Posted on 10/14/2005 4:41:59 AM PDT by chambley1
"Smart" is knowing things. "Wise" is knowing what they mean. Hence my distinction.
Dan
I'm not a fan of country music but I've always admired the musicianship of the song. I love a good fiddle-riff, probably why I prefer bluegrass to country. And I've got a lot of respect for Daniels--the statements I quoted are typical of him. Good, common sense.
Yeah, some of those "country boys" can fool ya'. Just because they don't quote Augustine or C.S. Lewis doesn't necessarily mean they haven't read and understood it.
Removing this song from the band's playlist because it has a reference to the devil makes as much sense as censoring the Bible because it mentions the devil. It's the context that's important! Whoever wrote that letter to the editor needs valium.
Yeah, I think it's a fun song musically too. I like good fiddling. (Old Sons of the Pioneers had some of the funnest, jazziest fiddling.) My comments were just on its idea, IF (as I said) one were to take it seriously.
Dan
LOL . . . The devil is a Frenchman?
Nice touch.
I'm not sure I said he could play it... but that was a primary motivating factor in his decision to take strings.
What was truly hilarious was the time he printed the sheet music off the Internet and brought it to school so his Birkenstock wearing lefty-wacko music teacher could teach him how to play it.
I haven't been so proud of him since he did a book report on "The Savage Nation" back in the 3rd grade.
Years ago, I played the records backward...it repeatedly says, "Chesney is the Antichrist."
How did we get from a letter to the editor making a rhetorical point presumably in favor of Amazing Grace (et al) to prohibiting DWD2G?
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