Bobbie Nelson, Willie Nelson’s talented sister, died Thursday morning at her home in Austin, Texas. A post on Willie’s Instagram said she “died peacefully and surrounded by family.” No cause of death was given, although she had been recently hospitalized….
The people who control American pop culture hate Americans. That sounds stupid, and of course it is, but it’s certainly true. Take, for example, country singer Morgan Wallen. And, while we’re at it, actress Gina Carano. In Wallen’s case, the…
News has just reached me, puzzling news indeed, that Garth Brooks will be performing Wednesday at Sleepy Joe Biden’s inauguration. Good thing I was sitting down when I read about this truly eccentric career move. If Garth is gathering Wednesday…
Country music fans (count me in) are mourning the loss of one of the great ones. Country Charley Pride lost his battle with COVID Saturday in Dallas. He was 86. Pride, who had a rich baritone country sound, enjoyed a…
Dwight Yoakam had me in tears Sunday night. I was watching the new Ken Burns PBS documentary series about the history of country music, and Yoakam quoted a Merle Haggard song, “Holding Things Together,” which is about a man trying…
In my last article I wrote on the need for climate change and diversity on American college and university campuses to counter and offset the truly “McCarthyite” suppression of ideas and opinions that now poison the contemporary American college and university experience. Inter alia, I also…
It must have been horrifically awful for homosexuals, as they then were known, in the 1950s. If their orientations or preferences were exposed, they were finished. Their jobs were over. Their marriages were over. Their very lives often were over….
It’s worse than we thought. Later than we thought. The totalitarian PC enforcers have even established a beachhead in country music. COUNTRY MUSIC!! Darkness and devils! Hives and hemorrhoids! Is anything or anywhere safe? Country has always been the music…
It’s worse than we thought. Later than we thought. The totalitarian PC enforcers have even established a beachhead in country music. COUNTRY MUSIC!! Darkness and devils! Hives and hemorrhoids! Is anything or anywhere safe? Country has always been the music…
Record producer, songwriter and session player Lincoln “Chips” Moman died yesterday, a day after his 79th birthday. After cutting his teeth as a session and tour player with Johnny Burnette (“You’re Sixteen”) and later as a producer with Stax Records,…