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Americaphilia Part 1 - Country Music

Jul 13, 2006 20:36

I know a lot of people on my flist aren't great country music fans, and I've attributed this in the past to the fact that many of them live in America, and have to put up with the less savoury sides of the country scene (line-dancing, Toby Keith, those endless right-wing screeds by Charlie Daniels), and I live in Britain where I can pick and choose ( Read more... )

todd snider, shelby lynne, radio, dolly parton, country music, lucinda williams, americaphilia, laura cantrell, johnny cash, john peel, gram parsons, neko case

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pink_sweater_uk July 14 2006, 13:39:28 UTC

Hey! I don't know just how noxiously right-wing Charlie Daniels and his Band may be, but surely The Devil Went Down To Georgia deserves some affection, at least?

parma_violets July 16 2006, 11:24:32 UTC

Oh, certainly! No matter how many bollocksy 'open letters' he may write about the importance of the flag, and how them Islams think ya wrap it round yer head, hyuk hyuk hyuk, that is still a brilliant song.

nina_ds July 17 2006, 03:29:18 UTC

I couldn't resist commenting...

I can completely dismiss the whole of Richard Wagner because he was a pompous jerk, an anti-Semite, and a proto-fascist (okay, and I don't like the music because it, too, is authoritarian). But I don't think it's possible to let go of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".

I say this as a Southern (American) liberal and a classical musician by trade.

parma_violets July 18 2006, 08:18:15 UTC

Are you a member of christophereccleston.info? I ask this on nothing more than a hunch.

I'm usually fairly good at separating the opinions of the artist from the art. The exceptions, I suppose, would be Mel Gibson and Vincent Gallo, and there I think my knowledge of their political beliefs intensified and already-present dislike, rather than sparked it.

nina_ds July 18 2006, 16:56:18 UTC

Are you a member of christophereccleston.info? I ask this on nothing more than a hunch.

Hmmm. I think I linked there a couple of times to look at stuff, but I don't post or anything, and I certainly haven't been there in a while. Why? Is something interesting going on? :-)

I'm usually fairly good at separating the opinions of the artist from the art. The exceptions, I suppose, would be Mel Gibson and Vincent Gallo, and there I think my knowledge of their political beliefs intensified and already-present dislike, rather than sparked it.

I'm the same. To be honest, I pretty much loathe Wagner's music, so his vile political views (I could also add megalomania and misogyny) are just an amplification of his overbearing music.

parma_violets July 19 2006, 19:55:10 UTC

Hmmm. I think I linked there a couple of times to look at stuff, but I don't post or anything, and I certainly haven't been there in a while. Why? Is something interesting going on? :-)

Well, yes, constantly. It's fab! But I was really spurred on by noticing you sometimes post with the same EcclesNeck avatar as someone on the CE.info boards. Of course, it is perfectly understandable that more than one person in the world appreciates Chris's neck, but I jsut wanted to make sure.

nina_ds July 19 2006, 23:18:09 UTC

It's fab!

I should probably visit again. I'm so overwhelmed by the din of squee at the moment, it would be nice to at least deal with squee that I agree with.

I got the icon from...petrochor7, I think. I liked the abstraction of it, although all the fans know who it is. But I've discovered in the last couple of years that I'm quite entranced by certain throats (see icon for another favourite example!).

BTW, I'm an American who spent 7 years in England, so my spelling...is trapped somewhere between.

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