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Overly Politically Correct Country Songs
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Birthing Person, My Partner is Mentally Ill - The Judds
Wichita Lineperson - Glen Campbell
C-O-N-S-C-I-O-U-S U-N-C-O-U-P-L-I-N-G - Tammy Wynette
Quing of the Road - Roger Miller
Good Hearted Adult - Waylon Jennings
Caucasian Tonkin’ - Hank Williams
Xe Stopped Loving Xir Today - George Jones
Seven Latinx Angels - Willie Nelson, Ray Charles
Parent Tried - Merle Haggard
Native American Person Impacted by the Justice System - Tim McGraw
If the Afterlife Isn’t a Lot Like the Southeastern United States - Hank Jr.
I Am a Person of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys
Folically Blessed Rural Resident - David Allan Coe
You Ain’t Womxn Enough - Loretta Lynn
Gestational Parents, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowpersons - Waylon & Willie
Feb 21, 2022
Monday Morning Memes: Hank Jr., Russell Dickerson, Roger Miller
May 13, 2021
Exclusive Song Premiere / Bill and the Belles / "The Corn Shuckin' Song"
Photo by Billie Wheeler |
Got a fun song premiere today from Bill and the Belles. It’s a plain goofy Roger Miller-esque double entendre of a song and I think you’ll get a kick out of it. It’s a welcome reprieve from the always raging storms of life. RIYL: Roger Miller, Pokey LaFarge, Carolina Chocolate Drops. More information about the band and their forthcoming album Happy Again (out May 21) below the song player.
QUOTE from Kris Truelsen about the song
"A lot of things can be shucked and this is a song about just that. It was written in about five minutes which is probably the most organic songwriting experience I’ve ever had. What came out is undeniably ridiculous and fun! And we all like fun. I tried to harness all my Roger Miller Chi for this one. This was initially written as a jingle to be performed on my show Farm and Fun Time following a story delivered by a local chef who talked about creamed corn and corn shucking parties. Sounds filthy."
PRE-ORDER HAPPY AGAIN
LINKS
https://www.facebook.com/BillandtheBelles
https://twitter.com/billandbelles?lang=en
https://www.instagram.com/billandthebelles/?hl=en
Happy Again isn’t exactly happy. But the delightfully deadpan new album from roots mainstays Bill and the Belles is full of life, humor, and tongue-in-cheek explorations of love and loss. Out May 21, 2021 on Ditty Boom Records (distribution and promotion by Free Dirt Service Co.), Happy Again marks a new chapter for the group by featuring eleven all-original songs penned by founding member Kris Truelsen. There’s no dancing around it: this album is about his divorce. But the group has a knack for saying sad things with a bit of an ironic smirk, pairing painful topics with a sense of release and relief. Anyone who’s been to one of their shows can attest that you leave feeling lighter and refreshed. The band often jokes that their setlists appear mournful and angry, but if you don’t listen to the words, you wouldn’t know it. “One of the darkest times of my life turned out to be one of the most creative,” says Truelsen. “I realized, ‘My life is chaos. I need to write about this shit.’” This personal loss turned out to be a creative boon for the band. Many of the songs were cranked out in just a few months, two were even written the night before they were recorded. This raw songcraft, along with the deft production touch of Teddy Thompson, son of Linda and Richard Thompson, who encouraged using only first or second takes, gives Happy Again an emotional punch that deepens with each listen.
The core of Happy Again is the foundational Bill and the Belles quartet sound featuring Truelsen on guitar, fiddler Kalia Yeagle, bassist Andrew Small, and banjo/banjo-uke player Helena Hunt, recently replaced by Aidan VanSuetendael. The album is also gently supported by Nick Falk on electric guitar and percussion and Don Eanes on piano and B3 Hammond. Early fans of the band were hooked by their singing, and Happy Again continues to deliver stellar vocal trio arrangements, honed by Yeagle, that nod toward groups like the Ronettes and The Shangri-Las. The band began as a project to explore the sounds between rural and urban music, between vaudeville and down home roots, but they’ve arrived somewhere wholly their own. They revel in the in-between: deeply engaged with the stringband tradition and eager to stretch those influences to contemporary settings. Happy Again is the latest chapter of that ongoing story: what happens when a stringband from East Tennessee lays down a session at Motown. It’s a welcome evolution that feels familiar and timeless.
With all their tongue-in-cheek quips, you’d think Bill and the Belles avoids the tough stuff, however, that’s far from the truth. “Never Be Happy Again” is a laundry list of existential woes, and “People Gonna Talk'' profiles some of the frustrations of small-town living. “Make It Look Easy” is both an anthem for apathy and a proper “fuck off” to those who’ve got something to say about your life choices. And of course there’s “Sobbin’ the Blues,” Truelsen’s homage to the ‘talking blues’ numbers of the past, neatly tied up with a moral-of-the-story twist. Tucked in amongst the grief and jubilation of Happy Again are some noteworthy oddballs, including two songs that began their lives as jingles on Farm and Fun Time (the band’s live variety radio show now syndicated on PBS, reaching over 20 million homes): “Bye Bye Bill” (a tale about a pale ale drinking whale) and the “The Corn Shuckin’ Song” (make of it what you will). The band presents these themes simply and playfully, inviting listeners to reframe their own burdens and look to the future. “This was one of the first times I felt like I was writing country songs like my heros that were actually from my own perspective,” says Truelsen. “I quickly realized it made sense for us to break the rules.” The group subverts expectations for a stringband, taking a page from some of the finest early country and rock songwriters that drifted happily between genres. Truelsen describes the band’s mission: “One of my ultimate goals is to write songs that are hard to classify in a certain time period. To transcend the now.”
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Country Fantasy Football Team Names 2016
Band of Broncos
Odell Where Art Thou
Gurley in a Country Song
Rollerskating Buffalo Herd
Gronk on a Plane
Real Men Love Jameis
Jordy On My Mind
Beatin' Philly and Kickin' Ass
Different for Cowboys
Manning Doesn't Play Anymore
Devonta Wanna Tonight
Dez He Love You
Me and Bobby Griffin III
A Good Year for DeAndre
Finally Sunday
Better as Amari
Quaker City Seahawks
Dak Where I Come From
Le'Veon on a Jet Plane
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If Dallas Davidson Had Written These Country Classics
And it's DJs, Chevys jacked, EDM music
Muddy, muddy fields that my tires roam
Yeah, my DJs, Chevys jacked, EDM music
And sexting hotties pictures of my dong

Old trucks drive you round the square even when you're drunk as hell
God bless little cutoffs them girls are shakin' so well
That's pretty much the deepest stuff that's ever on my mind
Yeah old trucks and cutoffs and Kroger cherry shine

Raptor with chromed out vents
Custom seat - leather bench
Bluetooth and intake kit
Brand new Powerplant winch
Yo, it's..four hundred horses strong
Drive your girl right out of her thong
I'm the man drivin' with a lean
King of the bros

If you wonder how long we'll be grindin'
Well, just crank up R Kelly's 12 Play
I'm gonna tap it for minutes, and minutes and minutes, lil bae

What's up baby
How you doin'?
Those jeans sure are tight
So shake that money
Like I love to see
Have a cold one
Are you horny
Like I am tonight
Drop the tailgate
And play some Aldean