I was Johnny's nurse many times in the hospital. He was a very nice man. Not pretentious or condescending. June was a character. Right before her heart surgery she had us cracking up.
Kris Kristofferson, a Rhoades scholar, Oxford grad, Vietnam Vet and US Army helicopter pilot with a Captain's rank. Actor, musician, songwriter and advocate for common sense...Jason Aldean didn't put in the reps to develop a mental rigour necessary to intelligently advocate for any substantive goals in any public sphere. Outlaw Country RIP
Kris is an exception not a rule. I respect the hell out of that man. I wish more country musicians would take him as a role model instead of David Allen Cole.
Kris Kross, American brother duo Mac Daddy / Daddy Mac Education: not really Accomplishments: wearing their clothes backwards, gold and platinum selling hip hop albums. That is all.
TRAITOR and draft dodger Trump is about as far from a patriot as Earth is from Pluto. A real patriot looks like Jack Smith, the late John McCain, and most definitely President Joe Biden. 💙💙💙
Johnny Cash grew up poor, saw much injustice, and was a man of the people. He never sold out, or compromised his integrity for money. I wish we had men like Johnny today. God knows we need them.
There are very few Country singers who started from less and/or unfortunate positions nowadays and that’s kinda sad. The two I can think of off the top of my head are Luke Combs and Jelly Roll.
@@montaredpanda8095- Good old Dolly Parton was one of those. Dirt poor when young, and is most assuredly NOT a far right Trump cultist. She's a sweet person, and dismayed by the rage and race hate from the R's.
It's a sad state of our union when this kind of talk is heartwarming. Seeing legends like this speak candidly makes some of us feel less alone , and less like we were out on the edge these last 2 decades (for myself at least.) Love and kindness have to win, but speaking truth to power is absolutely necessary, no matter the "collateral damage".
Country music doesn’t have heart anymore. It’s pop music that is terrible. They have lost their way. Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and others who fought for the correct things had heart.
When the confederate flag is part of Southern heritage not racism it's like comparing the Japanese rising flag with the confederate flag what progressive delusional lunatics y'all are.
@@KayDub-t6v so…you’re defending a flag that is the very epitome of hate? Will you defend it by saying “It’s our heritage!”? If so, are you really proud of a criminal heritage that enslaved and tortured people? Would love to hear you defend the indefensible
@@waltdavis29 I'm telling you you have no idea what you're saying. If you looked at the actual origins of the flag it had nothing to do with what you're claiming. Your ignorance is not my, nor anyone else's liability or burden. Educate yourself. Stop with the fake outrage, SJW bs. You're not morally superior to ANYONE. Sorry. The only thing criminal is your stupidity.
MY dad knew Johnny Cash, he intererviewd him in 1964, then again right when he was going to sing at Folsom. My dad asked him about the reaction the label had to this. And why said it might offend many of his Christian fans. Cash replied "Well then they really aren't Christians." He interviewed him again in 1967 and Cash was beginning to get more vocal with his feelings about the Vietnam War. My dad asked if that was risky for his career to criticize the war. He said, something like I don't care
Today's Democratic Party is pro-war, pro-establishment, and pro-genocide. He wasn't a Democrat because Cash was anti-government and Lynn endorsed Trump in 2016 oh no whatcha gonna do progressive lunatic make more shit up?
Cash wasn't wrong. Even back then there were lukewarm Christians. Americans haven't changed. Back then Vietnam was the enemy, now it is Russia. America loves war and hates God even though they claim to love him (but their God they love is mammon).
A Nixon memo said Johnny Cash should be "neutralized" and they called him to the White House to give him a chance to play ball and come over to his side. Cash sang those protest songs instead. Johnny Cash is about the first music I ever heard. I keep gaining more respect for him when I learn stuff like this. He could have stayed rich and famous without speaking up for poor people and prisoners in the way of real Christian.
I was shocked to learn that the country singer that does the commercials for the Wounded Warrior Project is a huge MAGA dude. As a Gulf War veteran, that makes me sick! I don't regard people who crap on our Constitution to be worthy of even being in any way, shape, or form associated with our veterans. He's doing it for the money and make no mistake.
Largely why I stopped listening to country music 25 years ago, though I didn't actually realize it until later. Country music use to say important things, then around the late nineties it became canned horseshit with endless trash songs about pickup trucks, tractors and mindless pandering to rural America.
I agree completely. I like old bluegrass, old country and blues but the modern stuff sounds like something that was made to be background music for a commercial..
Make no mistake. Johnny Cash is NOT country music. He was the first punk rocker. He was amazing. He would definitely be mortified at the MAGA movement in country music today.
@TheAutumnWind_RN4L nah I know ha ha. I should have worded it differently, but his lyrics are definitely punk ha ha. In my opinion. My girlfriend is in to country and I took her to a punk show. They had Cash shirts lol. I said "See?! I told you he is more punk than country." Lol
@Chucs_Padida yeah, I feel you. His mentality was definitely punk rock, and Live at Folsom qualifies as such. Though not exactly a punk rock song, his cover of Hurt certainly gave him appeal to a new audience.
Yeah. Remembering what happened to The Dixie Chicks. Might not have been a fan, but we were all asking the same damn question...WHY IRAQ?! The music group didn't deserve the hatred. About the same time I stopped watching FOX.
@@MrAvocado233 Thank you for being part of the problem. Saying "I don't vote," is, to me, as "Bwilliant" as saying, "I never read the fuqking directions."
Texas girl here. I grew up on plenty of country in the 80s and 90s along with the classic stuff. The genre had been creeping right for a long time, but what i saw was a HUGE shift post 9/11. It was gross then and it still is now. I mostly checked out of country from then on.
@@noadlorI fear if "we" don't help them now? We'll be fighting them after Russia annexes them. Im just a simple housewife but I can see that one coming. Watched a Chelsea Handler interview in Russia, even their own women don't much care for the vodka soaked men there. Ive lived with alcoholics before, they're no one I'd like to see running a whole country let alone the world. Don't know if I'm correct on that thinking but it's the only excuse I have for them.
There used to be two factions of country music back when I used to listen to it in the late 70s and early 80s. There were the “outlaws” Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson who you might call progressive these days, and then there were guys like Charley Daniels and Hank Williams Jr. who fell into the redneck category. I guess what I’m trying to say is the redneck faction took over but they were always there.
No one pushed to ban the Dixie Chicks. Yes, they spoke out against Bush and rightly so. As did Trump. George W. Bush was never a real conservative and never will be.
As a born-again Christian myself, all the Trump worship from professing Christians really embarrasses me. (I'm no fan of Harris, either. I don't think either side is trustworthy.) Anyway, have a great night and God bless. 😊
I am a liberal Tennessean and a native of Columbia, Maury (colloquially pronounced Murray) County, TN. It is my home...I grew up in the shadow of that courthouse, admiring its architecture from nearby Riverside as a boy. This city and county, like anywhere across the South, has had a great deal to atone for in its abysmal and shameful civil rights history, and yet, it has come a long way...nevermind the bigot and racist on every street corner elsewhere in America🙄. The rise of Trumpism, however, as a result of three decades of propaganda in a post-fairness doctrine media landscape from conspiracists, ideologues, tartuffes, blowhards, and hyperpartisan hacks in the wake of Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, Bundy Ranch, and now January 6 have brought out the very worst of my fellow Tennesseans and countrymen...this state, as a microcosm, now bans books and pride flags, makes local library directors out to be political effigies, and has emboldened Neo-Nazis, as a result, to march in my beloved and much gerrymandered liberal enclave that is Nashville, TN. The Maury County GOP in 2020, led by Andy Ogles, brought in New Zealand Conspiracist Trevor Loudon to disparage the American-led, postwar sociopolitical order of the past 78 years with an isolationist/xenophobic diatribe against the UN, NATO, and an abundance of 🦇💩 falsehoods. I have a front row seat to dystopian Trumpland...and was furious to see them use my home for their vapid, unnuanced bumpersticker politics, social wedge issues, and support for a wannabe strongman. However, we live our lives in the shadow of monuments, memorials, and epitaphs recounting the scars of civil strife such as that courthouse. It should remind us of the peril and tragedy that comes of vilifying our fellow countrymen as "the other", especially if it supports a patrician donor class and the special interests of today like that of the antebellum plantation aristocracy and patrician republic it failed to create for a state's right to deprive the liberty and humanity of another. Do NOT take the home of the 11th POTUS James K. Polk, Sam Watkins, and others or a place that once welcomed LBJ (an architect of civil rights legislation) to task for the sins of a bygone generation from a century ago while discounting the fact that many in this area, like my mother, are from Flint, Michigan and elsewhere around the country...and growing exponentially every day. I know not what it will take to convince them to abandon Trumpism...and fear the political violence to come from my misguided, misinformed, and ideologically commodified neighbors. I will say that it demands the Democratic Party, complicit in emulating GOP neoliberal union-busting, deregulatory, and special interest-peddling policies for the past half century, take a more assertive stance in courting the working class once again in this New Gilded Age...populism knows no party, but if the rhyme of history serves as precedent, it may beget a new iteration of progressivism lest its demagoguery succeed.
You might want to check ✅ out a rare prophetic 📺 🎥 that was made in 1964 & AIRED 📺 only ONCE ( 12 / 28 / 64 .) NOTE ; The emergence of a eerily Trump - like dictator/ demigod at around the 1 hour 1 or 2 min mark ‼️ Peter Sellers plays the Imperial ME ‼️ He literally came back from the dead to play the role , having suffered a near fatal massive heart attack in the same year.( This was the first role for him after returning to acting .) This 📽️ was technically not the Twilight Zone as the show had been cancelled in 1963 , but it was written by Rod Serling and many of the old crew were involved in it, many taking less $$ as they wanted to get it out there, esp. following the killing of JFK just 1 year earlier & the Cuban missile crisis a year before that. With the deposing of Nikita Khrushchev & murder of Malcolm X coming the next year & the MLK & RFK assassinations & reemergence of Nixon 3 yrs down the road. NOTE * ; Nixon used the hate & anger he & Roy Cohn** & others redirected from the George Wallace campaign of die hard white supremacists , getting southern Dixiecrats to cross the political isle & vote R , many for the 1st time in their lives ! The result ? Nixon won a close ( 3 % ) race.and a new GOP anger strategy was born.( There was an excellent BBC documentary that was put out in 2016 re this ,but unfortunately not enough people paid attention to it ) Nixon used his VP to be ( Spiro Agnew ) to attack the Dems , liberals , students , etc while he sabotaged the Paris peace talks , promoting the " Silent Majority" of decent Americans with family values and of course, GOD , personified by Billy Graham , to help sell us Tricky Dick ‼️ Rod Serlings noble effort ( Can we make it not in vsne ❓) The 🎥 was put on ice from 1965 - 2012 when it was slightly resurrected , but recently, in 2021 it has been seriously ( audio was an original sound track by Henry Mancini ! ) restored & is out there FREE for all to SEE , SO 👁️👁️ IT ! " Carol for another Christmas" .** Note , Roy Cohn was a shady lawyer who worked with Nixon &the anti commie ( House unamerican activities committee) Led by witch hunting Senator Joe McCarthy ( One of trump's favorite buzz words , where do you think he learned it ? He was a wee lad watching on 📺 at the time ! ) Trump was said to idolize Cohn ( Cohn to Con ? ) growing up , spending time with him.as a young man....the roots of propaganda go deep ! )
Both Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams were taught how to play Guitar by Black Bluesmen. A.P. Carter, patriarch of the Carter Family, travelled around with a Black friend hunting for songs to add to his repertiore. And, Founder of Bluegrass Bill Monroe was an ardent anti-segregationist who was taught by Kentucky Blues great Arnold Schultz.
What about the racism of the left? Remember when Donald Trump said he doesn't want schools to be desegregated and become a racial jungle? Or wait, no, that was Joe Biden.
THANK YOU for showing what Country and Western and Folk and Bluegrass and Rhythm&Blues used to be about! When it was twisted 100% into modern NeoNazi propanda some time in the 80s and 90s, it made me sick!
Are you kidding? Country music has ALWAYS been 'like this'. Why do you think Willie, Waylon and others fled to Austin in the 1970s. It was goodbye to conservative Nashville. Nothing has changed.
Jason Aldean isn’t he’s the coward Who ran off stage had the house lights turned on in Las Vegas ! Which gave the sniper a better view of the crowd which killed 65 people?
I don't know or care much about Alden, but I don't think criticizing someone for running off stage in the face of gunfire from an unknown location and unknown gunman. That seems fairly reasonable.
I don't know or care much about Alden, but I don't think criticizing someone for running off stage in the face of gunfire from an unknown location and unknown gunman. That seems fairly reasonable.
Kris Kristofferson is a Rhodes scholar so I can expect this from him. During the final years of his life, Johnny Cash kept the country music establishment at arm's length in favor of indie/alt rock.
The country music industry had discarded Johnny, telling him nobody wanted to listen to his music anymore. They forgot that men like Cash built Nashville. They forgot that music without humanity and truth is soulless and empty. Rick Rubin convinced Johnny to record and together 6 amazing albums introduced a whole new generation to great music. The CMAs didn’t even recognize Johnny but the VMAs gave him the recognition he deserved. I will always be thankful to Rick Rubin for producing those albums and giving us a suitable appreciation for Johnny Cash.
After Toby Keith died, I read of an interaction between Kris Kristofferson and Keith, and Keith got read the RIOT act by Kristofferson for being the cowardly cheerleader he basically was.
From Rolling Stone. Kristofferson is a Renaissance man. A Rhode scholar, helicopter pilot and Army Ranger. The guy passed up a teaching job at West point to become a singer.
@@docbradleydc and he got Johnny Cash to take notice in his songwriting by stealing a helicopter from his offshore oil rig support job and landing it in Cash's back yard to deliver some of his songs. BALLS.
Toby Keith was MAGA. 😂 Johnny Cash was a rebel and a outlaw. He would never been an progressive in 2024 if he was still living. Let me remind you progressive lunatics Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols is MAGA he was inspired by Johnny Cash and Johnny Cash was a hardcore Christian not a member of the woke methodist.
@docbradleydc I'll always remember a comment I read here on UA-cam describing Kristofersons song writing abilities months before he passed away . There are tens of thousands of words in the English language, But there is nobody who can put them together like Kris can .
There once was a kind of rebel or independent thinking tradition in country music, certainly Johnny Cash took some controversial stands as well as Kriss Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, from a down to earth and no nonsense point of view. Instead of just parroting back jingoistic shallow simplistic patriotic propaganda.
I fully agree, and I suppose with "simplistic patriotic propaganda" you are refering to government worship which should never be viewed as patriotic. Johnny Cash was more patriotic than a lot of presidents were
Don't forget Garth in 1992, with "We Shall Be Free." In 1992, lyrics such as "when we're free to love anyone we choose" were groundbreaking. That whole song is a testament to the ideals this country has long espoused, but seldom lived up to. And, Johnny is a legend. Best there ever was, best there ever will be. The GOAT.
Nashville turned their backs on Cash only to have his career revived by Grunge Rockers who talked him into doing albums any way he pleased on the American label where he put out 4 Grammy winning albums
@@robertmccarthy3731 you bootlickers can't even name a single musician I don't even listen to Kid Rock. Hahaha Johnny Cash was a hardcore Christian and Loretta Lynn endorsed Trump in 2016 and Naomi Judd was also MAGA same with Toby Keith I understand you can't comprehend with facts.
@@robertmccarthy3731 Still can't name a musician besides Kid Rock and Ted Nugent they're not even country. Charles Manson was a musician and a hippie and ACAB.
There is no question that Jonny Cash was a big-hearted warrior for the oppressed, and if you have not seen, his version of the Nine in Nails song "Hurt" is a fitting capstone for a great career. Another country singer with a big heart and a beautiful soul is Dolly Parton. She was running LGTBQ+ days at Dollyworld decades before it was a thing at Disney. All is not lost, Luke Combs played "Fast Car" with Tracy Chapman at the Grammy Awards and the performance already has more than 6 million huts after 2 weeks.
Great video and retrospective of country music. In the last couple decades I was asking myself what happened to the country music I knew in the 1960', 1970's through the 1990's. It has almost completely disappeared.
You should be honest- there is a HUGE swath of country music that is rock-solid progressive, pro-union (really just pro-common people, anti-corruption, anti-corporate crook, anti-oppression, and every other positive value. Mostly, it's not the popular stuff...
It's not just country music. It's the country itself. Widespread usage of propaganda, media, manipulation, and religious influence has caused toxic tribalization. Contrary to popular belief, this country was NOT founded on Christian values or power. As a matter of fact, the founding fathers were specifically adamant about the separation of church and state. Here we are in 2024, and you will almost certainly not get voted into office unless you make it public news that you're a Christian. Pretty sad that COUNTRY music legends from DECADES ago were more progressive and aware than modern conservatives.
Really? Is that how Joe Biden was elected? Modern conservatives don't want open borders and more inflation sending our tax dollars to fight wars we're not in while you morons sat back and said Trump would start WW3.
@@stephaniesanderson6190 The border is open. The numbers show it. That's because Joe Biden told them, if they came here, they wouldn't be sent back or separated from their family like every other criminal is.
@@shlepmessing8703cite ONE time Biden said anything like that. And when you can't find one, please consider the possibility that it's because he *never* did. Trump told Republicans not to do anything about the border until after the election and McConnell agreed not to. So I assume you're equally mad at them, right? They said these things into cameras. That's not hard to find. BOTH sides are to blame for not fixing this shit *decades* ago.
Funny how patriotic went from questioning the country’s stances to not allowing the questioning of anything the country does and calling yourself patriotic.
I remember. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings would have stood strong for democracy and speaking out. Not like Loretta Lynn supporting trump and Charlie Daniels.
Guess who also loves democracy? Palpatine. Cash never supported democracy. He supported a theocracy. As do I. Democracy is just a synonyme for fascism. Hitler was elected democratically.
They were real patriots, being a patriot is not about blind allegiance a real patriot is someone who loves the country and wants it to do better for everyone not just a few.
Country music used to be about propping up the little guy. Now, it's music to prop up blind allegiance to one individual (who was NEVER religious and put tons of workers out of business by refusing to pay his bills when building in casinos in Atlantic City).
This is why I really try to stop people from dismissing country music as a whole. There's an ocean of difference between Jason Aldean and Johnny Cash and there's a lot of fantastic country music, you just mostly heard the worst of it played on the radio. I get why it's maybe not everyones cup o tea or favorite genre but y'all should check out the good country before you completely write off the genre. I mostly listen to rock and metal but I'll never skip a Johnny Cash song if it comes on.
Pretty much EVERY genre of Western Music in the past century came from the minds of black people. Country, Rock, Jazz, Ragtime, Gospel, Blues, Funk, Disco, Soul, R&B, Hip Hop/Rap, House, Drum n Bass/Jungle, Reggae/Dancehall, Dub. Furthermore. People who think musicians shouldn't speak out about politics should know... Musicians/composers have been doing that, in, and outside of their music since the Medieval Era. Why should they stop now?
I like to think that, if young Johnny Cash time traveled to just outside Tootsie's and saw "Up Down" on a bar TV, he'd immediately seek out Morgan Wallen and beat him senseless from Broadway to Printer's Alley before tossing him in the Cumberland. Look...just look at Nashville...just look how they massacred my boy!
In discussing the influences that made up Country music with Flat and Scruggs, writer Nat Hentoff mentioned the Scottish and Irish, and maybe one or two others, to which one of them replied, "You left one out, Son. The Black. Always remember the Black, because it's the most important. Without that, it isn't Bluegrass or Country, or whatever you want to call it...and look, this banjo, here, that originated in Africa, you know."
I got introduced to country music in the 1970s, the height of the Willie Waylon Johnny Cash era! So obviously that's the kind of country music on the fan of, and those are my country heroes! The trash they call Country today is mass-produced, I hate it as much as Willie does!!
I know many conservatives who do. I make a difference between social conservativism and American "conservativism". I am pro-capitalism, but not pro-unlimited capitalism.
Got to see a couple of those country legends, Willie and Kris...back then, artists had a spine. They weren't beholden to metrics, gross recording sales, or influential people. They grew up in an era where your values weren't for sale. People in the current industry are either complete sellouts, or worse, actually have crappy values like Wallen, Aldean and others. That kind of "country" I'll never listen to...not even if you paid me with Musk money.
shut up. This entire video is full of out-of-context clips. Currently, Democrats are the party of warfare. Plus, since they're talking about the 1920's, years ago, people fought back when they were targeted. Nowadays, we don't . We get beaten on the subways, sucker punched. stabbed. but there's no retaliation.
@@nighthawk5295 Tf are you on? The GOP salivates at the thought of war, and are owned by military contractors, and they are openly stupid, undemocratic, and fascistic.
I think the shift came when the music industry became part of the corporate world. It used to be that music producers and record labels were small, independent companies that often struggled just as much as the musicians they promoted. Very few people in that industry became rich. Then corporations bought out the small companies, and those that weren't bought were buried. Now all music that gets airtime is produced by gigantic corporations that don't want to hear music that disparages entities like themselves, and instead use their power to mute voices of rebellion and protest.
Wait! It's still like that?!?! I had assumed with internet/youtube/streaming/etc that the big record companies had lost their grip on the process. Is that not the case?
@@Redbeardian It is very rare for someone to make a career out of UA-cam. Also, because of algorithms, people who self-promote on such platforms are throttled. Whereas, Sony, which has multiple cash piles to draw from, can take a nobody and make them a star as long as that person agrees to only do content that has Sony's approval.
@@holzmann- Someone sent me the new Harry Smith biography by 'Cosmic Scholar' by John Szwed, so I'm getting into Smith's 'Anthology of American Folk Music'.
It is literally like in the 90s when punk/grunge/alternative went mainstream. You've gotta hunt down the really good stuff, if that's what you're into. Usually, that is actually marketed as Americana music these days.
I started noticing the shift in the '80s, saw it accelerate in the '90s with rural folk listening to right-wing hate radio, and watching hit it's point of no return with 9/11 when it just went irreparably nuts.
I was Johnny's nurse many times in the hospital. He was a very nice man. Not pretentious or condescending. June was a character. Right before her heart surgery she had us cracking up.
Kris Kristofferson, a Rhoades scholar, Oxford grad, Vietnam Vet and US Army helicopter pilot with a Captain's rank. Actor, musician, songwriter and advocate for common sense...Jason Aldean didn't put in the reps to develop a mental rigour necessary to intelligently advocate for any substantive goals in any public sphere.
Outlaw Country RIP
Kris is an exception not a rule. I respect the hell out of that man. I wish more country musicians would take him as a role model instead of David Allen Cole.
@@lucyfuir6386 yep, 90% of these current country “stars” couldn’t hold Kris’ jock. Thank god for Beyoncé
That is so badass. Seriously.
Kris Kross, American brother duo Mac Daddy / Daddy Mac
Education: not really Accomplishments: wearing their clothes backwards, gold and platinum selling hip hop albums.
That is all.
Good reply I agree .Aldean supporting a insurrectionist and a draft dodger.
Johnny Cash knew that people of color were the originators of country music and honored them
Johnny was part First Nations.
These old country music legends were real patriots. Today's GOP...not so much.
Today's GOP is made up of brain-dead dolts. Even Ronald Reagan would avoid them and that's saying a lot
Don't call yourself a patriot when you've never served your followed man.
TRAITOR and draft dodger Trump is about as far from a patriot as Earth is from Pluto. A real patriot looks like Jack Smith, the late John McCain, and most definitely President Joe Biden. 💙💙💙
@@asaxblack your comment requires further explanation. Dare I ask?
He'll Bushes wife killed her ex-boyfriend driving drunk.
Johnny Cash grew up poor, saw much injustice, and was a man of the people. He never sold out, or compromised his integrity for money. I wish we had men like Johnny today. God knows we need them.
We do. You and many others just don't care to do any simple Google search.
@@JP-jd8wr Just give the names, Mr Google.
@@oursolidarity99 did you get the names yet?
There are very few Country singers who started from less and/or unfortunate positions nowadays and that’s kinda sad. The two I can think of off the top of my head are Luke Combs and Jelly Roll.
@@montaredpanda8095- Good old Dolly Parton was one of those. Dirt poor when young, and is most assuredly NOT a far right Trump cultist. She's a sweet person, and dismayed by the rage and race hate from the R's.
Fun fact, Kris Kristofferson was an Army officer, helicopter pilot, Ranger School graduate and holds an advanced degree from Oxford.
Kristofferson got edjumication?! That ain't country!!! No sir!!!
Yeah, I'm being sarcastic. But no doubt some people would think that.
So he'd been there done that and knew exactly what he was talking about about. Kris IS a National Hero.
A Rhodes Scholar.
Conservatives hate all of him. Good thing he wasn't a POW too!
Let's Go Vote!
@@kyleebrock Really? Conservatives don't like Kristofferson? I thought they just hated Willie Nelson. I shouldn't be surprised, I guess.
I love, just how great a man Johnny Cash really was and how much we really need the man in black now more than anything! May they all rest in peace!
At least once a day I play " What is truth " on my stereo loud enough for passersby can hear.
It's a sad state of our union when this kind of talk is heartwarming. Seeing legends like this speak candidly makes some of us feel less alone , and less like we were out on the edge these last 2 decades (for myself at least.) Love and kindness have to win, but speaking truth to power is absolutely necessary, no matter the "collateral damage".
Country music doesn’t have heart anymore. It’s pop music that is terrible. They have lost their way. Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and others who fought for the correct things had heart.
Country music claims to be patriotic while waving the Confederate flag. That tells you everything you need to know.
I’ve said this forever. Flying that flag the way they do shows what profound losers they are
When the confederate flag is part of Southern heritage not racism it's like comparing the Japanese rising flag with the confederate flag what progressive delusional lunatics y'all are.
You're clearly ignorant about the flag and just parroting.
@@KayDub-t6v so…you’re defending a flag that is the very epitome of hate? Will you defend it by saying “It’s our heritage!”? If so, are you really proud of a criminal heritage that enslaved and tortured people? Would love to hear you defend the indefensible
@@waltdavis29 I'm telling you you have no idea what you're saying. If you looked at the actual origins of the flag it had nothing to do with what you're claiming. Your ignorance is not my, nor anyone else's liability or burden. Educate yourself. Stop with the fake outrage, SJW bs. You're not morally superior to ANYONE. Sorry. The only thing criminal is your stupidity.
MY dad knew Johnny Cash, he intererviewd him in 1964, then again right when he was going to sing at Folsom. My dad asked him about the reaction the label had to this. And why said it might offend many of his Christian fans. Cash replied "Well then they really aren't Christians." He interviewed him again in 1967 and Cash was beginning to get more vocal with his feelings about the Vietnam War. My dad asked if that was risky for his career to criticize the war. He said, something like I don't care
Today's Democratic Party is pro-war, pro-establishment, and pro-genocide. He wasn't a Democrat because Cash was anti-government and Lynn endorsed Trump in 2016 oh no whatcha gonna do progressive lunatic make more shit up?
Cash wasn't wrong. Even back then there were lukewarm Christians. Americans haven't changed. Back then Vietnam was the enemy, now it is Russia. America loves war and hates God even though they claim to love him (but their God they love is mammon).
@@asaxblack They sadly have no real argument
@@jerlewis4291 That is so cool let's pray for one another 🙏🌈🪽🪽💛🤍🕊️👣💟💪
Kris and Johnny! They were right then, and are correct now.
People should listen to Cash. He knows of which he speaks
Country music use to be outlaws against the system, that’s why I loved Johnny Cash so much and Willie Nelson. I can’t stand it anymore.
A Nixon memo said Johnny Cash should be "neutralized" and they called him to the White House to give him a chance to play ball and come over to his side. Cash sang those protest songs instead. Johnny Cash is about the first music I ever heard. I keep gaining more respect for him when I learn stuff like this. He could have stayed rich and famous without speaking up for poor people and prisoners in the way of real Christian.
A-frikking-men.
He also sang "The Ballard Of Ira Hayes".
Fully agreed.
Cash was back then where Aldean is now.
Just ask yourselves what would Willie do? He’s voting for Kamala!
I was shocked to learn that the country singer that does the commercials for the Wounded Warrior Project is a huge MAGA dude. As a Gulf War veteran, that makes me sick! I don't regard people who crap on our Constitution to be worthy of even being in any way, shape, or form associated with our veterans. He's doing it for the money and make no mistake.
Look up reviews and comments about WWP. Can you say Hood will Industries?
Trace Adkins.
@@anthonycantu8879 l agree let's pray for one another 👌🌈🙏🪽🪽💛🤍🕊️👣💟💪
No wonder why I liked Johnny Cash?? Thank you for walking that line.. ❤🙏🏿 R.I.P King Cash..
Largely why I stopped listening to country music 25 years ago, though I didn't actually realize it until later. Country music use to say important things, then around the late nineties it became canned horseshit with endless trash songs about pickup trucks, tractors and mindless pandering to rural America.
So true!!!
I agree completely. I like old bluegrass, old country and blues but the modern stuff sounds like something that was made to be background music for a commercial..
Yep. Love old country music. Can't stand the stuff that came out from the early 00s on.
Rush Limbaughrisation of the countryside...
Capitalism does that to a lot of industries
Make no mistake. Johnny Cash is NOT country music. He was the first punk rocker. He was amazing. He would definitely be mortified at the MAGA movement in country music today.
Johnny Cash is definitely country music, but also gospel, folk, rock and roll, and blues.
@TheAutumnWind_RN4L nah I know ha ha. I should have worded it differently, but his lyrics are definitely punk ha ha. In my opinion. My girlfriend is in to country and I took her to a punk show. They had Cash shirts lol. I said "See?! I told you he is more punk than country." Lol
@Chucs_Padida yeah, I feel you. His mentality was definitely punk rock, and Live at Folsom qualifies as such. Though not exactly a punk rock song, his cover of Hurt certainly gave him appeal to a new audience.
Johnny Cash was a brilliant musician and song writer, he had heart. When put up next to Aldean, lol, no comparison, it's like not even the same genre.
Johnny Cash would kick Aldean’s ass right outta those skinny jeans just before Kristoferson rung his neck
I AGREE!!!
Waylon and Willie would weigh in and have a bit of outlaw fun as well.
June could kick his ass.
Oh, I agree. But that doesn't make my statement any less true...
Even more he'd kick Tyler Childers for his woke propaganda. Wokeism is anti-black.
Yeah. Remembering what happened to The Dixie Chicks. Might not have been a fan, but we were all asking the same damn question...WHY IRAQ?! The music group didn't deserve the hatred. About the same time I stopped watching FOX.
But also remember, country music didn’t use to suck.
Also Johnny Cash actually was a working class boy from a small town in Arkansas.
Jason Aldean is a rich city boy from Miami.
Country music went MAGA right after it decided it hadn't gone racist enough.
Conservatives are racist, Liberals like little kids. Pick a side
@@Brandon-sx5pg I choose none . I don’t vote
Waaah! That’s racist! Waaah that’s racist! 🙄🖕🖕🖕
@@MrAvocado233 Thank you for being part of the problem.
Saying "I don't vote," is, to me, as "Bwilliant" as saying, "I never read the fuqking directions."
@@boojeboy1Stick that right where you send your monthly admiration fees.
Texas girl here. I grew up on plenty of country in the 80s and 90s along with the classic stuff. The genre had been creeping right for a long time, but what i saw was a HUGE shift post 9/11. It was gross then and it still is now. I mostly checked out of country from then on.
Kris, Johnny, Willie. All were working class people. They spoke from their experience. Loved them all, so much.
I'm proud of Johnny Cash, Chris Christopherson and the Dixie Chicks. We need more musicians with back bones.
Notice how the same people being all gung ho about going to a fake war that Bush pushed are the same ones that refuse to help a country in need?
@@noadlorI fear if "we" don't help them now? We'll be fighting them after Russia annexes them.
Im just a simple housewife but I can see that one coming.
Watched a Chelsea Handler interview in Russia, even their own women don't much care for the vodka soaked men there. Ive lived with alcoholics before, they're no one I'd like to see running a whole country let alone the world. Don't know if I'm correct on that thinking but it's the only excuse I have for them.
Eric Clapton is one.
@@DarkwingDuckVSMegavolt I won't argue that if you mean racist. Whatever!
Another musical hero of mine who tried to make things right. God Bless THE MAN IN BLACK
There used to be two factions of country music back when I used to listen to it in the late 70s and early 80s. There were the “outlaws” Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson who you might call progressive these days, and then there were guys like Charley Daniels and Hank Williams Jr. who fell into the redneck category.
I guess what I’m trying to say is the redneck faction took over but they were always there.
I stopped listening to country after the Republicans pushed to ban the Dixie Chicks from the air waves.
Dixie Chicks who?
No one pushed to ban the Dixie Chicks. Yes, they spoke out against Bush and rightly so. As did Trump. George W. Bush was never a real conservative and never will be.
Too much money spent on military and not enough on education, cash was a wise man.
Dixie Chicks...canceled for being antiwar...After 911
They're in one boat with Trump.
Johnny would be *furious* about the whole "God made Trump" BS. Making a mockery of the religion he was so ddvoted to.
As a born-again Christian myself, all the Trump worship from professing Christians really embarrasses me. (I'm no fan of Harris, either. I don't think either side is trustworthy.) Anyway, have a great night and God bless. 😊
I am a liberal Tennessean and a native of Columbia, Maury (colloquially pronounced Murray) County, TN. It is my home...I grew up in the shadow of that courthouse, admiring its architecture from nearby Riverside as a boy. This city and county, like anywhere across the South, has had a great deal to atone for in its abysmal and shameful civil rights history, and yet, it has come a long way...nevermind the bigot and racist on every street corner elsewhere in America🙄. The rise of Trumpism, however, as a result of three decades of propaganda in a post-fairness doctrine media landscape from conspiracists, ideologues, tartuffes, blowhards, and hyperpartisan hacks in the wake of Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, Bundy Ranch, and now January 6 have brought out the very worst of my fellow Tennesseans and countrymen...this state, as a microcosm, now bans books and pride flags, makes local library directors out to be political effigies, and has emboldened Neo-Nazis, as a result, to march in my beloved and much gerrymandered liberal enclave that is Nashville, TN. The Maury County GOP in 2020, led by Andy Ogles, brought in New Zealand Conspiracist Trevor Loudon to disparage the American-led, postwar sociopolitical order of the past 78 years with an isolationist/xenophobic diatribe against the UN, NATO, and an abundance of 🦇💩 falsehoods. I have a front row seat to dystopian Trumpland...and was furious to see them use my home for their vapid, unnuanced bumpersticker politics, social wedge issues, and support for a wannabe strongman. However, we live our lives in the shadow of monuments, memorials, and epitaphs recounting the scars of civil strife such as that courthouse. It should remind us of the peril and tragedy that comes of vilifying our fellow countrymen as "the other", especially if it supports a patrician donor class and the special interests of today like that of the antebellum plantation aristocracy and patrician republic it failed to create for a state's right to deprive the liberty and humanity of another. Do NOT take the home of the 11th POTUS James K. Polk, Sam Watkins, and others or a place that once welcomed LBJ (an architect of civil rights legislation) to task for the sins of a bygone generation from a century ago while discounting the fact that many in this area, like my mother, are from Flint, Michigan and elsewhere around the country...and growing exponentially every day. I know not what it will take to convince them to abandon Trumpism...and fear the political violence to come from my misguided, misinformed, and ideologically commodified neighbors. I will say that it demands the Democratic Party, complicit in emulating GOP neoliberal union-busting, deregulatory, and special interest-peddling policies for the past half century, take a more assertive stance in courting the working class once again in this New Gilded Age...populism knows no party, but if the rhyme of history serves as precedent, it may beget a new iteration of progressivism lest its demagoguery succeed.
You might want to check ✅ out a rare prophetic 📺 🎥 that was made in 1964
& AIRED 📺 only ONCE ( 12 / 28 / 64 .)
NOTE ; The emergence of a eerily Trump - like dictator/ demigod at around the 1 hour 1 or 2 min mark ‼️
Peter Sellers plays the Imperial ME ‼️
He literally came back from the dead to play the role , having suffered a near fatal massive heart attack in the same year.( This was the first role for him after returning to acting .)
This 📽️ was technically not the Twilight Zone as the show had been cancelled in 1963 , but it was written by
Rod Serling and many of the old crew were involved in it, many taking less $$
as they wanted to get it out there, esp. following the killing of JFK just 1 year earlier & the Cuban missile crisis a year before that. With the deposing of Nikita Khrushchev & murder of Malcolm X coming the next year & the MLK & RFK assassinations & reemergence of Nixon 3 yrs down the road. NOTE * ; Nixon used the hate & anger he & Roy Cohn** & others redirected from the George Wallace campaign of die hard
white supremacists , getting southern Dixiecrats to cross the political isle & vote R , many for the 1st time in their lives ! The result ? Nixon won a close ( 3 % ) race.and a new GOP anger
strategy was born.( There was an excellent BBC documentary that was put out in 2016 re this ,but unfortunately not enough people paid attention to it )
Nixon used his VP to be ( Spiro Agnew )
to attack the Dems , liberals , students ,
etc while he sabotaged the Paris peace talks , promoting the " Silent Majority" of decent Americans with family values and of course, GOD , personified by Billy Graham , to help sell us Tricky Dick ‼️
Rod Serlings noble effort ( Can we make it not in vsne ❓) The 🎥 was put on ice from 1965 - 2012 when it was slightly resurrected , but recently, in 2021 it has been seriously ( audio was an original sound track by Henry Mancini ! ) restored & is out there FREE for all to SEE , SO 👁️👁️ IT !
" Carol for another Christmas"
.** Note , Roy Cohn was a shady lawyer who worked with Nixon &the anti commie ( House unamerican activities committee) Led by witch hunting Senator Joe McCarthy ( One of trump's favorite buzz words , where do you think he learned it ? He was a wee lad watching on 📺 at the time ! ) Trump was said to idolize Cohn ( Cohn to Con ? ) growing up , spending time with him.as a young man....the roots of propaganda go deep ! )
Praise Cash and Kristofferson.
Jason Aldean and his wife are so cruel, hateful and the worst stereotype of the south.
Both Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams were taught how to play Guitar by Black Bluesmen. A.P. Carter, patriarch of the Carter Family, travelled around with a Black friend hunting for songs to add to his repertiore. And, Founder of Bluegrass Bill Monroe was an ardent anti-segregationist who was taught by Kentucky Blues great Arnold Schultz.
Segregation IS a leftist policy. See BLM.
Aldean wasn't dog-whistling, he was blasting his racism through a megaphone!!
What about the racism of the left? Remember when Donald Trump said he doesn't want schools to be desegregated and become a racial jungle? Or wait, no, that was Joe Biden.
Aldean is still less racist than you.
Johnny Cash was absolutely wonderful. He lived a difficult life, but what a voice and message he left us with. Such a great man and musician.
THANK YOU for showing what Country and Western and Folk and Bluegrass and Rhythm&Blues used to be about!
When it was twisted 100% into modern NeoNazi propanda some time in the 80s and 90s, it made me sick!
Are you kidding? Country music has ALWAYS been 'like this'. Why do you think Willie, Waylon and others fled to Austin in the 1970s. It was goodbye to conservative Nashville. Nothing has changed.
Willie and Waylon are Texans. George Strait never left Texas really.
Jason Aldean isn’t he’s the coward Who ran off stage had the house lights turned on in Las Vegas ! Which gave the sniper a better view of the crowd which killed 65 people?
I don't know or care much about Alden, but I don't think criticizing someone for running off stage in the face of gunfire from an unknown location and unknown gunman. That seems fairly reasonable.
I don't know or care much about Alden, but I don't think criticizing someone for running off stage in the face of gunfire from an unknown location and unknown gunman. That seems fairly reasonable.
Is it possible that Johnny Cash was just not the norm?
I never thought he was the norm musically- turns out he was a super good human being as well…
He may have been from the Deep South, but Johnny Cash was in *no* way a redneck.
That was great! The public/fans don't often get the chance to see some of our heros on such a personal level and their values.
Nice to know. Cash is one of the few country music artists whose music I like. Thanks!
I'm still grateful for our black country artists.
Kris Kristofferson is a Rhodes scholar so I can expect this from him. During the final years of his life, Johnny Cash kept the country music establishment at arm's length in favor of indie/alt rock.
I always love listening to Johnny's work with Rick Rubin
The country music industry had discarded Johnny, telling him nobody wanted to listen to his music anymore. They forgot that men like Cash built Nashville. They forgot that music without humanity and truth is soulless and empty. Rick Rubin convinced Johnny to record and together 6 amazing albums introduced a whole new generation to great music. The CMAs didn’t even recognize Johnny but the VMAs gave him the recognition he deserved. I will always be thankful to Rick Rubin for producing those albums and giving us a suitable appreciation for Johnny Cash.
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God bless both Johnny Cash and the recently deceased Kris Kristofferson
After Toby Keith died, I read of an interaction between Kris Kristofferson and Keith, and Keith got read the RIOT act by Kristofferson for being the cowardly cheerleader he basically was.
From Rolling Stone. Kristofferson is a Renaissance man. A Rhode scholar, helicopter pilot and Army Ranger. The guy passed up a teaching job at West point to become a singer.
@@docbradleydc and he got Johnny Cash to take notice in his songwriting by stealing a helicopter from his offshore oil rig support job and landing it in Cash's back yard to deliver some of his songs. BALLS.
Toby Keith was MAGA. 😂 Johnny Cash was a rebel and a outlaw. He would never been an progressive in 2024 if he was still living. Let me remind you progressive lunatics Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols is MAGA he was inspired by Johnny Cash and Johnny Cash was a hardcore Christian not a member of the woke methodist.
@docbradleydc I'll always remember a comment I read here on UA-cam describing Kristofersons song writing abilities months before he passed away .
There are tens of thousands of words in the English language,
But there is nobody who can put them together like Kris can .
Always had great respect for " The man in black " Johnny Cash
There once was a kind of rebel or independent thinking tradition in country music, certainly Johnny Cash took some controversial stands as well as Kriss Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, from a down to earth and no nonsense point of view. Instead of just parroting back jingoistic shallow simplistic patriotic propaganda.
I fully agree, and I suppose with "simplistic patriotic propaganda" you are refering to government worship which should never be viewed as patriotic. Johnny Cash was more patriotic than a lot of presidents were
Don't forget Garth in 1992, with "We Shall Be Free." In 1992, lyrics such as "when we're free to love anyone we choose" were groundbreaking. That whole song is a testament to the ideals this country has long espoused, but seldom lived up to.
And, Johnny is a legend. Best there ever was, best there ever will be. The GOAT.
You forgot to add, Aldean's music sucks.
As does Tyler Childers.
I'm a Johnny Cash fan and always have been. Screw maga musicians.
Nashville turned their backs on Cash only to have his career revived by Grunge Rockers who talked him into doing albums any way he pleased on the American label where he put out 4 Grammy winning albums
@@longjohn526 Rick Ruebens knew what he had and probably had a good laugh at Nashville's fools and dunderheads for letting Johnny Cash go.
Long after jason aldean,kid rock, ted nugent and that ilk are long dead and music forgotten, Johnny Cash's music and legacy will live on.
@@robertmccarthy3731 you bootlickers can't even name a single musician I don't even listen to Kid Rock. Hahaha Johnny Cash was a hardcore Christian and Loretta Lynn endorsed Trump in 2016 and Naomi Judd was also MAGA same with Toby Keith I understand you can't comprehend with facts.
@@robertmccarthy3731 Still can't name a musician besides Kid Rock and Ted Nugent they're not even country. Charles Manson was a musician and a hippie and ACAB.
There is no question that Jonny Cash was a big-hearted warrior for the oppressed, and if you have not seen, his version of the Nine in Nails song "Hurt" is a fitting capstone for a great career. Another country singer with a big heart and a beautiful soul is Dolly Parton. She was running LGTBQ+ days at Dollyworld decades before it was a thing at Disney. All is not lost, Luke Combs played "Fast Car" with Tracy Chapman at the Grammy Awards and the performance already has more than 6 million huts after 2 weeks.
"The last refuge of the scoundrel is patriotism"
- Samuel Johnson- British Author 1709-1784
I love Johnny Cash, he was a good man.
This is the BEST analysis of how country music is so different now and does a great job of tying it all together. 👏👏👏
Now I realize why modern country music makes me sick to my stomach, while at the same time, why it is that I love the old stuff!
Great video and retrospective of country music. In the last couple decades I was asking myself what happened to the country music I knew in the 1960', 1970's through the 1990's. It has almost completely disappeared.
You should be honest- there is a HUGE swath of country music that is rock-solid progressive, pro-union (really just pro-common people, anti-corruption, anti-corporate crook, anti-oppression, and every other positive value. Mostly, it's not the popular stuff...
Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar. Brilliant man
Rhodes
Pedantic
@@barryculling7795 thank you
It's not just country music. It's the country itself. Widespread usage of propaganda, media, manipulation, and religious influence has caused toxic tribalization. Contrary to popular belief, this country was NOT founded on Christian values or power. As a matter of fact, the founding fathers were specifically adamant about the separation of church and state. Here we are in 2024, and you will almost certainly not get voted into office unless you make it public news that you're a Christian. Pretty sad that COUNTRY music legends from DECADES ago were more progressive and aware than modern conservatives.
Really? Is that how Joe Biden was elected? Modern conservatives don't want open borders and more inflation sending our tax dollars to fight wars we're not in while you morons sat back and said Trump would start WW3.
@shlepmessing8703 The border is not open! Try all the people who over stayed their Visas!
@@stephaniesanderson6190 The border is open. The numbers show it. That's because Joe Biden told them, if they came here, they wouldn't be sent back or separated from their family like every other criminal is.
@@shlepmessing8703cite ONE time Biden said anything like that.
And when you can't find one, please consider the possibility that it's because he *never* did.
Trump told Republicans not to do anything about the border until after the election and McConnell agreed not to. So I assume you're equally mad at them, right?
They said these things into cameras. That's not hard to find.
BOTH sides are to blame for not fixing this shit *decades* ago.
@@satan.is.my.copilot Really? ua-cam.com/video/rYwLYMPLYbo/v-deo.html
Funny how patriotic went from questioning the country’s stances to not allowing the questioning of anything the country does and calling yourself patriotic.
God bless Johnny Cash. A Man's Man in the New Age. RIP!
I remember. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings would have stood strong for democracy and speaking out. Not like Loretta Lynn supporting trump and Charlie Daniels.
Guess who also loves democracy? Palpatine.
Cash never supported democracy. He supported a theocracy. As do I.
Democracy is just a synonyme for fascism. Hitler was elected democratically.
They were real patriots, being a patriot is not about blind allegiance a real patriot is someone who loves the country and wants it to do better for everyone not just a few.
Agreed.
Cash was spot on.
Country music used to be about propping up the little guy. Now, it's music to prop up blind allegiance to one individual (who was NEVER religious and put tons of workers out of business by refusing to pay his bills when building in casinos in Atlantic City).
I thought I liked Johnny Cash but now I know I love him!! R.I.P Mr Cash
This is why I really try to stop people from dismissing country music as a whole. There's an ocean of difference between Jason Aldean and Johnny Cash and there's a lot of fantastic country music, you just mostly heard the worst of it played on the radio. I get why it's maybe not everyones cup o tea or favorite genre but y'all should check out the good country before you completely write off the genre. I mostly listen to rock and metal but I'll never skip a Johnny Cash song if it comes on.
Johnny Cash🖤…….Kris Kristofferson🖤⚡️✨💫
When the Dixie Chicks weren't Dixie enough was the turning point I remember
Cash , Kristofferson cool true tough guys not fake Kid Rock
Great video here Rick! Lots of education for us; thank you!
Pretty much EVERY genre of Western Music in the past century came from the minds of black people.
Country, Rock, Jazz, Ragtime, Gospel, Blues, Funk, Disco, Soul, R&B, Hip Hop/Rap, House, Drum n Bass/Jungle, Reggae/Dancehall, Dub.
Furthermore. People who think musicians shouldn't speak out about politics should know... Musicians/composers have been doing that, in, and outside of their music since the Medieval Era. Why should they stop now?
An excellent point.
I am heavily pro-black.
Johnny Cash got it. Few do. Johnny is one of the few real Christians. Rest in Peace, Johnny.
Another dope.
I like to think that, if young Johnny Cash time traveled to just outside Tootsie's and saw "Up Down" on a bar TV, he'd immediately seek out Morgan Wallen and beat him senseless from Broadway to Printer's Alley before tossing him in the Cumberland. Look...just look at Nashville...just look how they massacred my boy!
In discussing the influences that made up Country music with Flat and Scruggs, writer Nat Hentoff mentioned the Scottish and Irish, and maybe one or two others, to which one of them replied, "You left one out, Son. The Black. Always remember the Black, because it's the most important. Without that, it isn't Bluegrass or Country, or whatever you want to call it...and look, this banjo, here, that originated in Africa, you know."
Fully agred.
I got introduced to country music in the 1970s, the height of the Willie Waylon Johnny Cash era! So obviously that's the kind of country music on the fan of, and those are my country heroes! The trash they call Country today is mass-produced, I hate it as much as Willie does!!
What is happening to white Americans? Seriously. I don’t remember it being like this back in the 80’s and 90’s. And NOT to this extent.
the racists like trump used the Obama presidency as a call to arms and trump made it ok for them to crawl back out from under their rocks !
In about 2016, a snake slithered from hell and whispered in their ears.
Ive told conservative people for decades “at least have the politics of Johnny Cash” it has worked before it may still work
I know many conservatives who do. I make a difference between social conservativism and American "conservativism". I am pro-capitalism, but not pro-unlimited capitalism.
Its sad but we were smarter years ago
Got to see a couple of those country legends, Willie and Kris...back then, artists had a spine. They weren't beholden to metrics, gross recording sales, or influential people. They grew up in an era where your values weren't for sale.
People in the current industry are either complete sellouts, or worse, actually have crappy values like Wallen, Aldean and others. That kind of "country" I'll never listen to...not even if you paid me with Musk money.
And they could also actually SING unlike 99.99% of the CRAP that's out there today
Cash , Kristofferson ,Nelson and Dixie Chicks (now The Chicks) are the REAL ONES
Did The Chicks change their name because of the connotations?
@@LDrosophila Yep.
Johnny Cash was on point
This shows that the Republican Party always was an inch away from being fascist. Let's call it Fascist Lite.
well... not always.
@@idiotworkshop8633 Youre not wrong, but thats not really an important distinction in this context.
shut up. This entire video is full of out-of-context clips. Currently, Democrats are the party of warfare. Plus, since they're talking about the 1920's, years ago, people fought back when they were targeted. Nowadays, we don't . We get beaten on the subways, sucker punched. stabbed. but there's no retaliation.
@@nighthawk5295You have a literal softcore porn playlist. Leave.
@@nighthawk5295 Tf are you on? The GOP salivates at the thought of war, and are owned by military contractors, and they are openly stupid, undemocratic, and fascistic.
I think the shift came when the music industry became part of the corporate world. It used to be that music producers and record labels were small, independent companies that often struggled just as much as the musicians they promoted. Very few people in that industry became rich. Then corporations bought out the small companies, and those that weren't bought were buried. Now all music that gets airtime is produced by gigantic corporations that don't want to hear music that disparages entities like themselves, and instead use their power to mute voices of rebellion and protest.
Wait! It's still like that?!?! I had assumed with internet/youtube/streaming/etc that the big record companies had lost their grip on the process. Is that not the case?
@@Redbeardian It is very rare for someone to make a career out of UA-cam. Also, because of algorithms, people who self-promote on such platforms are throttled. Whereas, Sony, which has multiple cash piles to draw from, can take a nobody and make them a star as long as that person agrees to only do content that has Sony's approval.
Don't kid yourself.. Music labels always were a gold mine.
They need to listen to Woody Guthrie more.
And you need to listen to Marty Robbins
@@holzmann- Someone sent me the new Harry Smith biography by 'Cosmic Scholar' by John Szwed, so I'm getting into Smith's 'Anthology of American Folk Music'.
New country music sucks , it's garbage.
It is literally like in the 90s when punk/grunge/alternative went mainstream. You've gotta hunt down the really good stuff, if that's what you're into. Usually, that is actually marketed as Americana music these days.
Aldean is the Nickelback of Country.
I started noticing the shift in the '80s, saw it accelerate in the '90s with rural folk listening to right-wing hate radio, and watching hit it's point of no return with 9/11 when it just went irreparably nuts.
When Johnny Cash says you have a problem you might want to listen.
Love this! Everyone needs to send this video to their right wing uncle who’s stuck in the MAGA media bubble.
If you love your country you should criticize it
Johnny Cash was an honest man . He stood up for the underdog , that is the ignored , the deserved but unrewarded.
When he was drinking, using drugs or cheating on his women?
@brian44276 Johnny Cash was a drunk, a drug user, a cheater and violent. Stop acting like he was a saint.
@@shlepmessing8703 It happens when people rely on sinful man instead of God.
@@holzmann-Good point. May Jesus abundantly bless you and all who see this comment. #John10:10 😊
Country music died when Cash died.
Today’s CM is childish and simple so …..it kind of all makes sense