Saturday, November 11, 2017

RACE, CLASS, REGION AND CULTURE IN AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC. Part 8: The 21st Century


PART EIGHT: THE 21ST CENTURY

Dirty South and Crunk: Southern Hip Hop
o   Ludacris, "Southern Hospitality" 2001 
o   Lil John & the East Side Boys, “Get Low”  2004  
o   Yung Joc, “It’s Goin’ Down”  2006  

Aging Outlaws
o   Johnny Cash, “Hurt” 2003  
o   Ray Wylie Hubbard
§  “Snake Farm” 2006  
o   Willie Nelson, Kris Kristoffersen, Jamey Johnson, and Snoop Dog, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” 2012  

Alt-country-rock
o   Ryan Adams
o   Lucero
o   The Eels
            §  "Railroad Man"  2005
o  Magnolia Electric Company
§  “Leave the City”  2005    
o   My Morning Jacket
§  “One Big Holiday”  2003 

Outlaw tradition
o   Hank Williams III      country & cowpunk
§  “Crazed Country Rebel”   2006   
§  “D. Ray White”  2006   [this video has footage of D. Ray and Jessco White performing]
o   Darell Scott
o   Chris Knight  
§  “Down the River”  2001   [an excellent example of country storytelling based on ballad forms]
§  “The Jealous Kind”   2003   
o   Ryan Bingham
§  “Hard Times”  2007    [“When I was young my daddy said “Son, Never be ashamed of where you’re from. Don’t be ashamed of your last name, and don’t go lookin’ for people to blame.”]
o   Tom Russell
Country/Southern Rock outside the box
o   Southern Culture on the Skids
§  “Banana Puddin’”  1997  
o   Drive-By Truckers
§  “Goddamn Lonely Love”    2004 
o   Steeldrivers [vocals: Chris Stapleton]
o   Sturgill Simpson
§  “The Promise”  2014 
o   Chris Stapleton
§  “Tennessee Whiskey” 2015 [with Justin Timberlake] 
o   Jason Isbell

              Protesting "New Country"
               ·         Alan Jackson and George Strait, “Murder on Music Row” 2000  
                    ·         Hank Williams III, “The Grand Ol’ Opry (Ain’t So Grand)”  2008  
                    ·         Shooter Jennings, “Outlaw You”  2011  
    o   Compare: Kris Kristoffersen, “If You Don’t Like Hank Williams”  1976       

       Race, Class, and Detroit

o   John Lee Hooker, "The Motor City Is Burning"   1967
o   MC5, “Kick Out the Jams”  1969      
o   Ted Nugent  “Stranglehold”  Live in Nashville, 2017 
o   Kid Rock “American Badass”  2001   
§  Promoting Trump: “Make America Badass Again”  on Fox News  
          o   Eminem, “Donald Trump Diss (The Storm)”   2017  

      Labor and Class in the 21st Century
o   Kenny Chesney and George Strait, “Shift Work”  2007 
o   Steep Canyon Rangers, “Call the Captain” 2007 
o   Alan Jackson, “Hard Hat and a Hammer”  2010  
o   Craig Campbell, “Family Man”  2010  
          o   Kacey Musgraves, “Blowin’Smoke”  2013   

     Black Country
                        o  Gangstagrass
§  “Justified”  2010   
o   Carolina Chocolate Drops
§  “Hit ‘Em Up Style” 2010  
o   Rhiannon Giddens
§  “Julie”  2015  
o   Darius Rucker 
            § “Wagon Wheel” [video featured Duck Dynasty cast] 2013  
o   Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks, “Daddy Lessons,” 2016 CMA Awards 

      And a huge misfire…
o   Brad Paisley & LL Cool J, “Accidental Racist”  2013   
                  

Country Rap
o   Big & Rich, with Cowboy Troy, “Rollin’”  2004  
o   Colt Ford, “Dirt Road Anthem”  2008  
o   The Lacs, “Kickin’ Up Mud”  2010   

o   Big Smo, “Redneck Rich”  2014  

“The Angry American”
o   Toby Keith, “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)”  2002 ["We'll put a boot up their ass, it's the American way"]  
o   Merle Haggard, “America First”  2005  ["Why don’t we liberate these United States? We’re the one who need it the most"]    Open criticism of Bush administration  

Formation
o   Beyonce, "Formation"  2016   
o  Beyonce at the 2016 Superbowl 
§  Reactions: The View 

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