So you may be wondering why I post so many live albums, well it's because I love live albums. I feel a live album is where the soul of the artist truly shines. I also believe a live album is a great way to get into a new artist.....as it is kind of like a greatest hits album....only better, cause it's live.
Now on to other business. It has recently come to my attention that this blog has been called out by name as being affiliated with the infamous blogger Hanszun on the "anti-hanszun" site. Now the reasoning behind this is because I was one of the few links he had on his country music blog (a great name for a blog), and that all those links were really Hanszun. Now the truth of the matter is when I started this blog I was very green, I had no idea what I was doing. I had seen this "great name for a blog" site and another called "Honky Tonk Prison" and thought...."Hey, I could do this....only with newer country....you know alt-country", so I left a comment on his site pointing him to this site which he linked to. Now I had no idea who Hanszun was and I still barely do and I still don't really care. But what happened is that I (and Honky Tonk Prison) became guilty by association when really we were just naive bloggers trying to get traffic to our own blogs....at least in my case, can't really speak for HTP.
Anyway, what I ask folks is to just look at the history of this site.....if you care....and it becomes pretty obvious that I am not affiliated with this Hanszun character and I am certainly not affiliated with these anti-hanzun-ites. To give you a metaphor, which I think is wholly appropriate: if Hanszun = Saddam Hussein, then these anti-hanszun people = George W. Bush and his war on terror. You decide who's worse......the so called "Blogfather" or the Machiavellian crusaders who have a vendetta against him. As for me, just leave me the fuck alone and I'll be happy.
Now back to the music.
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Here's another geopolitical metaphor for you. Stick with me, it's going to get messy:
ReplyDeleteHTP was good old middle America, just trying to live a normal life to the sounds of classic country music. Los Angeles was the Soviet Union, spreading soullessness and a complete lack of regard for history or values. Nashville was Iran, diametrically opposed to the Soviet Union by nature but gradually taking on the same oppressive, soulless character. Into this mess arrives Hanzun as Iraq, doing some things that are ethically questionable but more or less supporting America's interests against the menaces of communism and Islamic radicalism (i.e., bland pop and crossover country). Problem is, as soon as America forms a tentative alliance with Iraq, we find out that Saddam (our buddy Hanzsun) is just as bad as the enemies we had hoped he'd help us fight, and may even be bent on our destruction as well. But while we're trying to deal with this problem we're attacked by the anti-Hanzsun zealots, who in our little allegory will be played by al Qaida. See, the al Qaida folks think Hanzun/Saddam's Iraq isn't pro-industry/zealous enough and should be more supportive of Nashville execs/Islamist governments. And because they're zealots, their original enemy, secular Islam, becomes conflated with a broader, grotesquely demonized group, the Jews (music bloggers). Then, by extension, a country that is hospitable to Jews and has a shaky alliance with secular Islamic governments -- the American good guys over at Honky Tonk Prison -- becomes the true enemy, and even though middle America might in fact be able to find common ground with Islam in the notion that modernism has eroded healthy religious values, the fringe Islamist elements reject compromise and dedicate themselves to the complete destruction of all things (Country &) Western.
To sum up:
Hanzsun (Saddam): bad.
Anti-Hanzsun fanatics (al Qaida): worse
Country bloggers (America): just want to be left in peace
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ReplyDeletegood read, I like your style
Wow!
ReplyDeleteI had a little trouble following you in the middle there, but the sum-up says it all. I wonder where I fit in with all of this. I made a lot of mistakes in posting/blogging and now I'm taking the brunt of all this. I can't do a thing without giving al Qaida nore ammo against me. Had I known that there were people like this out there, I wouldn't have started blogging in the first place. Thanks!
As for me, just leave me the fuck alone and I'll be happy.
ReplyDeleteI think the artists would say the same thing.
You have NO business posting ANYTHING without their permission. That is disrespectful. NO rationalizing about that. You TAKE without ASKING and that is called STEALING. Got it?
That's why you could be arrested at any time, why your links can be removed at any time, why your blog could be removed at any time.
What YOU want to do and what is LEGAL are two very different things.
The above poster is a moron. Probably was in a very bad band that couldn't sell out an outhouse.
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