Posted on 03/06/2018 7:09:43 AM PST by Kaslin
One of country music’s most powerful executives, says gun-toting, Bible-clinging fans like former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are no longer welcome.
The controversy started when the Country Music Association triggered a massive outbreak of microaggressions after they appointed Huckabee to the board of its charitable foundation.
Huckabee has been a longtime supporter of music education so his appointment to a charitable board that supports music programs for young people was a perfect fit.
However, a mob of social justice warriors, led by openly gay country music executive Jason Owen, protested – calling Huckabee’s appointment “grossly offensive” and “heartbreaking.”
“This man has made it clear that my family is not welcome in his America,” the owner of Sandbox Entertainment wrote in a letter to the CMA. “And the CMA has opened their arms to him, making him feel welcome and relevant.”
Owen, whose roster includes Faith Hill, Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves and Midland, threatened to pull out of the CMA Foundation over Huckabee’s appointment.
“Huckabee speaks of the sort of things that would suggest my family is morally beneath his and uses language that has a profoundly negative impact upon young people all across this country,” he wrote.
For the record, Huckabee is a born-again, Southern Baptist preacher who follows the teachings of the Holy Bible. And that includes the Bible’s directives on marriage.
Owen also objected to the former governor’s involvement with the National Rifle Association calling it “harmful and damaging.”
“What a shameful choice,” he wrote. “I will not participate in any organization that elevates people like this to positions that amplify their sick voices.”
Less than 24 hours later, Huckabee resigned from the CMA Foundation Board and wrote an open letter to the industry titled “Hate Wins.”
“If the industry doesn’t want people of faith or who hold conservative and traditional political views to buy tickets and music, they should be forthcoming and say it,” Huckabee wrote.
Huckabee said he did not want the controversy to overshadow the good work of the foundation – helping children.
“All of us have deep passions about our beliefs. I do about mine. But I hate no one,” he wrote. “I wish upon NO ONE the loss of life or livelihood because that person sees things differently than me.”
Has it really come to this, America? Must we renounce our religious beliefs and bow down to those who will not tolerate tolerance?
“I hope that the music and entertainment industry will become more tolerant and inclusive and recognize that a true love for kids having access to the arts is more important than a dislike for someone or a group of people because of who they are or what they believe,” Huckabee wrote.
I’d be willing to bet a gallon of sweet tea and a bucket of chicken that a good many country music fans go to church, own a gun and share the same beliefs as Gov. Huckabee.
That’s why there are more country music songs about God and pickup trucks and honky-tonks instead of Chevy Volts and juice bars.
Folks, I’d be lying if I said I was not concerned about Gov. Huckabee’s public flogging. As difficult as it may be we have to ask whether the country music industry has been overrun by a bunch of anti-Christian, gun-hating bullies.
I certainly hope that is not the case, but one thing is mighty clear – we’re not in Hee Haw anymore.
>> If country music has been infiltrated by the GSS we are really in some serious trouble <<
Agreed. But it’s also in trouble if it’s infected and infiltrated by the likes of Huckster Huckabee. He needs to retire to his Florida mansion and stay there.
There’s less competition in Country Music - it’s like the trans ‘girl’ who wins in wrestling... easy for a boy pretending to be a girl to win...
Lots of liberals joined the ranks of Country Music seeing it as the “B” team - and an easy win.
Traditional C&W has roots in Europe and, with country swing in the ‘40s, blues and jazz mixed in. Jazz is the only music that’s truly American.
On the lighter brighter side, if liberals take over country music we have a better chance of NOT being murdered in Las Vegas...
>> Little Jimmy Dickens would probably be upset, about what has happened in Nashville <<
Word on the street is that the Late Little JD was interviewed in Nashville by Ken Burns’ crew a few years ago, for Burns’ forthcoming PBS documentary on country music.
So stay tuned, because whenever the show eventually airs, LJD may give us the opinion you’re wondering about!
You mentioned bluegrass, see my post #100.
Problem is country swing and country are different..... musically. Country swing is swing done by country artists. Different chord structures etc. Calling country swing “country” is no different than calling today’s country pop “country”. Just my opinion.
>> It started going downhill when this jerk off came on the scene <<
Beat me to it. Garth Brooks may have been the worst influence of them all.
Country music ain’t had a good song since “Grandma got run over by a reindeer”.
It has been extremely obvious for a long time that Country Music is Pop Music with a Cowboy Hat. And it has no room for Christians, gun-owners, or people who notice mammals include males and females.
Hick-Hop and Tractor-Rap
It’s the nature of any organization, sooner or later it becomes corrupt. Country music is fine, though it’s not going to be found where one would expect.
Yes, and that’s an insult to Southern Rock.
“Just Want to Thank You Lord,” Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers.
Spark’s deep Christian faith is evident in this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIfLmbTx0g
Who’s gonna fill their shoes
Who’s gonna stand that tall
Who’s gonna play the Opry
And the Wabash Cannonball
Who’s gonna give their heart and soul
To get to me and you
Lord I wonder, who’s gonna fill their shoes
>> Jazz is the only music that’s truly American <<
Jazz combines African-derived rhythms with European harmony. You could say that the combination occurred only here, so that qualifies as “truly American.”
But you can say pretty much the same thing about another quintessential American musical form, the Broadway show. It happened only here, but yet it combined European dramatic and operatic conventions with jazz, ragtime and American “pop music” influences.
Or what about the Delta Blues? The original performers and creators were all African-descended plantation sharecroppers. But their ancestors had left Africa centuries earlier, and their blues music shows almost no trace of African influence except maybe for the use of flatted thirds and sevenths in the melodies.
(Even African-style rhythms are not much used in Delta Blues.)
Finally, what music is more American than the marches of John Phillip Sousa? True enough that his ancestors were Portuguese. But his music? Not American? You gotta be kidding.
>> Country swing is swing done by country artists <<
Do you mean “western” swing?
That’s what I call jazz-with-a-pedal-steel.
Love it!
You are correct.
There’s a difference between made in America and what the rest of the world thinks ‘sounds American’.
eye wash please
Good, that means I have a better chance with hot divorcee Miranda Lambert.
yep, that’s what I’m talking about
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