Those damn Dixie Chicks!

They just made me cry, from their performance on GMA...and I have got laundry to do.

I didn't see anyone protesting their presence in the park. Nice!

This performance is getting me excited, though it's a 6 month wait! :)

someone will post a link to the performance soon. :-)

SINGING IS BELIEVING

Dixie Chicks break ranks with country conventions

"As an anti-war, pro-civil rights teen in the 1960s, my love for Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn meant that I had to put aside my own politics and swallow hard when I listened to their music. But I did, because these were amazing talents, whose music had an edge and a truth that cut through my own hypocrisies and the popular music of that time.

Later, in order to enjoy the Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker and Lynyrd Skynyrd, I had to ignore the rebel-flag-waving, cracker antics of their fans and occasionally cringe through a right-wing anthem, but I did and was better for it.

So I say suck it up to Dixie-Chicks-hating country fans. These are not your usual country stars (“Brooks and Dunn leave with 20th, 21st trophies / Host McEntire takes shot at Dixie Chicks,” The Gazette, May 24).

Like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Jerry Jeff Walker once were, these are Texas outlaws, except they are free of drugs and alcohol, have real families and even have babies between albums. But, like the country greats before them, they sing of the wide open spaces, the people and culture they love, and most importantly, they sing what they believe."

The Allman Brothers are no ReThugs. Toured and campaigned for President Carter in 76. He was essetially their opening act. Making campaign speeches prior to the concerts.

Ronnie Van Zant was no fan of Governor George Wallace (or Richard Nixon)

Although, with the exception of the Van Zant brothers and their own CD, the current LS band is a pathetic shadow of its former self.


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I agree whole okie heartily