Oh dear, Charles Pearce Has Something To Say About The CMAs & The ACA

[kpete]

Apparently, the Affordable Care Act was the subject of some mockery in Nashburg last night at the annual festival of prefabricated hicks and manufactured shitkickers.

Let's forget, shall we, that the act is working gloriously in places like Kentucky, but that places like Tennessee, which hosted the yearly gathering of artificial redneck morons, have decided to sabotage the act because Tennessee insists on electing idiots, which is why there are a lot of the problems for Jethro and Zelda Mae to make sport of on the electric teevee. Let's also forget how much an actual Medicaid expansion would help in all those Southern states where these posers sell records and that have governors who suddenly find themselves allergic to Free Money (!) Let's also forget that none of the make-believe goobers on stage last night ever are going to have to make the decision between medicine for the kids and food on the table.

Let's forget all of that and concentrate on the main issue -- which is that modern country music sucks gigantic bowls of monkey dick. It is, weight for age, the phoniest genre of music since Pat Boone was ripping off Little Richard. Most of what is celebrated as "country" these days is simply bad rock and roll played by people who look like they flunked the audition for a Night Ranger tribute band. I mean, Taylor Fking Swift is already a "legend," and Patsy Cline would have eaten her on toast.


You know what country music is?

This is country music.

And this.

......................

And, most assuredly, this.

If Gram Parsons weren't dead, this would kill him.


Read more:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/affordable-care-act-country-music-awards-110713


ouch, Taylor is going to be pissed,

peace, kp

[warrior1]

1. Charlie Pierce

my hero

[hlthe2b]

10. and mine...

There are some good progressives among the country performers, but the majority, like teabagger politicos, feed the most ignorant (and racist) common denominator among their fans.

[joeybee12]

2. Woo-hoo!

[villager]

3. Rec'd on the basis of the Patsy Cline line, alone...

[Whisp]

8. Patsy!!!

[alfredo]

19. Ernest Tubb loved jazz, but country was his bread and butter.

[myrna minx]

4. I LOVE his columns.

Charlie.

[mainstreetonce]

5. Taylor

She didn't get the award because she is the greatest musician. She got it because she opened up new country music to the young generation.

In an age where kids are hooked on rap with obscene lyrics,she broke in with song lyrics as innocent as the Beach Boys tunes my generation grew up on.

She is not Patsy Cline, or Johnny Cash or Garth .Brooks (the only other person to get that award) .

She is not Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus or Snoop Dog either.

I am not a big Taylor Swift fan, but I do understand that pre teeny boppers singing about talking on the phone to their boyfriend is healthier than most of what they are exposed to.


I think there is a young crowd that could use a lot more break through artists like her.

I understand why the CMA knows she is a big deal to the business.

She deserves the award.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. I wish DU had a thumbs up feature. I would use it on your post.

[Bandit]

11. How about this

[Dawson Leery]

7. Underwood and Swift are barbie dolls. The only reason das country community

tolerates them is because they look they part and smile for the camera much the same way beauty pageant contestants did 50 years ago.

They would never had made fun of a Republican President.

"prefabricated hicks"

[kpete]

9. I have been wanting to use this jpg for something...

peace, kp

[hootinholler]

29. WOW that's cold

No one moved to help that woman?

Where and when is this from?

[kpete]

31. no idea

just floating in the tubes...........



peace,
kp

[mainstreetonce]

12. Brad Paisley

who did the skit would make fun of anyone. He is a huge Obama supporter. They made fun of the website problems.

I think the president would laugh as I did.

[Dawson Leery]

14. Two years ago, Mr. Paisley brought racist Hank Jr. on stage for a standing ovation.

The Dixie Chicks were blacklisted for saying much less than Hank Jr.

The good ole boy mentality is at the core of country culture.

[kcr]

27. Isn't he the one that did that awful "Accidental Racist" song

I agree. Good ol' boy. Yuck. I'm not surprised he made fun of the ACA.

[Dawson Leery]

40. Yes he did.

[Erose999]

21. I asked my little neices why they didn't like Taylor and they said "her songs are only about boys".

Smart girls, lol.

[flygal]

44. Love it.

I'm not a music junkie by any means but her songs are not pleasant to listen to.

[Scuba]

13. You know why black people hate country music?

'Cause it sucks.

[lark]

20. This old southern white woman hates country music as well.

Country music these days is just anemic pablum with little redeeming qualities and almost no originality. Give me some good hard charging rock or blues anyday with ocassional sips of sweet jazz.

[tosh]

36. This one, too!

Hate country music, always have. It's the only genre that I just can't handle. (Well, maybe polka, too. )

[lark]

37. How about western?

Hate that one too? I certainly do.

[tosh]

41. Yep.

I've always lumped that in with country.

[Ian_rd]

15. Townes, Steve, and Guy!

Btw if anyone is interested in real country, then look for Together at the Bluebird Cafe. It's a live recording of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and Steve Earl playing together and trading stories. One of the best albums I've ever owned.

Strangely, I've never before realized the similarities between modern Country and the GOP. Both are industries based around pretending to be down-home regular guys, who are actually rich folk conning working class southerners out of their money.

[Erose999]

23. Townes Live at the Old Quarter is good too, as is the documentary "Heartworn Highways" which has all

of them in it. They followed Guy and Steve on tour, and they try not to play to the camera, like a serious documentary. Then as a joke on the camera crew they send them to Austin to record Townes (thinking he'd flop), who plays to the camera with comedy routines and telling stories and of course steals the show.

And of course, theres Blaze Foley who often played shows with Townes, and the Cowboy Junkies who he toured with.

Theres a new documentary on Blaze called "Duct Tape Messiah" but I haven't seen it.

[Link Speed]

26. Blaze was one of a kind

I knew (still do, but Blaze and Townes are gone) all of those guys. I wonder how many here are aware of Blaze.

[Gman]

45. A great song from the great musician

Rod Kennedy banned them from the Kerrville folk festival after he sang his Idi Amin song on the main stage.

[ReRe]

16. That's not country music they put on last night...

That was pure white trash redneck. I find nothing redeemable in that genre of music. Never watch it. Bluegrass? Yes. Redneck country? NO!

Then this morning on every channel on TV, the disgusting little skit making fun of ACA.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

17. Patsy and Gram...

I always feel like I need a cigarette after Pierce. Sometimes Moford, sometimes Rude, but always Pierce. Wonder if he came to Raleigh for Wide Open Bluegrass -- I think he'd approve!

[alfredo]

18. Many Nashville session musicians I knew were rockers. Osmosis.

A gig is a gig.

Two greats:

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New traditionalist:

More Bluegrass, but I consider Bluegrass more country than what you hear on country radio today.

Gillian Welch's backup Dave Rawlings reminds us that the Grateful Dead wrote some good country.

[okaawhatever]

28. If anyone gets a chance to see Junior Brown live I highly recommend it. nt

[alfredo]

42. He's an incredible musician.

Dave Rawlings can bring the fire with his archtop.

[FloriTexan]

22. Don't forget Ray Wylie Hubbard

I guess the CMA's were trying to appeal to their base.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. heh.

annual festival of prefabricated hicks and manufactured shitkickers.

[phantom power]

25. I will rec this just for "flunked the audition for a Night Ranger tribute band"

[seveneyes]

30. That's what Charlie gets paid to do

Besides, Charlie never has to choose between medicine for the kids and food on the table. Most people do something for a living and get paid much less than faux country musicians and Charlie himself. Hooray for American entertainment!

[wryter2000]

32. OMG

I was so on-board with the ACA rant, but when he got to the country music rant...wow, is he right on. Country music isn't my favorite, but even I can recognize how it's deteriorated into faux rock music pablum.

[KoKo]

33. Kick...fun thread for the Music Clips!

[DinahMoeHum]

34. Hey Nashville, CMA: Johnny Cash salutes you:

[rurallib]

35. Well this thread needs Pat Boone covering Little Richard

see if you can tell the difference

the other guy

I report - you decide

[Spitfire of ATJ]

38. I always considered John Denver and Willie Nelson to be "country".

[hueymahl]

39. Thanks for the great clips!

You are right, most modern country is hardly country at all. But there are exceptions; Jamey Johnson is a shining example:

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[alfredo]

43. We do have a good crop of new traditionalist.

Still the real talent is in Bluegrass and more traditional rural music.

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