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
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Shelby Lynne is likewise aces.
The Arlenes album 'Going to California' was also quite good.
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I shall look into the Arlenes.
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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.
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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.
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