-=> Bob Klahn wrote to Dave Drum <=-


 DD> Perhaps they ought to listen to (and pay attention to) some
 DD> good ol' rock & roll. Couple songs by a couple of my
 DD> favourite performers seems to sum all of this up succinctly

 BK>  ...

 DD> Glenn Frey and Don Henley

 DD> And the song says "so why don't you quit?" and the reply is
 DD> "I have to get in the last word." And it goes on and on and
 DD> on and on ... to the point of nausea.

 BK>  I don't much care for country music, there is little of it I
 BK>  really like. I wasn't much of a Johnny Cash fan, but I had a lot
 BK>  of respect for him as a person. That started when Richard Nixon
 BK>  asked Cash to come to the Whitehouse and sing the song, Welfare
 BK>  Cadillac.

Bob Seger and The Eagles are hardly country by any cogent estimation. Johnny
Cash, OTOH, grew up in Dyess, AR and picked cotton with his family long before
he picked a guitar.
 
 BK>  Cash refused. He said he knew too many poor people he would not
 BK>  sign on to trashing them.

 BK>  Turning down the president of the US on principle like that
 BK>  deserves respect.

Johnny Cash was a helluva guy and a huge bundle of contradictions. After all
the drug and alcohol problems he had during his life it was undiagnosed
diabetes that did him in. He was the first one I heard make the statement that
country music is "just white man's blues". I don't think that was
original with
him, however.

ENJOY!!!

From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
Home of YAHOOOOAHHHH Hot Sauce & Hardin Cider 

 

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