A Shitty Situation in Country Music

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​I have to write about one of my loves and indeed one of my first loves in life: country music. While it gets pigeonholed into redneck music so much of it is really good. That being said NONE of the country music on the big radio stations in the last twenty or twenty-five years is really good. The last great decade was the 1990’s when the genre gave us Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Dwight Yoakam etc.

​The reason I’m bringing up this music is because one of its biggest current starsMorgan Wallen has been found out to be a huge racist bigot. Well fuck him as his music is shit and you are a shit person to be going around shouting racial slurs.

​Look, country music has a lot of shitty artists these days but this mulleted bastard deserved to be forgotten about it in a split second. The reality that his album still went to #1 after the fact shows you that we have a big problem on our hands in America.

​Oh, wait you knew that already?

​I know I know but we need some liberal rural bastards out here like me that blast Waylon Live (my desert island record), Gram Parsons, George Jones, Merle Fucking Haggard, Hank Sr., Charley Pride, Buck Owens, John Prine etc. etc. etc. in their Jeeps on a hot summer day with the tops off.

​We should also appreciate the good non-racist modern country music artists like Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Margo Price, and Tyler Childers among others.

​But it is tough as a country music aficionado. But I love it and I hope you give it a chance. From the early 20th century to a 100 hundred years later there are some good folk making good country music in the South and we should always strive to do better. We should always strive to really not be a Morgan Wallen but be a Dolly Parton.

​ALWAYS BE A DOLLY PARTON

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​2:26 am in the Ozarks

​Is the wormhole real?

​Blu-Rays die with Arnold standing up.

​No; it begins with Arnold standing up.

Here it is 2:27 am in the Ozarks and I’m watching U.S.A. Baseball vs. Japan Baseball in the Olympics. Is it Live? Is it taped? I really don’t know. The White Russians have started my morning.

​Who has their first drink at 12:04 am? Me apparently on this lovely night/morning after a long day of Saturday work. “You don’t wanna fuck with a cyborg man” Chad exclaims from the Discord. The Guilty Addictions Discord was lively tonight from what I gathered after I joined in a little too late. No dope to be found at the Treehouse;new jobs are to be had. Plenty by the Beach though.

​Anyways the coffee liquor in this White Russian has kept me up. What the fuck is Terry Bradshaw doing diving in this commercial? The Gold Medal is on the line. Eduardo Perez is calling a good game. 0-0 in the 3rd. Damnit Japan just nailed a deep homer to deep center for a 1-0 lead.

​Arkansas vodka, Mexican coffee liquor and gas station milk. Yes, I know I wanted better milk/cream, but all grocery stores are closed by 11 pm around here right now due to Covid-Delta and I don’t blame them.

​Japan is rallying again in the 4th as Suzuki hits a sharp grounder in between the 2nd baseman and shortstop.

​“What a shithead kid that Todd is” I hear Chad chime in. You really never know when a cyborg is going to break down your door.

​30 minutes later after a piss-off-the-deck break I’m laughing at the last sentence my lord “What a shithead kid that Todd is” still makes me roll with happiness. I’ve turned the soundbar onto a Phish show no offense to the previous spoken upon Eduardo Perez of course. My living room soundbar deserves some wild music at this hour of night. The dogs understand some of it but do not the rest as the 2nd sets of Phish shows can get quite outlandish.

​The USA baseball team needs a rally. I’m in a bad state as I have no idea the outcome of this game (which I’m quite okay with) but I understand it to be the Gold Medal game. It doesn’t say live in the top right corner of the tv screen, so I know the outcome has been had. I will not browse any sports site or social media in order to avoid ruining it. I really hate to waste this time if we can’t rally from a 1 run deficit, but Japan is really squeezing the plate and we can’t even get a runner on base.

​Who the hell is Jack Lopez? No disrespect to Jack hell he just got walked to get on base. I can’t Google these players as an immediate search would result in the outcome of this game and as the Olympics wind down, I can’t guarantee finding another sporting event that is of this impact at 3 am in the morning CST.

​I wouldn’t mind being frozen for a year or better yet on a lot of mind-bending drugs in the Montana wilderness for a year with plenty of fruits and vegetables in supply and no sports scores reported. In this scenario I would hire an assistant to create video channels after my year is up where I have no idea what game results take place, but I can finish an entire college football season within a few weeks.

​Groundout to the shortstop and our American rally is over.

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August 10th Update: USA baseball won Silver and I'm glad I didn't stay up any more too see the rest of that game.

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