[lbo-talk] the music of politics

[Matt]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 07:55:34AM -0800, B. wrote:
> [Speaking of politically questionable uses of songs,
> how about Alabama adopting Lynyrd Skynyrd's sorta
> kinda reactionary "Sweet Home Alabama" as the state's
> official tourism song? That song was written as an
> angry rebut to Crosby's song about racism in the south
> -- "Southern Man" -- and how Crosby was full of shit,
> basically. "Us southern men don't you around" Skynyrd
> told Crosby, for his criticism of the South's racism.
> - B.]

Not Crosby - Neil Young, from _After the Gold Rush_.

Matt

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