Goddamn right!
Didn't somebody compile a CD box set of the work of black country artists a few years back (or maybe the theme was black--but not necessarily country--artists doing country)?
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Didn't somebody compile a CD box set of the work of black country artists a few years back (or maybe the theme was black--but not necessarily country--artists doing country)?
Goddamn right!
Didn't somebody compile a CD box set of the work of black country artists a few years back (or maybe the theme was black--but not necessarily country--artists doing country)?
Right, right and right. One of the most essential CD box sets I own, From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music on Warner Brothers. One disc of prewar string bands, a second disc of R&B singers like Ray Charles and Esther Phillips doing soul-country thing, and a final disc of artists like Charley Pride, Stoney Edwards and O.B. McClinton who were straight-up C&W, no chaser. In all fairness, even though I dismissed Charley a few posts back, the four songs they used for this anthology are pretty good. Definitely from the Nashville assembly line, but still done really well.
Goddamn right!
Didn't somebody compile a CD box set of the work of black country artists a few years back (or maybe the theme was black--but not necessarily country--artists doing country)?
Right, right and right. One of the most essential CD box sets I own, From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music on Warner Brothers. One disc of prewar string bands, a second disc of R&B singers like Ray Charles and Esther Phillips doing soul-country thing, and a final disc of artists like Charley Pride, Stoney Edwards and O.B. McClinton who were straight-up C&W, no chaser. In all fairness, even though I dismissed Charley a few posts back, the four songs they used for this anthology are pretty good. Definitely from the Nashville assembly line, but still done really well.
See, this is why I was waiting for your reply here.
Thanks, pickwick33.
Just to be clear...........
Black cowboys were the real deal. After slavery lots of black men left the south and went west to become ranch hands etc. In fact blacks made up a good 80% of all cowboys. As you can imagine the white guys owned the ranch and the black guys did all the work. Black cowboys invented "country" music as they sat around the fire at night playing gutar and signing about the trail etc. In fact in the late 1800's - 1900 black white realations where way better than you would imagine. Several good books have been written on the subject. I used to see a guys in Kansas play.....Lemual Shepard. His whole gig was preserving original black cowboy songs and keeping the tradition alive. He was really great to see.
But all that doesn't mean that Cowboy Troy is good.
Black cowboys were the real deal. After slavery lots of black men left the south and went west to become ranch hands etc. In fact blacks made up a good 80% of all cowboys. As you can imagine the white guys owned the ranch and the black guys did all the work. Black cowboys invented "country" music as they sat around the fire at night playing gutar and signing about the trail etc. In fact in the late 1800's - 1900 black white realations where way better than you would imagine. Several good books have been written on the subject. I used to see a guys in Kansas play.....Lemual Shepard. His whole gig was preserving original black cowboy songs and keeping the tradition alive. He was really great to see.
But all that doesn't mean that Cowboy Troy is good.
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goldenblackcowboy
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blackcowboybradyjr69
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A quarter of cowboys were black,and if they returned to Earth and heard Fake Cowboy Troy's cruddy "hick-hop" and love of the REPIGLIKKKLAN Party,they'd kick his talentless butt en masse.
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Where are you,fake a** "Cowboy" Troy ? A handsome,70-year-old black Canadian cowboy wants to know !!!!!!!
it could be done... robo-kala. in actual fact it probably kinda has been done - SS has probably been scraped for LLM learning purposes.
regardless, cui bono? a bunch of one-line drive by snipes at cowboy troy in 2023?
regardless, cui bono? a bunch of one-line drive by snipes at cowboy troy in 2023?
