Meet the queer vanguard of country music

CNN ^ | Scottie Andrew

[SaxxonWoods]

“Stafford is gay? That’s the first I ever heard of that.”

Standing joke after he wrote “My Girl Bill”.

He was married at least twice, once to Bobbie Gentry for about a year I think.

[refermech]

There are plenty of musicians that I really like, and really hate their politics. I can still enjoy the music though. there will always be these misfits. Who am I to judge.

[SaxxonWoods]

“The left can’t wait to ruin country music, like they ruin everything else.”

One of my early teachers liked to say, “There’s no such thing as bad music, just bad musicians.”

Good music lives on.

[Carriage Hill]

Needs a BARF ALERT!

[smalltownslick]

“Stafford? Really.”

That was my reaction too. He was married to Bobbie Gentry.

From the past there was Teddy Wilburn and probably Wilma Burgess. But they weren’t exactly out. Just minded their own business and made good music.

[raygunfan]

They won because they were gay, not because the music was do damn country..........pushing the gay lifestyle as if it is normal, and giving out ince prestigious awards is, if you will, a backdoor way, of making it “acceptable “

[Fiji Hill]

The Lavender Cowboy--Bob Skyles & His Skyrockets (1937)

[Vendome]

I could careless if they are gay.

Sing...

[BudgieRamone]

Not from the 90s but guy I like and halfway follow countrywise is a Canadian singer, Corb Lund. Try: Good Copenhagen, Tool for the Job, Keep an Edge on Your Knife, and Roughest Neck Around-—a song about oilfield workers, dedicated to his brother

[Fiji Hill]

I have never heard of any of these people. i'm not joking. I listen to a lot of music at work, in my car and at home. Not one of these names are familiar. Did I somehow dodge a musical bullet?

I haven't either. But I don't listen all that much to the music of today.

[Da Coyote]

We are so blessed to have such a prestigious and influential network dedicated to sniffing out the important and not to be ignored things in life, rather than boring things like inflation, corruption, and a collection of “leaders” who’d bankrupt a lemonade stand. Well, at least they gave us a look at the second definition of “bareback”.

[Vendome]

Freddy Mercury and country music?

That would be awesome

[smalltownslick]

And I don’t get the Amarillo By Morning reference. What am I missing here?

[Scott Kraut]

And the “Great American Freak Show” continues to expand. All the pervs gotta fag up everything!

[Tell It Right]

Somehow “queer in my beer” just doesn’t sound the same. LOL

[Always A Marine]

You’re limiting yourself.

Isn't that what the serpent said to Eve?

[Covenantor]

Bingo !

[farming pharmer]

I haven't either. But I don't listen all that much to the music of today.

As I've gotten older, I listen to far more instrumental music, whether electronic or traditional instruments.

Popular 'music' these days IMHO is a bunch of no-talent hacks masturbating to their own voices with a crappy back beat. Sickening really.

[SaxxonWoods]

Yeah joking, see #41. Gentry was a short marriage, his first was long. Don’t know about after that.

[Michael.SF.]

LOL. Beat me to it.