Blue-Collar Band Etx Pushes “Mad In America” Music Video About Plant Closings

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Blue-Collar Band Etx Pushes “Mad In America” Music Video About Plant Closings

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Blue-Collar Band Etx Pushes “Mad In America” Music Video About Plant Closings - 06/18/09

A couple of years ago the blue-collar band ETx wrote a song out of the frustration surrounding the off-shoring of jobs and closing of plants in the U.S. As Jesse Russell reports, the band is back with a new effort.

Now the band is back with a new push for their track “Mad in America.” The group has produced a video for the song and frontman Steve Duby explains why:

: "We wanted to paint a picture not only musically but we also wanted people to see the effects, to see what’s happened with all of these plant closings now that all of these jobs are going offshore and their not coming back here."

Duby has posted the video on YouTube where users can embed the video on their own websites and blogs. The band recorded a new version of the song for a new album they are putting out this year. Duby said even though the song was written during the Bush Administration the message hasn’t changed:

: "The trend certainly hasn’t stopped. We are still moving jobs off shore. We were told in the 70s and 80s that the United States was going to become a service economy and now they are moving the service jobs off shore…so what’s left?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwPAcDC2AMc

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