[apillar]

He's been pretty much blacklisted from main steam country for the last 15 years or so.

It's my understanding that he is an avowed communist and his latest album praises John Walker the american taliban guy.

[drjimmy]

It's my understanding that he is an avowed communist and his latest album praises John Walker the american taliban guy.
You understand incorrectly. He's a die-hard liberal, but not of the Communist variety (I know most here will consider there to be no difference, but I believe that there is.). His song does not praise John Walker, it is written in Walker's voice, just like a guy named Johnny Cash wrote in the voice of a man in Folsom Prison:
When I was just a baby, my mama told me, "Son,
Always be a good boy; don't ever play with guns."
But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry.
I disagree with most of Steve Earle's political positions, but I do not consider him unpatriotic based on the John Walker song.

[John T. Kennedy]

He's been pretty much blacklisted from main steam country for the last 15 years or so.

I don't think he's been blacklisted, his music simply isn't mainstream country music. He's too influenced by hard rock to be on country radio stations much. And he's too country to make it into the rock mainstream.