A Tale of Two Countries
American Thinker,
by
Brian Parsons
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/31/2023 8:57:40 AM
Just recently, I took my wife to a local country music concert to celebrate her birthday. I was surprised by the number of people drinking Bud Light there. Given the conservative market backlash to Bud Light’s transgender beer campaign, I expected many more people to choose no shortage of alternatives. A friend observed that they saw a thirty-pack of Bud Light at the local grocer for twelve dollars. This is why it was odd to see people pay twelve dollars for a single Bud Light tallboy.
One Bud Light drinker, in particular, stood out.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Cindiana 5/31/2023 9:20:03 AM (No. 1481429)
The author leads off with observations about beer, but the article is actually a look at changes in Country Music resulting from the leftists co-opting it. This is an interesting overview of how it's changed and the singers whose politics have turned the industry their way.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
southernboy 5/31/2023 10:14:36 AM (No. 1481482)
We few who regularly follow the news don't realize how many of our fellow citizens have absolutely no interest or knowledge of anything outside their own little circle of friends and community.
It's mind-boggling...and explains why elections are a crap-shoot. A relatively few left-wing zealots can organize and swing an election, local or national, with little effort simply because no one has a clue as to what is happening.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/31/2023 10:35:09 AM (No. 1481506)
Nashville has Broadway, a binge drinking French Quarter clone. Every city has one. Nashville locals of course ignore it and there are several places in town where the music is better and the street more fun. I am not going to tell you where they are for obvious reasons. Ask a local street musician where he goes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/31/2023 10:46:05 AM (No. 1481518)
Tractor Rap, Hillbilly Hiphop...what was 1st refered to as "Hat Bands", pop packaged with boots and a hat.
Alan Jackson even wrote a hit song about it...in 1994.
I was blessed to be living in the Texas Hillcountry when the "Austin Sound" was 1st gaining ground. George Strait playing with Ace in the Hole at local beer joints, no cover. Willie. Waylon and The Boys, before Luckenback, when they 1st met Hondo Crouch at Kent Findlays Cheatam street. Jerry Jeff, Michael Murphy, BW Stephenson, Emmie Lou, Asleep at the Wheel, David Allen Coe, Marcia Ball..but Bob Wills still playing somewhere nearby every weekend, and many of those now big names showing up to listen. Armadillo world headquarters, Soap Creek, Throckmortons,...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgZNb6dgTkk
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/31/2023 11:31:35 AM (No. 1481565)
Bless your heart if you thought that mainstreaming country music was recent. Elvis caught flak from radio preachers as soon as he swiveled a hip on Ed Sullivan's show and he was considered country back then. Before TV, a rocket ride to stardom usually took about 30 years of traveling through smoky one-nighters until you could at last, sing on the Louisiana Hayride or the Grand Ole Opry. One of my all time favorite songs, ''I was country before country was cool'' sung by Barbara Mandrell.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mseegal 5/31/2023 12:02:34 PM (No. 1481584)
When politics entered into Country Music, it lost its heart and soul.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/31/2023 1:09:11 PM (No. 1481638)
Music constantly changes. Firmly believe the music between the ages of when we were 15 to 30 is what sticks with us for the rest of our lives. I remember my mother when she was in her 70s fiddling with the radio searching for big band music from the 40s. I largely listen to music from the 70s and 80s with some 60s thrown in. Nothing current. Current music just sounds 'wrong'. Both music and lyrics.
As for boycotts, I just don't get involved. No point in boycotting some company I never use in the first place. Also, given the economy, I'm already restricting my spending habits. Low priorities are cut first. The other thing is wokeism is getting pervasive in corporate America. It's hitting everywhere. Am I supposed to stop grocery shopping if all the grocery stores go woke? I ignore the woke nonsense for the most part, but I don't have any children. If I did, my response would likely be different.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/31/2023 1:42:53 PM (No. 1481686)
Maybe Bud Light could get the Dixie Chicks to do their next television ad.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chumley 5/31/2023 3:51:43 PM (No. 1481797)
I remember watching Hee Haw in the 1970s and wondering if any of those sequined cowboys with their hats and boots and vests and country twangs had ever, even once been on a cattle drive. Or put in a crop or had one fail. Or done any of those things they were singing about. The answer was very few. Nowadays I bet even fewer.
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