Posted on 09/15/2019 1:40:34 PM PDT by cowpoke
Did you ever make a Left and Then a Right?
Dale Watson!!
define “put down” was it the truth
In re:?
A song. I had seen your name and wondered if you were the singer, and when you mentioned industry people who are your friends, I was pretty certain you were. I just thought using the song was an indirect way to ask you.
Leftist Burns is a rock fan. This documentary has had its moments but overall it’s been terrible. Burns has an obsession with Johnny Cash, not because he was a great singer, which he of course was not, but because Cash was a liberal social justice warrior who ran around with liberal rock singers. Great country singers have been ignored while over-the-hill rock singers and bands have been glorified. Barely a mention of Lefty Frizzell, no Conway Twitty, no Hank Thompson, no Mel Street, no Stonewall Jackson, no Wynn Stewart, no Stoney Edwards, etc, but hours upon hours of Johnny Cash and his protest songs and Kris Kristopherson and Bob Dylan, neither of which could carry a tune in a 50 gallon drum.
This latest Burns documentary is all about race, race, race, and over the hill rock singers and Burns obsession with Johnny Cash and his social protest songs. Lefty Frizzell and Conway Twitty all but ignored while liberals like Cash, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristopherson got hours upon hours. The series should be called “Johnny Cash Life Story in 8 two hour episodes.” He’s been been featured each and every episode. Burns must be homosexual.
As expected, Burns is a leftist hack.
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Barely mentioned— in episode 2 the Foundational male duet act— The Delmore Brothers. Alton and Rabon. Cotton sharecropper brothers who lived alongside poor blacks on sharecropper “rent” land of old large plantations. Day to day on meager income— doing 5AM radio live shows and then personal appearances the same day, for YEARS in the 20s into the 40’s. The original “hillbillys” that WSM radio abused constantly, including the “great” roy acuff. The days of Uncle Dave Macon whom they toured with— the only guy nice to them, it seems. And the original hillbilly rock n roll:
“Blues Stay Away From Me”- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUk9UDoVyKk
Johnny Cash married a Carter (the dysfunctional Carter Family of Hiltons, VA)— did crap loads of booze and drugs for “authenticity” and because he was an addict, speed and booze. Nothing new there— (See: Hank Williams, who was a terrible loss that could have been prevented, and was a true writer). Merle Haggard— a real car thief who did time, was inspired personally by Cash performing at the prison where Haggard was incarcerated.
Burns— being a victim mentality— identifies with the “pain” that Cash brought on himself, much as Burns and his predilections and leftist bent on victimhood. Would be nice if this guy was an actual musician instead of a fake historian.
George Strait and Alan Jackson made the hit out of Cordle’s
“Murder on Music Row”.
John Hartford has been dead well on 15 years now.
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