Love that song, Hock. A lot of Southerners went north to work in the factories in the 50s and 60s. Picking cotton and cropping tobacco didn't pay much.Last night I went to sleep in America 3.0
Yes, RIP Dickie Betts. It sometimes is difficult to understand the leanings of "Southern Bands." The Allman Brothers had a black drummer in the band. Obviously controversial for those days and they supported fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter for President, but I think they were a part of the old "blue dog" democrats being mostly conservative, although Carter not near as left as current Democrats. I couldn't have supported Carter even if he was from NC if he was pro-abortion. I don't see how they could've either, but they did.RIP Dickey Betts. What a star-crossed band the Allman Brothers were, starting with Duane Allman's death in a motorcycle crash at the age of 24. Was listening briefly to the radio today and the host was wondering if the Allman Brothers were the best and most important American rock band ever. The only other one mentioned as competition was the Grateful Dead, which unlike the Allman Brothers was hippy/LSD oriented. The Allman Brothers had Southern roots, they never showed any open pro-White sympathy unless I'm wrong about that, unlike Lynyrd Skynyrd with their proud embrace of the Confederate flag, but they were never sellouts either.
It was posted on CF previously but is worth posting again because it's a postcard from a long gone America. Not just the huge Confederate flag in the background, but performing the song in a stadium filled with 50,000 young White people in Oakland, California. Simply unimaginable today and illustrates how breathtakingly fast the U.S. has changed demographically and ideologically.There's a famous video of LS in Oakland California with a huge Confederate Flag behind them on full display. I believe someone here posted it previously.
Different times indeed.
Good one! I was gonna post it in the Draft thread but this is a good place for it.Dedicated to the 2024 NFL draft.
I posted this years ago in this thread. As I recall the late Tom Iron liked it, and who wouldn't? Great song, great video.
I attended an air show at Nellis AFB in Vegas a decade or so ago and was duly impressed. At the end the pilots slowly paraded their planes to the crowd as their names were announced and they waved from their cockpits, and by an amazing coincidence all were evil White men, you know, the men that make the world work properly.
Yes, he had the unabashed White working man's perspective, always welcome but not often found on forums.Good video, always liked Van Halen - a good time party band. Sad to hear of Tom Iron's passing. He was one of my favorite members of the CF community.