Merle Haggard on CMT, "America First".

"Let's get out of Iraq..."

WOW! good song. :applause:

Y'all need to listen to country music more. ;)

Good night, everybody.

Seriously? Someone pinch me please!

Quite figuratively, of course. I think it was from a veteran's perspective. A lot of older folks in the video, and young ones, too.

:woohoo:

There was a sign at the end of the video "God Bless Johnny Cash".

Progressive American! As opposed to neanderthal, regressive, cult brainwashee.

Helluva movie, and going to see it could show the world, and country music that "outlaws" like Cash deserve our respect.
It could also show the country music establishment that there are many country music fans that are Democrats that find that giggling murderer in the White House utterly despicable.

gets on DVD..I'm really looking forward to it.

A lot of liberal country music folk, too.

I don't watch that channel, so I don't know. Inform me . . .

I miss the old Nashville Network that seemed to steer around being a corporate whore.

Wesley Clark.

It seems many of the older country stars are against this war. It's the new, pre-packaged yahoos who sold pro-war "Rah! Rah!" songs as part of their profiteering act.

Country Music has gone through a sad devolution.

He's whoring for SlaveMart, but he is against the war.

I didn't know that. :crazy: I do listen to country music but I don't listen to the radio anymore. They just play the same songs just in different roations. So I find it boring. I have cd's I put on my ipod and stuff.

way to go Merle

I always loved Merle, my family all listened to his music, sorta passed it on to us younger generations. I need to download that song.

i have a Christmas album of his that I enjoy this time of year.

is a favorite of mine.

--IMM

If we make it through December
Everything's gonna be all right I know
It's the coldest time of winter
And I shiver when I see the fallin snow

If we make it through December
I got plans of bein' in a warmer town come summer time
Maybe even California
If we make it through December we'll be fine

I got laid off down at the factory
And their timings not the greatest in the world
Heaven knows I been workin' hard
I wanted Christmas to be right for daddy's girl
Now I don't mean to hate December
It's meant to be the happy time of year
And why my little girl don't understand
Why daddy can't afford no Christmas here

If we make it through December
Everything's gonna be alright I know
It's the coldest time of winter
And I shiver when I see the fallin' snow

If we make it through December
I got plans of bein' in a warmer town come summer time
Maybe even California
If we make it through December we'll be fine

I remember hearing that song on christmas eve at my grandparents as a young child. Great song.

http://www.cmt.com/sitewide/apps/mediaplayer/index.jhtml?vid=68979&paid=505561&channelID=21&orgID=10&gateway=artists§ion_0=artists§ion_1=az§ion_2=haggard_merle§ion_3=artist.jhtml&refURL=/artists/az/haggard_merle/artist.jhtml&adPth=/sitewide/ads/adsetup/artists/&adPN=artist

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/haggard_merle/artist.jhtml#

"Freedom is stuck in reverse" what a great line and how true that seems now. And the Senate is barely holding the the most egregious parts of the Patriot Act at bay.

I guess he's seen this all before..

He used to joke about our being "Polish hillbillies", although mother would argue that contention.

We've all come a long way. Good sense is good sense.

We don't take our trips on Rit-a-lin ...

Yes, most of the programming consists of the latest Nashville Stars, along with stuff like "Dukes of Hazzard" reruns.

But they'll feature artists "too old" or "too different" for "commercial" airplay. And they'll slip in something like the wonderful Johnny Cash memorial at the Ryman, or Willie Nelson visiting President Carter in Plains, Georgia.

Chet Flippo writes for them; here's a recent piece on Merle Haggard:
www.cmt.com/news/articles/1511473/10132005/haggard_merle.jhtml

think of it as the corpwhorate establishment. These are the same people that have taken country away from it's roots and tried to turn it in to pop music.

The same thing to some degree has happened to the Tennessean Newspaper, they are Gannet owned and do not speak for the people of Tennessee anymore, just the corporations.

P.S. on edit Kicked and nominated.:kick:

I saw the special with Nelson and Carter and it was really well done. It was basically about growing up in small towns like they did and than Nelson played his music. My dad loves Willie and I was brought up on him, Alan Jackson, Allison Krauss, Randy Travis and Elvis Presley to name a few people. The first cd I ever bought was an Elvis "Greatest Hits" cd.

It'll get them the same results from their base - all-out mutiny.

If you don't like country music, at least hear HONKY TONK BA-DONK-A-DONK.

OMG, it's a wildfire spreading.

Guys, see the video, too.

I've always loved Merle Haggard - but I'd never have thought he would be against this pResident's Irag war agenda!! I don't listen to country music anymore - ever since Clear Channel and K100 in Toledo quit playing the Dixie Chicks. That was totally wrong!!

Charles Lindbergh used to subscribe to that label, but I guess the connotaion has changed some. Even so, there's stuff on that album I don't like. In the otherwise good song "Where's all the freedom?" he pines about how we "can't show the ten commandments anymore" and "are we really a nation under God anymore?". Even in America First there's god bless the army and god bless our liberty this and that... I'm just weary of those kind of expressions I guess. But it's still nice to hear a country song that says let's get out of Iraq!

Edit: I saw two things in the video that made me smile! A VETERANS FOR PEACE-sticker and GOD BLESS Johnny Cash sprayed on a wall at the end! :)

ALways fun to go on there and enrage the neo-cons. They are insanely republican. I especially enjoy visiting the Tobey Keith and Charlie Daniels boards. They are lunatics.

He's one of us even if he might not know it yet.

That song + two glasses of wine = me blubbering!

Lot's of great lines. I think it really tells the story of where many, many Americans are now.

"Yea, men in position but backing away
Freedom is stuck in reverse
Let's get out of Iraq and get back on the track
And let's rebuild America first."

Went out and got it yesterday. Very good. I'm grateful you brought it to my attention.

Also bought Fogerty's new greatest hits CD with his old songs. My christmas present to myself. :)

The ones that we need to get our message across to? Guess what? They idolize Merle Haggard. A true country voice like Merle's has a big impact on them. This is a very good thing!

I have noticed Merle's gradual change over the years. This man was practically an icon of the supposed 'Silent Majority' during the Nixon years. I think that my girl Iris Dement has had his ear the past several years.

Whatever the reason for Merle speaking out, it is just awesome because it means a lot of red staters will listen.