NASHVILLE - The songwriters hunched over hamburgers and sweet iced tea at Brown's Diner allowed that a cut titled I'm Takin' My Country Back by the Honky Tonkers for Truth sounded like a hit to them.
But they don't expect it to get any airplay on country music radio stations, mainly because of lyrics like these:
"And I'm takin' my country back/Boys you ain't been doin' her right/Oh, I've been watching you and I don't like/How you been treating my Stars and Stripes.
"You took our jobs and sent 'em overseas/Now we owe billions to the Red Chinese/You blew the budget and you botched Iraq/So I'm taking my country back."
The song is one of 20 on a CD released online by the Music Row Democrats, an organization of country music songwriters, singers, executives and promoters dedicated to helping oust the Republican majority in Congress in the November elections.
Conservative Christian Right-Wing Republican Straight White American Male is another cut on the CD by Todd Snider, an artist who arrived in Nashville after stops in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta. Or, as Snider describes himself "a tree-huggin,' peace-lovin', pot-smokin', porn-watchin' . . . hippie."
Not your typical county music song or singer.
While conceding that country music is widely perceived as a bastion of conservative politics, the Democratic group claims a membership of about 1,200 in "the industry," including a slew of down-home liberals.
In their mission statement, the Country Music Democrats say their founders "were fed up with feeling as if they had to apologize for being Democrats."
About fuckin' time! It was time to come out of the closet years ago, but I understand about radio airplay and making a living in country music. I'm glad they're doing it at last.
I guess when Hag comes out, the rest of 'em feel it's safe.
When the country DJs, and more importantly, the radio station owners, wise up that their listeners ain't buyin' Bush's bullshit any more, it'll all be over.
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