country music

Is This Country Song Racist? x country music

Is This Country Song Racist?

Will Truman March 20, 2023

A Key & Peele classic.

Saturday Spins: Cowboy Junkies The Trinity Session

Christopher Bradley January 16, 2021

What is unique about this album is that Cowboy Junkies played and sung around a single ambisonic...

Saturday Spins: Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. Dwight Yoakam's Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.

Saturday Spins: Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.

Christopher Bradley November 21, 2020

This was my Dwight Yoakam gateway drug...I like guitars, Cadillacs, and depending on what one considers “hillbilly...

Saturday Spins: Ryan Bingham

Christopher Bradley July 18, 2020

There are till people that listen to mainstream country music when Ryan Bingham exists, and that is...

One Year Later, Country Music Remembers Las Vegas Shooting

Andrew Donaldson October 2, 2018

Country music is somewhat stereotyped as being heavy on the heartbreak and hard times, but a year...

The Possum’s Friday Afternoon Jukebox IFRL-TLC-Religion-GAPD-tretyakov.saviour-made-without-hands-22

The Possum’s Friday Afternoon Jukebox

J.L. Wall April 26, 2013

George “No-Show” Jones, the Cadillac of country music, stopped loving her today. He was 81. Tonight I’m...

Retroactive Table of Contents: March 2 to March 9 IFRL-Plague-Microscope

Retroactive Table of Contents: March 2 to March 9

Rufus F. March 9, 2012

It was a somewhat tumultuous week here at the League of Ordinary Nerds. After this, let us...

Country Music and the Culture War IFRL-TLC-War-GAPD-tate.the-battle-of-camperdown-86

Country Music and the Culture War

Erik Kain March 7, 2012

This was brought up in an earlier thread, but Will Wilkinson’s post on country music is worth...

Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025The status quo is fine. Israel gets stronger, the Palestinians choose to not. If things really get o…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Palestinian terrorism causes poverty. Not on Israel, but on the Palestinians. Ditto these wars. They…
Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025It appears the courts won’t let Congress abdicate their responsibilities to check the executive afte…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025To be blunt about, the Anti-Israel people could argue that the Palestinians and their allies are goi…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025I'm generally inclined to agree with that but that leaves us with the problem without a solution pha…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025The Palestinians and their allies seem to think that a negotiated deal with Israel is too horrible t…
Dark Matter in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025You take a few hours off and take over the library. That doesn't have to affect your studies at all.…
LeeEsq in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025You are assuming a very generous ability to connect the dots. During 2024, the protestors at Columbi…
Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025I have more sympathy for the kids who aren't going to miss their finals but weren't allowed access t…
InMD in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Haven't they already conceded that though? Is the expectation that someone would bring their finals…