They skipped the era of country music that was "I love my dog more than my wife, but don't ask me to choose between my dog and my truck"
I won't neuter my dog,
But my truck is now a man,
After putting truck nuts on my large Dodge Ram.
I ain't even going to lie. That was my jam in the 80s.
It's not just today, even his contemporaries kinda sucked and mostly didn't like him.
Yeah, just as an example -
Marty "Big Iron" Robbins released a song in 1966 called "Ain't I Right" that said people who came down to southern towns last summer to show people a new way of life were actually a bunch of secret Communists who didn't care about America and just wanted to sow discord.
Some context: in the summer of 1964, a bunch of civil rights activists went down to southern states to register people to vote for an event called "Freedom Summer," which led to them being harassed by local police and eventually at least 3 of them being murdered by the KKK. This was a huge headline dominating story that made the American mainstream actually start paying attention to the civil rights movement and start looking at how bad racism in the south had gotten, so Robbins was totally reacting to and trying to push against that change in popular opinion when he released that song.
Well, shit. That's going to put a little tarnish on my next FNV playthrough.
Don’t worry he’s not scoring royalties off your pip boy
Literal death of the author.
Well yeah, but I'll know.
He toured with Rockabilly artists more than other country singers.
He's the only person in both the Country and Rock & Roll Halls of Fame. He was a Rock musician, not just a country one.
I didn't know that! Awesome bit of trivia
And he shot a man in Reno
But why?!
Just to watch him die
What is a sundown town?
Oh, you poor soul.
Here's the wikipedia, if you wanna read.
And here's a video about the history of slavery and its after-effects that is kind of relevant.
The tl;dr is that there were laws, like vagrancy (i.e. not having a job), that were vague and applied to "everybody" but realistically only applied to black people through legal jiu jitsu and selective blindness on the part of police. Sundown towns are known as such for that behavior. They were (are) very unwelcoming if you're not white.
Oh wow, that's some nice and cozy sounding name for such an atrocity.
The name refers to "move on before sundown" - as in, if you're a minority and caught there after sundown, you'd be beaten or killed or both.
Black people who are passing through have to leave by sundown. There's still some small towns in the US with this expectation, although it's no longer written on signs.
A town in the USA that the excluded non-white people from the community...coming from signs that warned non-whites saying "don't let the sun set on you in whatever city".
Ah, I see he's heard of Dixon Dallas.
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