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| From | "Eytan Mirsky" <eytanmirsky@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Political music (article Gary Pig referenced) |
| Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:41:29 -0400 |
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That article Gary Pig Gold linked to was highly inaccurate. While I don't
like Worley's song, I saw him interviewed, and he said that he wrote it
after 9/11 in reference to the military action in Afghanistan; at the time
it wasn't meant to have anything to do with Iraq. (Granted, its popularity
now might confuse the issue.)
Somebody mentioned "Okie from Muskogee." There was a PBS show recently
celebrating freedom of speech that had a bunch of performers doing
controversial music. (These performers included Bill Lloyd and Rodney
Crowell.) While the gave the most earnest treatment to all kinds of
politically correct protest songs, they performed "Okie from Muskogee" as if
it were a joke. They didn't do Kinky Friedman's "Asshole from El Paso,"
though.
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