>I haven't had a chance to sit down and watch this show
>(I'm more of a "Law and Order" freak myself), but I do
>know that the title song is written by a
>country/techno group called A3. Some of their song
>titles are "Mao Tse Tung Said" and "Bourgeoisie
>Blues", not that it means they are lefties...I'm not
>sure..but here's an excerpt from an interview....
>
>"But we do it with such reverence -in the song
>`Converted,' we've got 16 bars of Sonny Boy Williamson
>sampled, and we did it with reverence for that music
>and the culture it came from. "And this is difficult
>for me to put in any reasonably sensiblesounding way,
>but we have a much stronger affinity for this, coming
>from our working-class background, with 37 percent
>unemployment, high crime and lots of drug abuse-much
>the same kind of environment that people like Robert
>Johnson came from, people like Lynyrd Skynyrd as well.
>Just pure white trash, or in Marxist terms, total
>proletariat. We don't identify with people in terms of
>whether they're black or white, so for us it's
>completely natural to satirize these things and shower
>on them that reverence we have for them." - Jake Black
right! but, no one would squawk about calling country music american like they'd squawk about calling jazz american!
ain't no oppression involved in the birth of country music, nope. nosiree jimbob.
kelley