Ok, this is Grade A Bullshit

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

I mean, all of it, the original and the cover, but why everytime do I hear it, I feel a tug to a country existence i never had. Is this the key ot country music?

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[koganbot]

Well, the lyrics piss me off, 'cause they touch on symbols and themes without bothering to tell an actual story, so the effect is too much like advertising, a bunch of stock images meant to produce a stock response. (Rodney Atkins does the same thing all over his recent album, and that pisses me off even more 'cause he's actually an excellent story teller, when he tries.) It's an old theme, economic displacement, but it's produced excellent stories (Bobby Bare's "By day I make the cars, by night I make the bars" still touches me after all these years) and ought to produce more. So yes, this is Grade A Bullshit, and its incipient guns-and-freedom politics results in votes for people who generally oppose government planning and regulation, i.e., steps to do something about economic dislocation. But the guy can sing and the musical setting is fine, very direct, get the job done.

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

i mean Turner is a great story teller, given the chance too...and i mean that one line by Bare has been sort of central to me in the last couple of weeks, i have been thinking about it in relation to of course Ford, etc and i qouted it in my review of John Rich, so...

[koganbot]

When you said "Ford" at first I thought you meant John, then I thought you might mean Henry.

(I don't suppose Glenn is relevant, though I was discussing Blackboard Jungle the other day.)

[koganbot]

Here's the original.