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Louis Proyect wrote
Many people associate country music with those whom Hillary Clinton
called “deplorables” or those Obama characterized as clinging to their
guns and religion. I felt that way myself until I got to Houston in 1973
and began listening to country music driving to work each day. This was
before the two country stations had become commercialized and
unlistenable just as is the case with NYC’s WNSH (as in Nashville). You
could hear Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, and even
classics from Hank Williams in each and every hour. It also helped that
my best friend in Houston, the late Nelson Blackstock, was an avid
country music fan with a large collection. The two of us used to go hear
Asleep at the Wheel whenever they were in town. This was a Western Swing
band that played in the style of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. It
was led by Ray Benson, a Jew from Philadelphia who Nelson adored.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2019/10/12/country-music/
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“If it sounds good, it IS good.”
--Duke Ellington
That's how I feel about country music. I didn't like country music when
I was growing up in the Midwest. I associated it with bad hooch,
roadside joints and mean-spirited, red-eyed drunks. When I got to
California in the 50s, I heard the Alabama group Mattox Brothers and
Rose performing "Laid Around and Played Around This Old Town Too Long'
and the for its time risque 'Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down', then
Lester Flatt and the incomparable Earl Scruggs on banjo, the blind Doc
Watson in Ashland, OR in one of the most eerie cloudbursts I've ever
been in, then the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's double album 'Will the Circle
be Unbroken' with gracious old Mother Maybelle Carter, A.P. Carter's
wife and June Carter's mother, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Earl Scruggs,
Vassar Clements and Roy Acuff. I had been listening mainly to jazz and
baroque and other classics, but I decided this too was really good
music, as was and is a lot of reggae, rock, old and new ballads and rap.
While much of any original music type, given the nature of the business
rapidly becomes commercial and vapidly routinized, in every genre
somebody always comes along who's doing it right. So Duke, yeah.
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