re: #336 HappyWarrior

Yeah my Dad’s a big alt-country fan. Huge, huge Townes Van Zandt fan. But yeah the commercial country establishment of cheesy patriotism just bothers me. I mean I obviously love my country but those songs are just so tacky.

My ex was into it big for a while, I was especially impressed by Toby Keith’s album White Trash with Money: on the back cover it is dedicated to “our lord and savior, Jesus Christ, while the last song on the album, “Running Block” is about getting drunk and having sex in motel rooms with women he and his buddies had picked up at a bar.

Family values, indeed…