Sod those who disparage Country and Western music. “Music for losers, by losers, about losers”, these tossers call it. They associate it with redneck hicks who get pissed on hooch, beat up their wives then fall into an abyss of maudlin self-pity. Of course all C&W fans are Trump supporters, racists, anti-gay, anti-women etc. according to these tone deaf fairies.
Bollocks to them. C&W is real music from the heart sung by real men – like Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Don Williams, Alan Jackson and Waylon Jennings – and real women – like Dolly Parton (and what a woman), Tammy Wynette, Linda Ronstadt, Emmy Lou Harris and Rita Coolidge. No gays or trannies in there, although Willie Nelson´s pigtails had me wondering for a bit.
Songs about real life too like: “Lucille” where the hard working husband is abandoned by his ungrateful wife; “Stand By Your Man” which every bride should be legally obliged to learn before being hitched; “Remember When”, a teary look back on life and raising a family; and “I Recall a Gypsy Woman” about an innocent 17-year-old being seduced by a dark-eyed older temptress with “Silver spangles in her eyes/Ivory skin against the moonlight/And the taste of life’s sweet wine”.
Who can beat that?
Nominated by Mr Polly



