Ol’ Bocephus Song
October 13, 2008
Okay, so yeah, I’m an urban elitist, but that means that I can love some country music. Typically, this general term (”country music”) would refer only to Ryan Adams, Rhett Miller and the so-called “alt-country movement” that took root about ten years ago and hasn’t changed much since, but still maintains a solid commitment to poetic lyrics, somewhat atonal singing and good use of the acoustic guitar, but for me, though, this includes some traditional country as well. I happen to enjoy, particularly, Hank Williams, Jr.’s ballad “Family Tradition.” I like it so much that I like to sing it at the top of my lungs with the car windows rolled up even though I do not, in fact, have a family tradition of getting drunk on whiskey and singing in dive bars.
Which is why, despite the fact that he’s dressed in clothing that not only incorporates the American flag but uses the actual flag as the main fabric design, and despite that he forgets halfway through which version of the song he’s actually singing and, had he not stopped himself, may have accused Sarah Palin of trying to kill him in 1973, I have to adore this new version that Hank’s pulled together:
As for the Jim Beam line that the Washington Post is up in arms about (because the Straw Conservative is a teetotaler, I guess), I have to say, I’m not much of a fan of Jim Beam. I’m not much of a fan of American-made whiskey. Irish whiskey — that stuff is okay. But Jim Beam…?
Maybe I’m just missing something.
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October 14th, 2008 at 4:54 am
yick…Jim Beam is too sweet. Woodford Reserve is the good stuff.
I can’t listen to any country produced after 1991…somewhere around that time, country music and soft rock bumped uglies in a prison shower in Nashville, giving us the crap we have today…
Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr….now there was some raging alcoholic inspired music…
October 14th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I cannot do Jim Beam….it might be the Irish half of me rebelling or something. Personally, I prefer Bushmills (the first licensed distillery in history: 1604) or a good aged Scotch.
And yes, I admit it, I’m an alcohol snob, but I have a heritage to live up to here =) Now if only we could get the Irish to send us better Guinness….