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Middle America's soul:If you want to understand (USA), turn that dial to a country-music station
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Posted on 12/24/2006 4:06:27 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
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To: InvisibleChurch
Middle America's soul:If you want to understand (USA), turn that dial to a country-music stationI don't think America's soul repeats itself every two hours.
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posted on
12/24/2006 4:12:46 PM PST
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: InvisibleChurch
Football and country music.
Whisky, BBQ and Free Republic.
Works for me. (And it's better than anything French.)
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posted on
12/24/2006 4:31:57 PM PST
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Our troops are smart. It's our politicians who are stupid.)
To: NaughtiusMaximus
I'd rather listen to a dying calf in a hail storm.
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posted on
12/24/2006 4:37:01 PM PST
by
Comus
To: NaughtiusMaximus
To: InvisibleChurch
No modern American politician would dare be so sniffy about country music. On the other hand, it's a whole lot better than it used to be. I can just about remember it in the 1950s and the chorus of every song seemed to be:
Oh Lord,
I'm so sorry
For myself.
The funny thing is that, kid that I was, I liked it. Which is now a little embarrassing.
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posted on
12/24/2006 4:40:53 PM PST
by
Grut
To: InvisibleChurch
Good article that is very true. I do have to make one minor correction:
"So you can let yourself go on Saturday night without much risk that you'll wind up in hospital and unable to drive the kids to school on Monday morning. Country folk are sensible, mostly."
That should read "and unable to drive your kids to church on Sunday Morning".
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posted on
12/24/2006 4:43:50 PM PST
by
DugwayDuke
(Conservative have so many principles that they won't even vote for themselves.)
To: Comus
"I'd rather listen to a dying calf in a hailstorm."
Suit yourself, but the Country-Western singers are the only ones likely to make up a song about that.
VietVet
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posted on
12/24/2006 4:54:46 PM PST
by
VietVet
(I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
To: InvisibleChurch
Actually, this is quite a good article.
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posted on
12/24/2006 5:04:05 PM PST
by
McGavin999
(Don't bring what you ran away from to my home state-Freeper WatchingInAmazement)
To: InvisibleChurch
Country's Cool.....good article thank you for the post.
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posted on
12/24/2006 5:21:34 PM PST
by
Kimmers
(It's not what you take when you leave this world behind, it's what you leave behind when you go)
To: NaughtiusMaximus
To: Comus
Country is a very wide definition, goes from hillbilly to folk style ballads. Some I love, some I can't stand. More than anything else, it tends to be music that tells stories, which I tend to like in whatever genre.
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posted on
12/24/2006 5:36:50 PM PST
by
Starwolf
To: InvisibleChurch
Excellent article. I was never into country music but since moving back from Los Angeles I've become addicted to it. Yet, it's not the true, pure country music as in the past. That I didn't care for so much. I'll take Gretchen Wilson over Britney Spears, and, JoeDon Rooney (yum) over any of the male singers any day!
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posted on
12/24/2006 5:39:19 PM PST
by
peggybac
(Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
To: InvisibleChurch
Homos like Keith Urban and Kenny Chesney, and liberals like Faith and Tim don't tell me about middle America's soul.
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posted on
12/24/2006 5:44:29 PM PST
by
Archie Bunker on steroids
(We'll stay out of your bedrooms, if you stay out of our children's classrooms.)
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
WHAT??!!
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posted on
12/24/2006 5:48:07 PM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(People get ready . . .)
To: InvisibleChurch
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posted on
12/24/2006 5:49:17 PM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
To: Comus
I'd rather listen to a dying calf in a hail storm. Webb Pierce wrote a song about that...
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posted on
12/24/2006 5:53:25 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: InvisibleChurch
Ok, I have to post this old country music joke:
What do you get when you play country music backwards?
You get your wife back, your dog back and your truck back. :)
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posted on
12/24/2006 6:04:31 PM PST
by
Reddy
To: La Enchiladita
I love C/W, but not the crap Nashville is sticking us with.
Th ecurrents I like are Worley, Trace Adkins, Strait, Alan Jackson and a couple of others. I do not like the ones I mentioned in the previous post for obvios reasons.
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posted on
12/24/2006 6:15:19 PM PST
by
Archie Bunker on steroids
(We'll stay out of your bedrooms, if you stay out of our children's classrooms.)
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
I LOVE Alan Jackson!!! LOOOOOVVVVVEEE.........HIM!!
My all time favorite, my main man, died some time ago:
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posted on
12/24/2006 6:28:50 PM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(People get ready . . .)
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