RE: Country music stands on the war (and radio)

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>]

Dan writes:
It's one thing to go to a Joan
> Baez concert
> and her political statements from the stage, but most people
> wouldn't expect
> it at a Dixie Chicks show.

That's the point, right there.  I can't put the right words here to
express how LITTLE I care what this band thinks about ANYTHING that is not
expressed through their (great) music.  Martin Sheen? Pull-eze.  The West
Wing became irrelevant long before Sheen's ego became a malignancy on his
career.  Hollywood/Nashville, etc., just do your jobs, punch out and go
the bleep home and hug your kids.  Shut ... UP.

Johnny Cash's Fulton Prison Blues was a clear product of his true life
experience, and it passed the time-test.  Now, if the Chix want to put out
about how to get boinked by Sony, if there's a beat and you can dance to
it....


Imus, one of the group's early supporters,
> was calling her
> a "fat toad" on his show this morning.  Considering the tone
> of her remarks,
> that seemed like an appropriate response.

Don Imus has recently re-warmed to that group.  He literally helped put
that group on the map and then was dealt an apparant snub.  It hurt, he
remembered and then it seemed he began to forget.  Then one of the singers
decided to step way beyond her payscale.  Funny, that money.

Bill O'Neill