[lbo-talk] the music of politics

[B.]

Yeah, my mistake -- I get the CSNY guys mixed up in my
head sometimes. I shouldn't, since the one I referred
to looks like a walrus, and not a proto-grunge dude.
But anyway, point was, political use of songs -- yeah,
Alabama's "Sweet Home Alabama," the single featuring a
Confederate flag flying in all its glory in its
original packaging, taking Neil Young to task for
criticizing southern racism, now used as an official
song of some type by the Alabama govt.

Something about it reminds me of that Onion piece:
"Song About Heroin Used To Advertise Bank" --
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38780

-B.

joseph noonan wrote:

"Neil Young, not gun nutter turned Texas jailbird and
sperm donor to Milissa Etheridge, David Crosby. 
'Southern Man' wasn't even a CSNY song, but was on
After the Gold Rush.  The lyrics in the Skynyrd song
contain: 'I hope Niel Young will remember, / a
Southern man don't need him around anyhow' (or
something like that)"