KTEX Brownsville, Texas, PD Jo-Jo Cerda says, "I was hoping that sometime soon we would be able to put this Dixie Chicks thing behind us. Unfortunately, the can of worms has just been reopened. I know a lot of KTEX listeners were ready to move on, but now there has been a national display against one of the more popular performers in our format. Maines might as well have taken another jab at Bush."
....In his concerts, Keith has been showing on big screens behind the stage the doctored photo of Maines and Saddam Hussein that began circulating on the Internet a few months ago after Maines criticized Bush. [Billboard] Now Bush and Toby Keith are equivalent sacrosanct figures?? You radio paragons of virtue have the power to put it behind you - just put it behind you buttplug. If you are so enamored of rugged American individualism, then show the young woman some respect for standing up to the big Ford Truck shill - give her some respect for spunk, punk.
UPDATE
There's more - it's congenital or something:
- The Chicks had to cancel Sunday's (June 1) show in Cleveland due to lead singer Natalie Maines' sore throat, but she told the sold-out Palace audience [the next night], "I am so glad I got my voice back for tonight. I had absolutely no voice yesterday--and I swear you could hear clapping from the Oval Office." It was the only time during the evening when boos could be heard from the crowd.[Launch]
Article comments
1 - Nigel Richardson
Well put, Eric. If there's any musical genre screaming out for its own equivalent of a merciless, take-no-prisoners, punk rock revolution it's Country. (The first two Meat Puppets albums were two decades too soon, I guess.)
I mean, I don't want to get all Greil Marcus here, but wasn't country music once supposed to be some kind of outlaw music, the songs of hope and honest, heartfelt aspiration in the face of adversity rather than a soundtrack for selling trucks, lite beer and neatly trimmed facial hair? But seriously, is there any real country music left outside of mavericks like Gillian Welch these days?
It's no wonder Johnny Cash records Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode songs these days.
Oh, and it must really hurt to be dissed by a grown-up who goes under the name of "Cadillac Jack" and whose most lasting contributing to music to date was called SKATE WITH ELVIS.