Comments on: WHY YOU SHOULD HATE TENNESSEE: COUNTRY MUSIC

By: Papa Lou BSU

Papa Lou BSU — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:08:55 +0000

+100 cocktails to #99.

I’m a lifelong Northerner, an unapologetic big-city blue-stater, and a guy whose iPod consists mostly of punk, alternative, hip-hop and old-school jazz.

But listening to Lucero’s “Tennessee” album makes me want to trade it all in for a rusty pick-up, a dirt road lined with kudzu and a ramshackle roadhouse where the only type of beer they serve is “the kind in cans.”

Some seriously good shit, right there.

By: Three Days of Orange

Three Days of Orange — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:16:06 +0000

Just remember boys and girls, Deliverance was filmed in Georgia.

And if any of you wants to argue that point, I challenge you to make whitewater canoe trip in Northern Georgia without being man-raped – you can take Burt Reynolds if you want, but he’s older now and his aim with the bow has suffered from his EtOH palsy.

By the way, it is hate-week. Can we smack talk some football? Accusing Tennessee of being too-redneck is like accusing Canada of being too far north. Besides, isn’t this an SEC rivalry? Are you really claiming to not be a redneck/hillbilly/orange-mound-homeboy? Are you from New Hampshire? The SEC is redneck/hillbilly/orange-mound by the grace of God. I detect some “self-hating” in these above posts – either that or yankee “piling on.”

I submit the following in defense of my state:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQ09pNNjaM

3dayz

By: Knoxlaw

Knoxlaw — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:47:17 +0000

For what it’s worth, most Knoxvillians dislike Nashville as well.

By: SmoothJimmyApollo

SmoothJimmyApollo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:50:32 +0000

Spooky rural murder???

You’ve got it. I don’t have the patience to read all of the replies, so this may well have been posted already.

Knoxville Girl. Originally written by somebody, popularly performed by Nick Cave. As all good country songs are.

I hate Tennessee as well, but thank God for Steve Earle.

By: Because They Can

Because They Can — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:36:15 +0000

To be fair, Chris Knight has written a Nashville hit or two…”She Couldn’t Change Me” that Montgomery-Gentry did, for instance. But that does not diminish his greatness one bit.

By: Crawtater

Crawtater — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:35:09 +0000

@ 30, 107

To borrow from an aphoristic U.E. McGill musing: It’s a fool that looks for logic in the pages of a CF blog.

By: Douche McFuckstick

Douche McFuckstick — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:29:53 +0000

BOBBBBB…THHAT…HEEEEEEEEAAAAADDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!

By: shanensga

shanensga — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:12:52 +0000

The Drive By Truckers are in Athens now, but their roots are in Muscle Shoals, and they run deep. Preston Hood’s Dad and Uncle were studio musicians there along with old Spooner, now playing keyboards for DBT. Great band, more southern rock than country, though hey can rock the hell out of a country number. DBT knows the dark side of living in the South, and some of their stuff is southern gothic. Like a Faulkner novel. As to what is played on country stations now, it is crap. That is nothing new, with all the good rock and roll available in the sixtys and early seventies most stations still played bubble gum crap. It was designed to appeal to pre-teen and early teen girls, just like what passes for country today. To quote P T Barnum, “nobdy ever went broke by underestimating the American public.>

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:10:33 +0000

Jim White, “The Wound that Never Heals.” Not exactly country, but the murders are definitely creepy. On the album, “No Such Place.”

By: SpartanDan

SpartanDan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:55:55 +0000

There are exactly two tolerable country songs: “Friends in Low Places” and “The Thunder Rolls”. Everything else is worse than rap – and believe me, that’s hard to do.

A bumper sticker the local rock station was handing out at the State Fair 5 years ago said it best: “Discourage Inbreeding – Ban Country Music”.

By: PFreak

PFreak — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:48:55 +0000

A-fuckin’-men! That shit they try to pass off now as country is closer to Boston than George Jones. It sucks.

By: poguemahone

poguemahone — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:04:09 +0000

Springsteen’s Nebraska is an entire album about Spooky Rural Murders, man.

I grew up with country thanks to my Dad, but grew out of it once I passed the age of reason. To me, country music is Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Woody Nelson, and a whole bunch of absolute Rhinestone Cowboy shit outside of that.

By: Sutpen

Sutpen — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:57:46 +0000

“We would kill someone for a good song about spooky rural murder”

The best such song belongs to Tom Waits: Murder in the Red Barn, off of the solid-from-top-to-bottom Bone Machine album.

By: jakldawg

jakldawg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:46:55 +0000

How about some rural violence BY a country music singer?
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080918/TUNEIN/80918077/-1/RSS05

By: The Stos

The Stos — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:34:38 +0000

Thanks, that was very on point. I can’t believe the shit they put out today sells millions and millions of copies.

Chris Knight rights bad ass songs about rural murder, and the shitty life of the poor, and it’s not just some corporate conjecture, he grew up in a mining town in kentucky….ouch.