Posted on 07/28/2018 10:40:43 AM PDT by rktman
Country music star Eric Church is making his feelings about the NRA very clear—and they aren’t pleasant.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the signer cast blame on the NRA for Congress’ lack of action after the Las Vegas massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history that left 58 people dead and more than 800 injured.
“I blame the lobbyists,” Church told the magazine. "And the biggest in the gun world is the NRA.”
Church was a headliner at the Route 91 Harvest Festival where the shooting took place, performing just two nights earlier. His fans were among the victims, and, understandably, it got to him.
“It got dark for me for a while,” the signer admitted. “I went through a period, a funk, for six months at least. I had anger. I’ve still got anger. Something broke in me that night, and it still hasn’t healed. There’s a part of me that hopes it haunts me forever.”
The shooting also seems to have warped his views on firearms a bit, although Church still claims he’s “a Second Amendment guy" who owns about half a dozen rifles, shotguns and pistols.
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He’s bro-country, with a shift toward alt-country, both awful bastardizations of traditional country music. There are reasonable descriptions of both subgenres on the web.
Hey stupid singer boy ! The NRA didn’t shoot anybody or endorse it.
A sicko used INANIMATE OBJECTS and used them attached to his sick mind to kill and maim.
GEEZE I’m really tired of STUPID PEOPLE!
“Country Singer Blasts...”
Isn’t that a little insensitive? Why is he “blasting?” The bodies haven’t been dead a whole year and he is using this inflammatory verbiage. And Why was the shooting taking place when his rival Jason Alden’s was on the stage, and not him? Hm??? Very suspicious.
I’ll readily agree to that.
Many of the old country music stars had their self inflicted demons, but at least they wrote great country songs and played great country music and stayed the hell away from topics they knew nothing about.
This new breed are a bunch of damned liberal pajama boy SJW frauds in glitter jeans with fake drawls and forced twang.
He may look up to Springsteen but he seems to be emulating George Michael. When did the three-day growth of facial hair come back in style?
Tom Petty (who died the same day as the Las Vegas shootings) once referred to modern country music as "Bad Southern Rock with a fiddle" - and I think even that was a charitable assessment.
“””””””””””“Something broke in me that night, and it still hasn’t healed.”
Logic? Reason?””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
He sounds like a fag, Jim.
Ah, thank you. I understand the distinctions, but didn’t keep up with the players, couldn’t stomach the one side making a caricature of the music, and the other side trying to undermine the “meta” meaning of country music. I liked a couple of Gillian Welch’s songs, but I knew I had to look no deeper than hearing her voice if I was to appreciate her music on its face. It was too difficult, so I stick to the old stuff. I loved the “outlaws”, Waylon and Tompall Glaser, and later Hank Jr’s earliest “outlaw” type stuff, but oh my God what they’ve wrought.
That was why I used the guitar analogy about hitting a wrong note. It ain’t the strings or guitar. Probably that “country boy” would not survive. Despite owing half a dozen rifles, shotguns and pistols. What a slacker. Half a dozen. Pffftttt!
Uh oh. I looked it up. Seems I love bro-country. But look at it from my perspective. I’m a city girl and only started liking country 6 years ago. And I love the simplicity of love and the ease of country life BECAUSE I WAS EXPOSED TO IT IN MY CHILDHOOD VACATIONS and it seems more real than the lefty city BS surrounding me. I needed country music to come along in my life when I was going through hard days, and it’s helped.
With that said, I’d like ONE of the girls sung about to NOT be getting drunk. I’d like ONE of the guys to not be driving a truck. I’d like a little more riffing off the formulaic but yeah, I like the guys still wanting to have fun, with actual girls too! It’s refreshing! I’m gonna go out and get in my non-truck vehicle right now, sober, and listen to some Highway XM. In the big city.
But when a muzzie yells “allahu akbar” while lopping off heads, his type will turn themselves inside out to try to disassociate the muzzie murderer from islam.
The classic country artists generally had the roots required to give country music its heart and soul. I don’t think that many people these days have those kinds of connections, the world’s just too homogenous now, in spite of all the “diversity”.
Too charitable, because good Southern rock can be really great, all branches of it (Allman Bros jazz-style jamming, Skynyrd barroom rock, Atlanta Rhythm Section adult contemporary, etc).
One new C&W song has the lyrics of “doesn’t matter who you love” or some sort of homo crap thing in it. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was him.
The are some young country singers who are being true to the genre, but not many.
The left have taken over the country music industry in Nashville. It’s completely changed from 20 years ago.
If you don’t play to the left’s tune, you don’t succeed in Nashville.
I know that there must be, and a few years ago I was still trying to sift through the dross and find them, but I feel like I’m too old now (get off my lawn! lol) to waste the time, when there’s so much old stuff that I’ve even yet to hear, and I already know I won’t have put up my guard to listen to it.
I looked them up.
Sounds like something I definitely wouldn’t like.
Like the man said...Don’t rock the jukebox!
“Ey! Wit da New Joisey jokes already! I live hea’ ya know! :-)
““Ey! Wit da New Joisey jokes already! I live hea’ ya know!”/
Sorry about that mate...I know there are normal people there. I have the same problem here behind the brown curtain in illannoy.
That’s ok, one likes what one likes. If you have Sirius XM, maybe try some of the other country stations — traditional, outlaw, bluegrass, etc.
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