[lbo-talk] labor bitchiness

[B.]

There's a lot of great stuff in old country music, but
let's not forget that, like punk, it also had its
shameful moments. I'm thinking of the
too-expensive-to-buy-but-worth-downloading-on-Soulseek
compilation  "Atomic Platters," which is Cold War era
(read: 1940s - 1960s) pop music, a lot of it of the
country variety, featuring Hank Williams, Wanda
Jackson, et. al., doing ANTI-COMMUNIST songs.

In the "What Would Bill Hicks think?" category is
Johnny Cash, featured on this comp. doing a public
service announcement for the Dept. of Defense, asking
folks to contact their local civil service offices for
nuclear attack info, a commercial that is from either
the late 50s or 1960s. I'd rather take my nuclear
attack advice from Johnny Cash than almost anyone I
know, but nowadays such cozy relationships between
musicians and the federal government are a sure way to
lose your cred. Again, I can't help but think of many
Bill Hicks routines playing on this.

-B.

Mr. WD wrote:

"If you take the time to listen to mainstream
commercial country music radio, for example, you'll
find that the vast majority of the songs take a
sloppy, sentimental, earnest tone you'd never have
heard from older country singers like Hank Williams
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xu71i89xvs) . I mean,
compare the older stuff to, say, the single Toby Keith
and Willie Nelson recorded called 'Beer for My Horses' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZUHFuklo8):"