Tag: country music

Oliver Anthony

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“You know how to gain a victory; you do not know how to use it.” Those are the famous words Maharbal, a commander in the Carthaginian army, told Hannibal after they had achieved a momentous success on the battlefield at Cannae. Whether or not Maharbal really did utter the admonishment does not matter. (more…)

Jason Aldean (left) and Andre Longmore

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Georgia-Born Country Singer Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” Video Gets Banned for Being “Racist”; Meanwhile, Black Man Kills Four White People in a Small Georgia Town

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Last weekend, Greg Johnson welcomed Jim Goad back to Counter-Currents Radio to talk about Jim’s newly-reissued zine Answer Me!, the zine culture of the 1990s, Jim’s karaoke fundraiser for Counter-Currents, and listener questions, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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The sound of much country music these days is bland and monotonous. The lyrics often seem to be written with commercial use in mind as they concern products, such as “my beer,” “my truck,” and so on. I especially dislike the song “I Can Fix a Drink.” Here is a sample of the lyrics: (more…)

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The recent movie on Elvis Presley[1] is exceptional in its acting, script, and production. For those interested in such matters, it is also excellent as cultural history.

The movie deals to a significant extent with the African influences on Presley’s music. As a little boy growing up in a poor, integrated neighborhood, he was fascinated by the rhythms and gyrations of the blacks, including black gospel music. (more…)

Morgan Wallen

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Back in the mid-1990s when Tiger Woods took the golf world by storm and the American press was enraptured with the Earth-shifting progress that having a splash of melanin on the putting green signified, I can’t recall hearing a single black person joyously exclaiming, “Lawdy me and Land o’ Goshen, it’s about goddamned time a brother won the Masters!”

I never knew blacks to care much for golfing. (more…)

A compilation tape showing Joe Rogan, shown here groveling for forgiveness, dropping 24 n-bombs in 29 seconds may be the new world record holder.

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“Rogan” Spelled Backwards Is “Nagor”

Is there even a remote mathematical possibility that “Reggin” sounds a lot like “Rogan,” but when you spell “Reggin” backwards, it’s the most awful word in the English language?

Not too long ago, massively successful podcaster Joe Rogan made sport of how people timidly say “the N-word” instead of “nigger” due to a medievally superstitious amount of power accorded to the word by the people who not only demand you never say it, but who will attempt to socially murder you if you have ever said it, no matter how innocent the context. (more…)