WILLIE NELSON AND AMERICA'S DECADENT MUSIC INDUSTRY

"CONSERVATIVE WORKERS OF AMERICA" ^ | March 1, 2006 | MICHAEL WESTFALL

[carolgr]

The definition of an American icon has changed over the last fifty years. For Valentines Day country singer icon Willie Nelson debuted his groundbreaking “gay cowboy song” on the “anti-family” Howard Sterns satellite radio program. Nelson also sang in the recent gay movie “Brokeback Mountain”.

This 71-year-old braided balladeer’s new “gay” music holds the promise of further polluting America’s airwaves.

Likewise, Sony’s new recording label called “Music With a Twist” features artists who practice homosexuality. The label is connected to MTV’s gay TV network.

At one time country music meant mom, home and apple pie. Men were men and “the ladies were glad of it”. Country music’s formula was filled with family values, nostalgia and the issues that everyday families face. Today things are changing. Country music along with pop music is becoming a major factor in the downward spiral of America’s once wholesome culture.

[mugs99]

There's a deeper range to it.

Could be, I guess it just isn't my thing. I will admit that I like Reba McEntire, but she's the only one I can think of that sounds real to me.
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[Emmett McCarthy]

I knew that story about Waylon's assessment of Garth, but was a little leering of posting it. I like Waylon's music more than Willie's, but that may be because I have a not so hot opinion of Willie as a man.

[deport]

Not like this song was just written and recorded.....

Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other

"The song's been in the closet for 20 years," Mr. Nelson said in a prepared statement. It was written in 1981 by Lubbock-born singer-songwriter Ned Sublette.

[weegee]

I heard that Rick Moranis hadn't been in the public eye sinc his wife died of cancer. Don't know if that is a vanity project or just something else for him to focus on. He was in some big box office films (aside from things like Strange Brew) so he may not need the money.

[TheGeezer]

I was a rock fan all my life until punk came along. It sucked. I started a middle-aged search for my car radio buttons. I finally listened to Country. I heard lyrics about trucks, drinking, and divorce. But I also heard songs about God and country, true and lasting love, about innocence lost and regained. And I heard a lot of songs that required tongue firmly in cheek, and still do.

And none of them ever have sounded as bad as Jagger at Superbowl halftime.

Willie's just being the outlaw, being trendy. I hope he doesn't lead too many astray. He hasn't much time left to enjoy things, really, and we have a promise regarding those who lead the young astray.

[Fintan]

 

The DC Cowboys are down with it.

[nina0113]

This is part of the song I danced to with my Dad at my wedding (it's not really a danceable song, but it was the one I wanted):

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Holly Dunn, Daddy's Hands:

I remember Daddy's hands, folded silently in prayer
And reaching out to hold me, when I had a nightmare
You could read quite a story in the calluses and lines
Years of work and worry had left their mark behind

Daddy's hands
Were soft and kind when I was crying
Daddy's hands
Were hard as steel when I'd done wrong
Daddy's hands weren't always gentle,
But I've come to understand
There was always love in Daddy's hands

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You'll never get that kind of emotion from any other kind of music.

[ikka]

Really? Not being a country music fan, I must have missed that. All I remember hearing is crying in beer, pickup trucks and cheating spouses.

In 1965 one of the top country hits was by the Louvin Brothers, called "Thank God For My Christian Home" ... don't recall anything similar on the rock charts for that year, or decade.

[Revolting cat!]

Kenny Boy could fit right in!

[mugs99]

Willie's just being the outlaw, being trendy

LOL!
I think you're right!
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[mugs99]

This is part of the song I danced to with my Dad at my wedding

You put a smile on my face...I know you're Dad was proud!
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[mugs99]

don't recall anything similar on the rock charts for that year, or decade

Well, I'm not real big on rock either. Some of my favorite artists are Edie Brickell, Bernadette Seacrest, Melissa Forbes, Mayumi Kaneyuki, Teedra Moses, The Iguanas and...Fats Domino!
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[Oztrich Boy]

In 1965 one of the top country hits was by the Louvin Brothers, called "Thank God For My Christian Home"

65, wasn't that also the year of Dave Dudley's "Truck Drivin' Son of a Gun"?

[mugs99]

Dave Dudley's "Truck Drivin' Son of a Gun"?

LOL!
And "What We're Fighting For" in 65.
Man, what a bunch of geezers we are!
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[sean327]

And trucks, and trains.

I was drunk, the day my mom got outta prison,
I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in my pick-up truck,
She got run over by a damned ol' train.

[jocon307]

LOL! The perfect country and western song!

[GracieRose]

Some of my favorite music is Willie's gospel collection. I have to believe at some level Willie does love the Lord.
I hope and pray he gets things worked out with His maker before his time on earth is over.
I do love Willie like a long time friend, in spite of his "outlaw" ways (I think that's all just show) and his liberal leanings (I think that's all the dope). I see a seed of goodness there.