GOIN' UP DA COUNTRY

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ROCK'S ROOTS ARE FIRMLY PLANTED IN SOUTHERN SOIL

LISTEN & LEARN, BRETHREN & SISTERN, LISTEN & LEARN

The Other Side Of R&B: How The Race Wars Were Fought & Won In Music, By Both Sides

Much as we hate to admit it, a lot of what's American about our music got started below the Mason-Dixon Line. Of course, it took St. Louis & Kansas City, NY & Chicago, Detroit & Philly, Boston & SF, LA & Seattle to refine the blend of black African rhythms & white European harmonies. But Nashville & Memphis, New Orleans & Austin, Atlanta & Mussel Shoals, Butcher's Holler & Tupelo, the delta and the hills had a li'l som'in to do with it, too. We guess. Decide for yourself. Check out the other songs linked to each song, too. That oughta keep ya busy for a while.


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YOUTUBE: THE SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS
"Soggy Bottom Boys- I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow"
A classic song from a classic film, the Coen brothers: "O Brother Where Art Thou?"




YOUTUBE: FLATT & SCRUGGS
"Bonnie & Clyde- The Chase"
Arthur Penn, 1967: Another classic song from a classic film. Lester & Earl's "Foggy Mountain Breakdown." Some banjo & fiddle!




YOUTUBE: BILL MONROE
"Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys - Southern Flavor"
Saw this old man pick the Hell out of a mandolin at McCabe's guitar shop back in the day. A high point of my life, still. Coulda been the bourbon...




YOUTUBE: HANK WILLIAMS
"Hank Williams - Honky Tonkin'"
The Father of Country & Western, the Godfather of Rock'N'Roll, he taught 'em all how to dress & how to play, how to live & how to die: Flashy & tragically. The Orpheus of the Appalachians.




YOUTUBE: BOB WILLS
"Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys"
It's Western, and it swings. Get it? A Texas redneck jazz band. Sorta.





YOUTUBE: CHET ATKINS & MERLE TRAVIS
"Chet Atkins and Merle Travis 'Boogie For Cecil' "
The Beatles' favorite guitar players. Da bes'!




YOUTUBE: CARL PERKINS
"Carl Perkins-Matchbox"
He's the one that INVENTED Rockabilly.




YOUTUBE: ELVIS PRESLEY
"ELVIS PRESLEY//Mystery Train"
When the "King" was just a princeling.




YOUTUBE: JEAN SHEPARD
"JEAN SHEPARD SINGS SECOND FIDDLE TO AN GUITAR"
Pickin & grinnin'. And there's YODELIN' too, Maw!




YOUTUBE: KITTY WELLS
"Kitty Wells - Making Believe (1955)"
Imagine Kitty on Star Search today. Pretty enough?




YOUTUBE: PATSY CLINE
"Patsy Cline-Walkin' After Midnight"
This lady can rock, too.




YOUTUBE: LORETTA LYNN
"Loretta Lynn - Fist City"
Feisty. She's just plain ol' feisty!




YOUTUBE: TAMMY WYNETTE
"tammy wynette stand by your man"
The Country girl's National Anthem.




(cross-posted at CoffeeHouseStudio by cosanostradamus)



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MCCAIN VS. SENILITY

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ALZHEIMERS GOES ON THE ATTACK AND WINS THE SECOND DEBATE

MCCAIN SPEWS TALKING POINTS RANDOMLY, DROOLS NOTICEABLY



Conservative Arizona Republican Senator, 104, May Not Make It To Election Day

In the second of three 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign Debates, John Sydney McCain III appeared to break down and lose all touch with reality for brief moments, on several occasions. He actually forgot to mention his former P.O.W. status! He could not remember his three highest priorities without scribbling them down as the moderator reminded him of them. He then said that "some of the $700 billion would end up in the hands of terrorists," apropos of nothing.

Seven hundred billion happens to be the exact amount of Congress's recent Wall Street bail-out. Was McCain saying that there are terrorists on Wall Street? Was he implying that there is so little Congressional control or oversight of Treasury Secretary Paulson that he might deliberately or accidently use the money to fund terrorism? Or was this some imaginary number on some totally unrelated subject that suddenly popped into McSame's very old head as he rambled on incoherently? Who knows? There was no follow up.

It didn't start well: Asked about the bailout in the opening question, McBush went off on a jag about gasoline prices, porkbarrel spending, and his supposed leadership abilities. He never approached the question, leaving the audience, including the guy who asked the question, visibly perplexed. A real senior moment for McNuts.

Then there was the question on violating Pakistan's sovereignty by going across their border to attack Al Qaida and the Taliban on Pakistani soil. McCain seemed to confuse the Russians' war in Afghanistan with our own conflict there. He seemed to be saying that we are in Afghanistan to finish the job the Russians started. He also seemed unaware that the "Freedom Fighters" against the Soviets are in fact today's Taliban and Al Qaida. I know, who can sort all that out? Well, how 'bout the President of the United States of America? Or not...

Finally, McCain reminded me again of the end of "Citizen Cain." You know, where his last dying thoughts return him to his loveless childhood, and a sled made by a company called Rosebud? Of course, Rosebud was actually William Randolph Hearst's pet name for his lover's (opera star wannabee Marion Davies) genitalia. That little private joke pretty much ended boy-genius Orson Welles' career. Let's hope this debate, with its' closing Rosebud moment, ends Citizen McCain's career.

CNN: DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTION #1 (A): Allen Shaffer:
Shaffer: With the economy on the downturn and retired and older citizens and workers losing their incomes, what's the fastest, most positive solution to bail these people out of the economic ruin?

McCain's Response:

' Now, I have a plan to fix this problem and it has got to do with energy independence. We've got to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't want us very -- like us very much. We have to keep Americans' taxes low. All Americans' taxes low. Let's not raise taxes on anybody today. '

CNN: DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
MODERATOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTION #1 (A): Tom Brokaw: Discussion:
Senator, we have one minute for a discussion here. Obviously the powers of the treasury secretary have been greatly expanded. The most powerful officer in the cabinet now. Hank Paulson says he won't stay on. Who do you have in mind to appoint to that very important post?
McCain's Response:

' Not you, Tom. '

CNN: DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
MODERATOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTION #3 (F): Tom Brokaw: Discussion:
There are new economic realities out there that everyone in this hall and across this country understands that there are going to have to be some choices made. Health policies, energy policies, and entitlement reform, what are going to be your priorities in what order? Which of those will be your highest priority your first year in office and which will follow in sequence?
McCain's Response:

' The three priorities were health... '

BROKAW: The three -- health care, energy, and entitlement reform: Social Security and Medicare. In what order would you put them in terms of priorities?

McCain's Response:

' We can work on nuclear power plants. Build a whole bunch of them, create millions of new jobs. We have to have all of the above, alternative fuels, wind, tide, solar, natural gas, clean coal technology. All of these things we can do as Americans and we can take on this mission and we can overcome it. My friends, some of this $700 billion ends up in the hands of terrorist organizations. As far as health care is concerned, obviously, everyone is struggling to make sure that they can afford their premiums and that they can have affordable and available health care. That's the next issue. '

CNN: DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTION 9 (F): KATIE HAMM
"Should the United States respect Pakistani sovereignty and not pursue al Qaeda terrorists who maintain bases there, or should we ignore their borders and pursue our enemies like we did in Cambodia during the Vietnam War?"
McCain's Response:

' Now, let me just go back with you very briefly. We drove the Russians out with -- the Afghan freedom fighters drove the Russians out of Afghanistan, and then we made a most serious mistake. We washed our hands of Afghanistan. The Taliban came back in, Al Qaeda, we then had the situation that required us to conduct the Afghan war. '

CNN: DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
INTERNET (CLOSING) QUESTION: Peggy from New Hampshire
"What don't you know and how will you learn it?"
McCain's Response:

' There are challenges around the world that are new and different and there will be different -- we will be talking about countries sometime in the future that we hardly know where they are on the map, some Americans. So what I don't know is what the unexpected will be. But I have spent my whole life serving this country. I grew up in a family where my father was gone most of the time because he was at sea and doing our country's business. My mother basically raised our family . . . R-o-s-e-b-u-d . . . '

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TOP TEN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE QUESTIONS

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MCCAIN VS OBAMA, CAMPAIGN 2008

WHAT WILL MCBUSH DO TO THE ECONOMY TONIGHT?


To Say Nothing Of The Damage He's Already Done To Race Relations

TO JOHN MCCAIN:

1. Have you ever killed a child?

2. How do you know?

3. When you were a bomber-pilot in Vietnam, were your bombs built to avoid children?

4. Was it a primary part of all your missions to always avoid bombing children?

5. Given the fact that the US Navy & Air Force dropped more bombs on Vietnam than they dropped on Germany & Japan in WWII, and that we still lost the Vietnam War, was that strategic bombing, or just terror-bombing; and doesn't that make you a terrorist, yourself?

6. If Al Qaida crashed a plane in the US after bombing civilians here, would the captured pilot deserve special treatment, or immediate execution?

7. Why did you make propaganda for the Communist North Vietnamese?

8. Do you think it shows good character and judgment to leave a faithful wife after she waited for you for the whole five years you were in prison?

9. Who got luckier in the criminal courts: Cindy McCain after she got caught stealing drugs from children, or you, John McCain, after you got caught peddling influence during the last major banking crisis?

10. Do you think either one of you belongs in the White House? Then why did you call your wife a "c*nt" in front of reporters?

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