>A friend tells me what this article says is true
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>http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-net-worth-sinks-20120612,0,2154635.story
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>Country western preaches acceptance nowadays and Johnny Cash wouldn't get played were he alive today. Haven't listened to C/W radio in a long time, so this is news to me.
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>Pity.
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>Joanna
It's been true for a very long time. At least since Willie Nelson moved back to Texas. Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin addressed it here in the '90s:
http://vueweekly.com/images/sized/img/old_stories/749/69-music-oldsounds-300x365.jpg
