First thing, go here:
http://musicrowdemocrats.com/
One of the many things John Kerry was clueless about in his impotent run for the presidency was the effect of country music on red state voters. The same way he looked like a deer in the headlights about "Fahrenheit 911" that fool also missed an opportunity to attach himself to a great song that could have been an anthem for getting rid of Bush and Cheney. It was "Taking My Country Back." I thought it was a great song, well performed and one that kicked those Republican SOBs right where they deserved to be kicked.
Moderate and liberal writers, performers, agents and "executives" of country music are frustrated by radio stations that will not play anything that isn't Republican Conservative hypocrisy. So, on Musc Row in Nashville, TN there are Democrats with balls. See the NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/...
Bobby Braddock, tells the NY Times:
Asked whether his recent song "Thou Shalt Not Kill" would have airplay, Mr. Braddock said, "Oh, never."
"Something political will not get played on country radio unless it's on the conservative side," he added. "If you show both sides, it's not good enough. It's got to be just on the right."
So, do they just give up against Republicans? Do the Kerry the issue?
Democrats on Music Row, the country music capital here, have grown frustrated with that reputation. A group of record-company executives, talent managers and artists has released an online compilation of 20 songs, several directly critical of Mr. Bush and the Iraq war.
The price for the set is $20, with most of the proceeds going to the group, which calls itself Music Row Democrats and is using the money to support local and national candidates who share its values.
The songwriter Darrell Scott contributed "Goodle U.S.A." Faith Hill had recorded it under a different name and without the line "It's like Joe McCarthy was our acting president."
Mr. Scott recently recorded a new song, "W Cheese," in a basement studio at Famous Music on Music Row. One verse ends, "They filled our plate with freedom fries, red, black and blue, white lies/And a helping, heaping, hating size of stinkin' W cheese."
Sounds like the 50s of Joe McCarthy and Nixon.
"I felt like at the time of the Dixie Chicks, as outraged as I was at the whole thing, I couldn't say anything, because I'd put artists that I'm associated with in jeopardy," said Luke Lewis, co-chairman of the Universal Music Group. "They might not go on the radio or a lot of other places."
The hypocrisy is rampant as "they" think it's proper for the Republican Party to use country music at political events and the popularity of patriotic songs like Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (the Angry American)."
Mr. Keith's publicity agent, Elaine Schock, said his conservative reputation was a result of the times. He is a lifelong Democrat, Ms. Schock said, and the perception of him as conservative is a "myth."
"I think when you have a war," she said, "people want you to be on one side or the other."
Bush never wants to end this war while he's president because having our men and women dying on the battlefields is his only defense or only distraction against impeachment. Maybe there should be a few songs about that!
Once again, go to the Music Row Democrats Cite and donate $20 to let the clueless Democrat Party, it's time they get their heads out of their butts and wake up to some very good and intelligent people in the red states.
http://musicrowdemocrats.com/