SAID WE HAD SADDAM TO BLAME
TRIED TO TELL US IT WAS ALL THE SAME
BUT NOW THE YEARS ROLL BY AND OUR KIDS KEEP DYIN'
YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A PLAN TO BRING 'EM HOME
AND THOSE W.M.D. YOU PROMISED ON T.V.
HEY ADMIT IT, YOU FIGURED IT WRONG... SO I'M TAKIN' MY COUNTRY BACK

NOW YOU DON’T KNOW MY NAME, BUT YOU KNOW WHO I AM
I'M YOUR EVERYDAY WORK HARD, PLAY HARD
RAISE KIDS AND PRAY HARD COMMON MAN....
AND LORD KNOWS I LOVE THIS LAND...THAT'S WHY

I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK
SON, YOU AIN'T BEEN DOIN’ HER RIGHT
OH I BEEN WATCHIN’ YOU AND I DON’T LIKE
HOW YOU'VE BEEN TREATIN’ MY STARS AND STRIPES
YOU SAY "UNITE" BUT YOU DIVIDE US MORE
CUSSIN' EACH OTHER ON THE SENATE FLOOR
AIN'T WE SUPPOSED TO BE ABOVE ALL THAT ?
HEY I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK
I GOT MY FAMILY AND MY CHURCH AND FLAG...
NOW I'M TAKIN' MY COUNTRY BACK

[IdaBriggs]

1. Yeah! Kick! nt

[The Traveler]

2. Freakin' awesome! (n/t)

[Supersedeas]

wait 'til my Wiiiiife gets wind-o-this

[lforbus]

3. Bet 'ya won't hear Toby Keith singin' it........

However the Chicks are a possibility.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Nah Toby wants to put a boot in someone's arse!

:silly:

[newyawker99]

49. Hi lforbus!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Is that Hag singing?

[realcountrymusic]

8. No, but it sounds like

someone quite major league. I'm almost positive I know who it is. But the site is making a point, it seems, of keeping the creators anonymous -- I'll bet there would be some *serious* retribution in Nashville over this. It will probably happen anyway, but I'm not outing them just because I'm a former insider.

Email this to every red-state pickup driving stock-car dad you know. I just did, and I know A LOT OF THEM. We could make this an internet hit with enough mass mailing. The song is that good -- real country, well produced, expertly played and sung. It's a lot longer than a typical radio hit, but every verse works, and the chorus has a hell of a hook, especially with that "friends in low places" singalong.

Please help me on this! I swear by every picker's bone in my road-tested body (10 years as a pro country sideman) that this could make a difference if it picked up steam in states that matter.

Two-stepping truth, honky-tonk truth!

SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO MIGHT BE AT ALL INTO COUNTRY MUSIC.

RealCountryMusic

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. I'm sending it to people in Nashville now :)

Love it...ps...the pedal steel totally rocks!

[drdigi420]

53. im glad this song is out there, but i disagree that it is 'well done'

if it rose to the level of 'well done' it wouldnt sound like country music because the composition would be too complex

it isnt complex, its country

now back to your regularly scheduled program

[hoboken123]

56. Well done = complex composition?

What a snobbish comment.

[IHateFundies]

57. not to mention it reveals

a complete lack of understanding of music. Whatever.

[Rose Siding]

33. That's what I thought!

I couldn't even remember his name. It's a little like Johnny Paycheck, too.

[Nana]

5. Thank you!!!

I'm sending it to everyone!

[NinetySix]

7. Just sent it to my uncle

He used to be a dyed-in-the-wool Southern Republican until the late 90s, when he got fed up with all the shit they were pulling on Clinton. Now he wouldn't vote Republican if you threatened him with an axe handle! He not only listens to, but plays Country and Bluegrass music -- he's gonna love this one.

[freetobegay]

9. Oh my God!!!!

Thank you! I love Country music! Being Gay & liberal, you don't know how much this means to me!

On edit: check out my new sig line.

[realcountrymusic]

13. Gay honky-tonkers for truth

Actually I know a lot of gay country fans and musicians. That's one prejudice you won't hear too much of in Nashville, in my experience. It's a major market for the music.

Kudos for being proud of it.

Real. Country. Music.

[freetobegay]

23. Done!

:)

[demwing]

11. Site says "Brought To You By Honkey Tonkers For Truth"

that rocks

[realcountrymusic]

12. Don't it just?

I want to drive down to Nashville and kiss them.

A hint on the singer. He sounds like a young John Conlee. Not that many people do.

RealCountryMusic

[quaoar]

111. So who sings this song?

[WillyT]

14. Loved It !!! - Thank You !!!

:bounce:

[cynatnite]

15. First country song that I've liked in years!

I'm sending it to everyone I know!

[Zorra]

16. Something like George Jones singing a Steve Earle tune. Thanks.

[realcountrymusic]

19. Neither, to me

I love Steve, but he hasn't written a straight ahead honky-tonker like this since . . since never, actually. And the politics are more populist and straightforward than Earle's, which is why they will appeal if distributed.

The singer doesn't have the brandy-rich and melismatic voice of a Jones, more of the stentorian working-stiff everyman bray of a John Conlee, Verne Gosdin, David Houston, etc. In fact, it's the same vocal style as the hated Toby Keith commands. Which, again, makes it all the more powerful as an outreach.

Sorry to go all country fanatic on you. I've lived on DU for this moment.

RealCountryMusic

[Zorra]

30. OK....so,

John Conlee sings a David Allan Coe tune maybe?

You're good. John Conlee is who I wanted to say as a first choice, but could not remember his name, only his voice.
:toast:

[BRLIB]

17. Just downloaded the WAV, screen grabbed

the home page(after intro), put in Photoshop, resized for CD cover, burned 3 covers and CDs!

Bringing to a DJ at the local bar.

[realcountrymusic]

20. What a cool idea. I'll do it and send to every radio DJ I know

and that';s a lot of DJs, though too many of them are in markets where they'd lose their jobs over playing this, I fear.

RCM

[Longhorn]

54. Here's some buzz about it!

TAKIN' MY COUNTRY BACK - Nashville's Honky Tonkers For Truth have released a hard-hitting song written by David Kent, author of Blake Shelton's "Austin." Give it a listen and get your free MP3 and Lyrics download without fear of the RIAA at www.takinmycountryback.com Who is that singing anyway? Click the link to hear in Real Audio format. Nashville's WSM 95.5 is currently playing the 30 second radio spot, but a representative of the radio station said they cannot play the full song since there is no record out representing the opposing viewpoint.

http://bransondotcom.com/

[lukasahero]

55. "the radio station said they cannot play the full song since...

there is no record out representing the opposing viewpoint." :wow:

WHAT? Have they listened to anything they're playing on their station lately?????

[Mixxster]

125. WTF?

...a representative of the radio station said they cannot play the full song since there is no record out representing the opposing viewpoint.

Did they concern themselves with that when they continually played that lie-filled, pro-war piece of crap entitled Have You Forgotten?

[renegade000]

18. awesome

:kick:

[MetalFingersDOOM]

21. A Google search brought me...

to the name Tony Stampley.

[realcountrymusic]

25. Bingo

Serious inheritor of the Outlaw Country mantle of Waylon Jennings and as literate as Kristofferson.

Good catch. I guess he's outed now. But something tells me he'd kick the ass of anyone who gave him shit about it (seen any pics of him?)

RCM

[realcountrymusic]

26. And I forgot to mention

He has a pedigree. He's the son of Joe Stampley, of "Moe and Joe" fame -- (as in Moe Bandy). Those two put out one of the all time great get-drunk-and-go-crazy records of all times, "Good Old Boys (Holding the Bag)" -- included such songs as "The lady from the Country of 1100 Lakes." (For you old-time midwestern beer-drinkers out there, that will make sense).

This is serious working-class country, not a put on. Keep kicking this thread and get people to send the song out. I swear it will help.

RCM

[newyawker99]

50. Hi MetalFingersDOOM!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[MADem]

22. WOW! I have to say that

if you gave me a choice--country music, love it or hate it?-- without being able to qualify my answer, I would pick the latter. But DAMN, that was GOOD!

I know nothing about country music, so please feel free to ridicule me, but it sounded a bit to me like Randy Travis. Of course, a lot of songs sound like Randy Travis to me, he's the only country music singer I have ever met!

That gets an A Plus! I urge everyone to listen and pass it around.

[realcountrymusic]

24. Hmm, very interesting

A very knowledgeable friend of mine, in Nashville for years, heard Randy Travis too. Here's what I wrote back (warning, singer geek alert):

"I'm pretty certain it's not Randy. Too much nasalization and a bit of pharyngeal scratch that I've never heard from RT. I hear what you are talking about, though, in the vowels in the first verse. Which locates the singer as a Carolinian, most likely. Except that he starts to lose those dipthongs as the song progresses, so the accent might just be a bit overdrawn at first."

The basic vowel quality and timbre of this guy's voice is enough like Randy to have at least a few people who know guessing the same as you, who doesn't even dig country. I don't think it is. He has an unmistakeable voice, but excellent stab!

RCM

[realcountrymusic]

29. And another

He actually co-wrote a song with Randy Travis -- "I hate to see you going (but I love to watch you walk away)." Any further doubt that this is real country is now erased!

He's signed with Dreamworks, too.

""


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004XSZR/qid=1097814544/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8903085-8774263?v=glance&s=music

Record's out of stock at Amazon right now, but it's available elsewhere.

Do him a solid, and buy his album. The songs are awesome, and he's one of us!

RCM

[MADem]

75. I'm thrilled not to be ridiculed!

I met Randy years ago, nice guy, quiet. It was either before he married his manager or before anyone KNEW he married his manager. I thought he put on a fine show, and, as I said, I am not a country music fan, but I liked his stuff.

[phish420]

27. SWEET!

I am in podunk redneck Apopka, FL...this is AWESOME ...I know many people that may just wake up to the facts because of this!!

[phish420]

28. Damn, I have to reply one more time

That was just so awesome! I am going to send this to the Monsters of the Midday and Jim Phillips on the local talk radio here (they are also on satellite radio)...they will love this!!

[cynatnite]

31. I sent it to my daughter

She thinks Tracy Byrd did the lead vocals.

I don't know him well enough to say one way or the other.

Awesome song all the way!

[realcountrymusic]

36. Good call

Tracy "Redneck Roses" Byrd is a redneck boy from Beaumont and cut his teeth in the same clubs as George Jones and Mark Chesnutt. I could see how you might think this was him. It's Tony Stampley (see some other posts in the thread).

Now tell your daughter, who obviously knows something about the music, to send it to a dozen of her best country music friends.

RCM

[cynatnite]

45. I had no clue who it was

It was her guess as to who it was who sang the song and we both sent it to friends last night.

Thanks for the 'advice' :eyes:

[calmblueocean]

32. This song ROCKS!

I've got it cranked on repeat! Post more stuff like this if you find it!

[Rose Siding]

34. Thank you

I've been waiting for a song like this. I'd only admit it to another country fan, but it chokes me up just like it should, you know?

[realcountrymusic]

35. Me too

It's hard, to paraphrase a certain president, for me to deal with how suppressed the working-class populist voice has gotten in the music I love most, that I play and study and would take to that proverbial island in the sea.

This song is a rare thing, leftist populist working-class anger, served cold and patriotic, in an authentic voice with the pedigree to match. I love Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams, but for me, it's been a long time coming since songs like Haggard's "Working Man's Blues" were on the chart. Even modern singers who try to strike this pose usually fall flat for me (like Aaron Tippin). Dale Watson is a treasure, for those looking for something like what Haggard and Cash were in their prime, but he's got a very small (if very devoted) following.

So when I heard this, and how GOOD it was, I actually choked up. I think I've listened to it 20 times tonight, and sent it to over a hundred friends -- musicians, lefties, rednecks, anyone I could think of who would get it. And here's a nice note -- two of my old DJ friends I sent it to (one in New Jersey and one in Wisconsin) were so excited they are planning to play it immediately. Alas, these are both college stations, but the Wisconsin one is a hard country show (with an up-from-working-class DJ) that surely reaches some of the working folks in that swing state.

I swear, once more, on everything I ever learned in beer joints and dance halls playing in red states for a living that if this song caught on and was heard by just a couple of hundred thousand people in the right places that it would make a difference. It's that moving to a real country fan choking on Nashville trash. So keep plugging it, please, and be creative about sending it out. If you live near an independent radio station with a country show or format, send them the CD and tell them that it's a great patriotic song.
Post a link on your own websites and blogs. You may think I'm being ridiculously optimistic and naive, but I know from years in the red state trenches of working-class America that the identification with Bush and his ilk is skin deep and as brittle as yesterdays toast. Anything could crack it. This is the musical equivalent of Farenheitt 911 except it doesn't preach to the converted.

I know people whose minds could be changed by a good country song. This is that song.


RealCountryMusic

[calmblueocean]

38. Well said.

This is going to be the next "This Land". Count on it. It's just so darn good! Both musically and rhetorically.

[senseandsensibility]

114. I know

almost nothing about modern country music, except that I hate it. But I do like Johnny Cash, and I love the idea of working class, authentic music in any form. I live near a radio station based in Freedom, California which is near Watsonville. They play all kinds of authentic country and off beat stuff. They're called K-PIG, or the PIG. You should send it to them. I think they'd like it. They have have a huge national and international audience because of streaming.

[Merlin]

37. This is GREAT! Thanks.

.

[RoyGBiv]

39. Kick!!!

Hell yeah ...

:kick:

[kostya]

40. Absolutely precious!

And that's saying a lot from someone who rarely listens to C&W

[blitzen]

41. Brought tears to the eyes of this hardcore country fan n/t

[Merlin]

44. How can we get it played in country music land?

Just wondering.

[pacalo]

42. Damn! That gave me the goose bumps -- awesome!!

I'm not even a fan of country music, but I think I'll call the country music radio stations to get it aired here.

[fob]

43. I got some people that NEED to hear that!

[Anaxamander]

46. I cried when I heard this

I grew up listening to Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline, and I feel country music, when done right, can be incredibly moving. Of course, being a liberal Democrat in South Georgia, it's easier to find people who disagree with me than agree. But hearing this song gives me hope. It makes me realize there are other country boys like me out there who drive pickup trucks, love football, and are liberal to the bone. To hear such an authentic expression of TRUE patriotism in this song brings a tear to my eye.

Edited to add: I love the double-meaning of the title. Yes, we're taking our country, the United States of America, back, but we're also taking our country MUSIC back!

[blondeatlast]

101. Double entendres aren't always related to dirty jokes--I noticed the play

on words, too.

Awesome song. I wish my dad could have heard this; he would've seriously loved it.

[gohawks]

47. All...Send this to IMUS... let's see if we can get him tp play it...

Big Thanks REALCOUNTRY

Don Imus, [e-mail]

[MADem]

77. HOLY SHIT

I did that yesterday, and today I sent a whining email asking if I could get a reply that they received my email, and giving them the link again!

I also sent it to AIR AMERICA, and I called the Kerry HQ and gave them the website--wouldn't that song sound GREAT at rallies?

[blondeatlast]

102. Oh, yeah! nt

[goddess40]

48. now I just have to figure out how to burn it to a CD

I'm rather lacking in my computer skills, so if anyone can walk me through it I would be grateful.

Thanks,

[realcountrymusic]

58. Depends on your operating system and software

Post what you are using as an OS and what you use to play music and I'll post easy instructions if I can. You should download the .wav version for max quality, so you don't have to decompress the mp3.

RCM

[Merlin]

51. I predict this will be an historic song.

Great campaign songs become a part of history for the winner. This is one of them. It's a rare, excellent political song not unlike "Charlie and the MTA."

[Rambis]

52. Thank god the anti Lee Greewood song

Glenda Hood: the woman that will steal the election in Florida for bushco

[Libby2]

59. This is awesome

and long overdue.

Any guesses who the lead singer is?

The chorus brought tears to my eyes.

[realcountrymusic]

62. Tony Stampley (see above) EOM

[DinahMoeHum]

60. You can also hear this song thru Music Row Democrats. . .

at www.musicrowdemocrats.com


They're plugging this song, too!


:kick:

[Libby2]

61. Yeah I heard about them last night

What excited me the most, was this group was formed in 2003.

Go Country !!!!!!!
Thanks for the link.

[blondeatlast]

103. That is an AWESOME website! Thanks! nt

[nomatrix]

63. I have been singin this all day!

Home Page nomination.

PLEASE SKINNER!!! Yellow sticky link too, so everyone can start their day singing this.


Everyone from the Vietnam generation who was old enough to go or march KNOWS the songs gave hope, inspiration, cadence for change, you knew you were not alone.

I am not a country fan, but this one will not go away.

Words are great, easy to sing along. Thank you for bringing this one out!

[realcountrymusic]

64. It's a darn catchy hook, ain't it?

Sorry to keep replying-- I know I'm being a bitt arrogant "kicking" my own original thread, but I'm so gung ho about seeing this song circulated that I want to keep the thread going. If you haven't listened to this, please do.

http://www.takinmycountryback.com/

humbly

RCM

[MADem]

79. KEEP KICKING

That is why I am back at this thread tonight

We have our base, now we NEED TO REACH OUT...and this is the SONG TO LEAD THE WAY!!!

[gohawks]

65. Kick!

[Longhorn]

66. I sent it to all my children, including my Marine son in Japan.

He emailed me back right away and said he loved it and now has a new "anthem." I'll bet he shares it with the other Marines, though I think most have voted by now.

[realcountrymusic]

70. Military, damn! Great idea.

Anyone with military contacts send this please. Soldiers love country music. If this reached Iraq, where a lot of soldiers have net connections and listen to a ton of music, can you imagine?

Please!

http://www.takinmycountryback.com/

RCM

[northernsoul]

67. yee-haw!

:kick:

[MileHiStealth]

68. Nero Cover Designer (NCD) file

Made this for my own use but
thought others might like it.

Lyric Booklet, CD Cover insert, and
CD graphics for Takin' My Country Back ..

NCD format for Nero

http://www.dsmdataloggers.com/DU/country.ncd

[realcountrymusic]

69. Any chance you could post as jpg or tiff?

That would be great

RCM

[MileHiStealth]

72. CD JPGs for Takin' My Country Back

Jewel Case Cover
---------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Lyric Booklet Front
---------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Lyric Booklet Back
---------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------
These are Hi-rez so they'll print clearly.
Right click image ... Save As ...

I don't have one for the actual CD as I'm
not sure how to export it from Nero Cover Designer

[realcountrymusic]

73. Cool - here's a jewel case template (free)

Not sure how I missed that on the website.

Very simple CD Jewel Case template for MS Word is online at:

http://www.addbalance.com/word/download/jewelcase.zip


Works like a charm. Especially if you buy the insert stationery (Staples, Office Depot, etc.)

RCM

[MileHiStealth]

74. "Cool - here's a jewel case template (free)"

Wasn't on the website. I put
it together with Paintshop
Pro and Nero from graphics
I grabbed from the website.
I'll see if I can whip up
a Word file from that template.
Make it real easy for people
to print their own copies ...

Done ..... A Word doc so
everyone can print their
own covers and inserts...

http://www.dsmdataloggers.com/DU/countryCD.doc

Heyz realcountrymusic, thanks for the template !

[realcountrymusic]

106. Excellent! True collaboration at DU EOM

[wherewingstakedream]

71. Kick!

Amazing song! :bounce:

[alarimer]

76. great song

the email I read said that they could not get any famous country act to do the vocals (guess they were afraid of the fallout) so they got Stampley, who is a session singer and musician. He probably has some CD's but is not really a big-name singer. Unfortunately I doubt this will get airplay on mainstream radio stations because it will be percieved as too "political" as another poster already experienced. It is a real shame but we should not quit sending it around, maybe if there is enough buzz they will play it.

[MADem]

81. CALL YOUR COUNTRY MUSIC STATION

ASK FOR IT!!! If enough people ask for it, it WILL get played. Also, if they pull that equal time bullshit, mention that asskicking song that Peter Jennings would not play. Tell them that NO ONE is named in the song, so you can take it any way you want. ACCUSE THEM OF CENSORSHIP, while you are at it!

Get all your friends to call in, too.

[gohawks]

87. And give it to Imus.. he will play it ...

Don Imus, [e-mail]

[enigmatic]

78. Hey, I'll play it!

I've got an internet station:

http://www.radioenigma.com

I've played stuff by other DUers; I'd love to play this. E me and we'll set it up...

[realcountrymusic]

84. Awesome

But what do you need other than the song itself, which you can download?

And how can we access your net station?

RCM

[enigmatic]

85. I just need the the permission of the artist...

that it's ok to play it. You can listen to the station from my webpage link:

http://www.radioenigma.com

Click on "Listen" on the front page and you're in!

[realcountrymusic]

88. You don't need to (see the web page)

When you download the song you agree to a terms of use agreement that releases all mechanical copyright (what you need for radio) until Nov. 2d.

These are smart people, as well as good.

RCM

[enigmatic]

89. Then I'll get it on!

I'll let everybody know when, but it'll be probably tomorrow morning for sure..

[enigmatic]

105. I heard from the artist..

and he says I can play it! It'll be in the rotation starting tomorrow on the "Sunday Morning Sampler" show, and all through the week w/ the "Sampler" shows. Thanks for the heads up!

[realcountrymusic]

107. Kick for RadioEnigma

http://www.radioenigma.com

Support a fellow DUer's radio show!

RCM

[Hailtothechimp]

80. This won't convert me to country music, but.........

I give credit where it's due. Great song.

[Philostopher]

82. Nice to see some of the 'No Depression' artists

involved or name-checked on this website. Wonder where Dwight Yoakam is? I'd figure he'd throw in, I always figured him for an atavist and antiestablishment type. I'd hate to be wrong about him. Glad to see Rodney Crowell signed that guitar they're auctioning on the website -- I'm not a big country fan, but I always thought a lot of him as a songwriter.

[TexasLady]

83. not a c and w fan BUT

i sure liked this one..kick again..

[gohawks]

86. Email Imus... get it on his morning show

Don Imus, [e-mail]

[MileHiStealth]

90. Just got e-mail from Honky Tonkers for Truth

Thank you a million Steve !

Our singer's Tony Stampley . He's had lots of albums out in the past on various labels.
He's also had a lot of his songs recorded by others.
Check him out online . Anyway , we really appreciate your efforts at getting the word out
about this great song and record. Keep up the good work.


sincerely , Paul Scholten , Honky Tonkers for Truth

http://www.takinmycountryback.com




press releases :




Honky Tonkers for Truth - Associated Press - 6000 radio stations!


ASSOCIATED PRESS - Morning Prep - 10/13/04
HONKY TONKERS FOR TRUTH: DON'T YOU WISH YOU'D THOUGHT OF THAT NAME?
NASHVILLE (AP) - - When some Nashville music industry professionals decide it's time for a country song to take issue with Presidential policy, the go and record one. That's how the self-named "Honky Tonkers for Truth" came about. Songwriter, David Kent, who wrote Blake Shelton's hit, "Austin," wrote "Takin' My Country Back," and took it to Tim Dubois and Mike Dungan, the presidents of Universal South Records and Capitol Records - - and producers Don Cook and Garth Fundis. What they didn't have was a big-name artist willing to put his-or-her career on the line by singing a song with a critical message - - until Tony Stampley stood up. He performs the song "Takin' My Country Back." The Honky Tonkers for Truth say they support our troops overseas, and believe in family, faith and freedom and deeply love this country. But they say the songs by Toby Keith, Charlie Daniels, Darryl Worley and other give people the false impression that everyone in country music supports the current administration.


COUNTRY MUSIC'S OTHER VOICE:
A group of Nashville music industry professionals, calling themselves the Honky Tonkers for Truth, decided it was time that a country song take issue with Presidential policy, (much like Darryl Worley's, Have You Forgotten and Toby Keith's, Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue speak in favor of it). They had no problem finding a hit-songwriter, a professional studio, and top-drawer session players and engineers, all who were willing to donate their talents and services and, to stand up and be counted as country music's "other voice."

What they had in a matter of days was, Takin' My Country Back, penned by David Kent (Austin by Blake Shelton and other country hits), a stone-cold country song clearly criticizing the President's record. With just a "demo vocal" of the song, they went directly to the top:
Tim Dubois (President, Universal South Records); Mike Dungan (President, Capitol Records); Don Cook (Producer, Brooks & Dunn); Garth Fundis (Producer, Trisha Yearwood) for starters. Without exception, these Music Row executives loved the song. What the Honky Tonkers for Truth had on their hands was a hit...almost.

What they didn't have was a "brand name" singer willing to put his/her career on the line by singing a song with a critical message. The Honky Tonkers for Truth are comprised of successful songwriters, publishers, producers, musicians, and attorneys. Even with their combined contacts, the best they could get from the "star" country artists they queried (all self-proclaimed Democrats) was a "maybe" and then, when their managers caught wind of it, "Sorry...and good luck.

Enter, Tony Stampley, one of Nashville's most respected session singers and son of country legend, Joe Stampley. Tony's stellar performance of Takin My Country Back and his willingness, rather, his passion and enthusiasm, to be a part of country music's "other voice"
inspired the Honky Tonkers for Truth to take the song directly to the world via radio, the internet, and any other means possible. Examples:

1) The lyrics of Takin' My Country Back were broadcast on the JumboTron at the Gaylord Entertainment Center as the song played to 8,000 concerned Nashville citizens who came to hear speaker/activist/filmmaker, Michael Moore, the night of October 9, 2004.

2) Acclaimed Nashville journalist/reviewer, Robert K. Oermann, wrote in Music Row Magazine (10/8/04), "The war, the economy, tax cuts for the rich, sending jobs overseas...it's all here in one cleverly written package. Yes, it's topical. But it's also a real good country record."

3) Journalist, Neil Haislop, who provides the Nashville Update for GAC (Great American Country) television network wrote, "The Honky Tonkers for Truth, a grassroots Nashville-based organization, who support the troops overseas and love this country, have released a country track that expresses their sentiments for a change in Washington."

4) At this writing, the website: www.TakinMyCountryBack.com has been up for ten days. It's had 90,000 hits to date.

5) 30 and 60 second radio spots featuring the song Takin' My Country Back are playing now on selected country radio stations and can be downloaded for free at our website.

6) The ASSOCIATED PRESS featured Takin' My Country Back in the 10/13/04 edition of The AP Morning Prep. They service SIX THOUSAND radio stations.

The Honky Tonkers for Truth support our troops overseas, believe in family, faith and freedom, and deeply love this country. What we disagree with is, the image and the misconception
that all people in the country music industry support the current administration. For those who differ with our opinion, we respect your right to speak freely, defend your position, and express yourself because, we believe in the rights provided to ALL of us by The First Amendment. So far, there has been nothing on country radio to reflect our sentiment and, there are millions of country music lovers who feel the same way we do. All we're asking for is EQUAL TIME on the airwaves. To hear this brave song free of charge, go to: www.TakinMyCountryBack.com

The Honky Tonkers for Truth welcome inquiries and interviews by any and all members of the media. Contact: [e-mail]


DISClaimer
Robert K. Oermann




All of which brings me to “Takin’ My Country Back” by Honky Tonkers for Truth. Yes, it’s topical. But it’s also a real good country record.



HONKY TONKERS FOR TRUTH/Takin’ My Country Back



Writer: none listed; Producer: none listed; Publisher: none listed; TMCB (www.takinmycountryback.com



—It’s honky tonk to the core, all right. But this ain’t your run-of-the-mill redneck lyric. “You blew the budget and you botched Iraq/Now I’m taking my country back,” is the tag line of the chorus. The war, the economy, tax cuts for the rich, sending jobs overseas...it’s all here in one cleverly written package. I’m told that Honky Tonkers for Truth wish to perform at the Michael Moore event in Nashville this weekend. Stay tuned.


G.A.C. news for Fri-Sun, Oct. 8-10, 200


HONKY TONKERS FOR TRUTH MAKE SONG AVAILABLE
Honky Tonkers for Truth, a grassroots organization of Nashville-based singers, songwriters, players, engineers, publishers, lawyers and producers who support the troops overseas, believe in family, faith and freedom, and who deeply love this country have released "Takin' My Country Back," a country music track that expresses their sentiments for a change in Washington.

Written by David Kent ("Austin"/Blake Shelton), "Takin' My Country Back" will, for a limited time, be offered free of charge to the public as well as all media outlets and radio through their website: www.takinmycountryback.com. After the November 2 election, a licensing fee will be reinstated.

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On Oct 15, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Steve Mitchell wrote:


Thanks a million!!!!
You guys made my day. Sending the
link to everyone I know. Who's
the singer? Does he have any
CDs out that I can buy as a
thank-you ???

Steve M

[realcountrymusic]

91. Thank you for this

sincerely

RCM

[MockSwede]

92. Kick ASS!

Just read lyrics - music will have to wait for home.

[realcountrymusic]

93. The lyrics come alive

The music is SO good, so in-the-pocket hard country. Wait until you hear it, if you like ral country.

RCM

[MockSwede]

100. You're right.

I just listened to it. You're right.

[girl gone mad]

94. Wow..

look at all the people here that have been waiting for a good liberal country song.

I think Nashville has been neglecting a huge market.

[MADem]

95. To say nothing of the people

...who never went for country because it focused too much on things that have nothing to do with the life of the urban dweller. But that song hit me right between the eyes, and when you like the music and LOVE the lyrics, you have a WINNER!

[realcountrymusic]

99. As a big-city country lover myself

I think you should give the music -- especially the best of the stuff - a second chance, and beyond this song. Most country, since the 1950s at least, has dealt quite extensively with urban experience. Modern hard country is in fact the music of the rural-to-urban migration of the American working class. The classic country themes are global (and this is evidenced by the global popularity of the genre). Love and loss, alienation and a sense of place, the anieties of aging, the pleasures of good company -- nothing rural or urban in particular there. My argument is that the "rural" element in modern country is mostly a metaphor for loss of tradition, the signla modern, urban experience around the world.

Here's a stat to consider. Country is among the biggest musics going in Aboriginal Australia, the Anglophone Caribbean (especially Grenada, St. Lucia, Guyana, and Jamaica), Black Southern Africa, and Native America. A case can be made, in fact, that country is the second or third most widely listened-to music in the world, after Bollywood film music and (this is debatable) hip-hop. And you should hear how much country has found its way into the Bollywood sound!

RCM

[MADem]

108. I must admit that I can PERSONALLY

...attest to the popularity in Jamaica, as far back as the early 1970's. It was either reggae or country, mon, yu nat fine any ting else on da juke box!

[realcountrymusic]

112. Amazing, but true

In Brooklyn, NYC there are quite a few Caribbean nightclubs that mix hard country into the flow with Soca, Reggae, Zouk, Calypso, etc. And a number of the dancers wear western clothes. And there are some very good country singers from St. Lucia and Grenada and Barbados and Guyana in the community (Bed-Stuy).

It often blows people's minds to hear this. The only thing more interesting is, perhaps, that country is almost universally beloved in black communities in southern Africa, and has been since the 1940s. Jim Reeves is a god there, and Don Williams and Dolly Parton are modern superstars who sell out soccer stadiums when they tour in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Kinda changes the meaning, doesn't it?

RCM

[MADem]

113. I knew a guy

whose claim to fame was that he and a few of my other Jamrock friends were extras in a James Bond movie that they filmed there. He had one of the few Cadillacs on the island, decked out with (I kid you not) HORNS, as in steer horns, and an Eight Track Player with the largest country music collection I had ever seen. He also wore a cowboy hat and a big Texas-ish belt buckle (a bit off putting with the white shoes and belt).

But the funniest thing was, the bway had nevah lef de hiland! He was jamrock born and raised, so that is probably proof positive, in and of itself, that the influence of the music has been out there for some time!

[realcountrymusic]

98. Darn right

Some of us in the trade have been saying so for a long time. We were on the verge of making the case before 9/11 set us back to the dark ages.

RCM

[gohawks]

96. Pass Along... This Song... This is HOT

Big Thanks to REALCOUNTRYMUSIC for bringing this to our attention:

As a good ol' country boy myself I can tell you that if this song gets circulated it will have big influence on a culture of folks we would like to swing our way.

Most radio stations will not play it because of it's strong political statement. This song is more powerful than Fahrenheit-911 to a good-ol-boy.

Do everything you can to circulate this song.

http://www.takinmycountryback.com/main.htm . free download or you can play from there.

[realcountrymusic]

97. Thank you for the props

And I just had another indy radio DJ friend agree to play it this week (in New Jersey).


I agree, btw, that this may out-kick F911. That movie, which I loved, preached to the converted. This song tells it like it is, but is aimed squarely at the wholly unconverted, and speaks their language.

Plus it just flat out rocks.

RCM

[BRLIB]

104. Karaoke version ???

If there were ever any lyrics I would want to sing....here they are!

[MADem]

110. What a good idea! n/t

[shrdlu]

109. Riverbend at Baghdad Burning...

...has the link. A little kicker dancing ought to liven up a Ramadan party for her and her girlfriends.

[SammyWinstonJack]

115. Cool beans!

Love it!

[Kimber Scott]

116. Kick

:kick:

[kimchi]

117. Memories of my childhood...

Mostly good-- me and mom singing Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn songs.

I don't like today's country music; but I still listen to bluegrass.

But this song ROCKS!

[JPace]

118. kick

[MADem]

119. Someone sent ME this link today

It's making the rounds!!!! Anyone who has not listened to it yet, I, as a non-country music expert or diehard, urge you to listen to it. It gets you revved up in the best possible way--a real anthem for the next two weeks!!!!

[tableturner]

120. kick

[K8-EEE]

121. Totally Brilliant, THANK YOU!

I LOVE IT!~ Best anti-* song of any genre IMO.

[Longgrain]

122. Not a big country fan...

But a big folk fan.
Let's not forget, country music is just a twang, a sigh, and a blow on the mouth harp away from folk music. People like Woody and Arlo and Leadbelly, Joan and Judy, Dylan and countless others who would raise hell if you ever called them 'conservative'.
An interesting observation. The phrase "Taking back my country" could be read on two levels. The literal: My country--the united states. And the figurative: My county--my taste in music, which has been so hijacked and used for political purposes in recent years.

[stevedeshazer]

123. Great stuff for sure

I sing a little honky-tonk now and then, and that is one fine damn song!

That's the real country music I know...thanks for sharing.

[in_cog_ni_to]

124. AWESOME song!

Thank you for posting it here! :hi:

[Mixxster]

126. Kick n/t

[mia]

127. kick

:kick: