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Ring of Honor [32958]
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Nice essay from Patterson Hood via Bitter Southerner.
Aug 21, 2013, 9:44 AM
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For those wondering, Hood is founder of the Driveby Truckers and son of Swampers bass man David Hood.
http://bittersoutherner.com/patterson-hood-the-newer-south
Kinda long, but interesting. Somewhat of an attempt to put the Southern Rock Opera into prose, but somewhat different.
Warning: There are a couple of political references that will likely ruin it for some of the truly ardent wing nuts here. But it's not about politics.
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Heisman Winner [105802]
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This pic is sweet
Aug 21, 2013, 9:49 AM
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All-In [33418]
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Was his political reference about women without whiskey?***
Aug 21, 2013, 9:55 AM
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Heisman Winner [135833]
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Thanks for sharing.
Aug 21, 2013, 9:59 AM
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An excellent read.
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Heisman Winner [105802]
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GREAT read!***
Aug 21, 2013, 10:01 AM
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All-TigerNet [13190]
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Southern Rock Opra is by far my favorite DBT album
Aug 21, 2013, 10:24 AM
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When I tell people I'm from South Carolina, they always expect some sort of caricature. I think the album covers that expectation fairly well. The South is a wholly unique place full of good and bad, but the good is always eclipsed by the the shouting from the bad.
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Agree 100%***
Aug 21, 2013, 10:32 AM
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Heisman Winner [105802]
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Whale, except SRO being the best DBT Album, that should be
Aug 21, 2013, 10:35 AM
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1a. Decoration Day 1b. The Dirty South 2. Southern Rock Opera 3. Brighter than Creation's Dark 4. Blessing and a Curse 5. Pizza Deliverance 6. Gangstabilly 7. Big To-Do 8. GoGo Boots
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All-TigerNet [13190]
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I would prolly put Dirty South and SRO as 1 and 1a
Aug 21, 2013, 10:40 AM
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I like the coherent narrative of SRO, but thats just the ghey English major in me flaring up.
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Alabama A$$ Whuppin' might be my favorite
Aug 21, 2013, 10:43 AM
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save The Avon Lady and Margo and Harold.
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All-In [28802]
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has something to do with who's doing the reporting
Aug 21, 2013, 12:46 PM
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and where all the national new outlets are. They don't really understand southern distinctiveness, so they look for weird little things to report on and ignore everything else.
I'm not really sure what the "bitterness" is that they're looking for over at bittersoutherner, but all three of the first three essays make me skeptical. Are they bitter because of outsiders' perception of "the duality of the southern thing," or are they bitter because of "the duality of the southern thing?" So much of what's new about the New South is unquestionably good, but your average southerner is much more likely to recognize than other Americans that newness for the sake of novelty is not a good thing.
The first essay from the editor and Patterson Hood's essay seem to suggest that everything traditional about the south, everything that makes the south different, ought to melt into the "new cultures" it comes in contact with. Their bitterness seems to be more about embarassment that the south isn't more like everywhere else, and that "those guys" make fun of us for it, than it is about telling the #### yankees they can go on back to Ohio or whatever crumbling bit of the rust belt they came from if they don't like it.
To be sure, we need as much self- criticism as we need defiance and rebellion, but I'm not sure that bitter southerners are much different than people like the writer of the second essay, who might want to enjoy southern culture but who also want to tell us how they do everything better where they came from (admittedly, the essay doesn't say anything like that, but after the first and third essay one wonders why they picked a transplant from Pennsylvania to write the second essay, and the first one on food and drink).
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All-TigerNet [13190]
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I think he doesn't think the people elected represent him
Aug 8, 2021, 1:59 PM
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and his vision of the south. He saw Alabama as Muscle Shoals, with all the black soul singers coming in a making awesome records, and people outside the south saw George Wallace frothing from the mouth. He sees Athens as a progressive southern town open to new ideas, but everyone sees the jackwagon that represents his district in congress as the representative of his area. People see "The South" as George Wallace and Strom Thurmond and whatever conservative ideologue is screaming and frothing and saying ignorant things to rile up the ignorant base. This is not his vision and experience nor my vision or experience in "the south". Granted, it is a part of "The South" but it doesn't tell the entire story.
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Oculus Spirit [83191]
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SRO has some great stuff but some is so bad, imo,
Aug 21, 2013, 4:00 PM
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I can't even listen to it. I think The Dirty South is by far the best, and Carl Perkins' Cadillac is my favorite song followed by The Sands of Iwo Jima.
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Danko/Manuel - RIP Isbell Era Truckers***
Aug 21, 2013, 4:08 PM
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Oculus Spirit [83191]
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That was third***
Aug 21, 2013, 4:16 PM
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All-In [28802]
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Read that, and enjoyed it
Aug 21, 2013, 12:30 PM
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While Hood's condescending political attitudes are annoying, I do enjoy his take on the south and southern culture. I hope they will pick a few guys with a little less antipathy towards "southern tradition" and the south's politics to write, but I'm not entirely optimistic given the slant of the editor's original essay.
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Heisman Winner [135833]
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They'll probably have ot next week.
Aug 21, 2013, 1:45 PM
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AND I WILL STILL READ IT.
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Orange Blooded [2394]
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Thanks for that, Snuffy. One of my favorite bands....didn't
Aug 21, 2013, 8:56 PM
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start seeing them live until not too long after Jason Isbell left. I have been waiting patiently for them at some point to bring back Greenville to Baton Rogue into the setlist. They play Shut Up and Get on The Plane and Angels and Fuselage all the time. I'm not sure why they never throw the link between those two songs in every once in awhile. Just a kick #### rockin' tune......and The Dirty South is a hard one to beat. Love the early albums, though......TOO MUCH SEX! TOO LITTLE JESUS!
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Re: Nice essay from Patterson Hood via Bitter Southerner.
Aug 21, 2013, 9:19 PM
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Wow- The piece started off great until he started wallowing in slamming the right and praising Obama and the left. I bet he is a true economic scholar....
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All-TigerNet [13190]
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Missed the slamming
Aug 21, 2013, 9:53 PM
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Other than the fact that he doesn't like the fact that redistricting guaranteed that Athens would have a conservative representative, and one that makes the news for saying stupid stuff (which is a fact). He never praises Obama, just said that he is happy that there were some Obama signs in the rural south. It was a total of 2 paragraphs, where he stated his political opinion, which appears to be different than yours, which in a way, proves his point, there are conservatives in the south, but there are also liberals. The south isn't the homogenous red state bible thumbing bastion it is portrayed to be.
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Re: Missed the slamming
Aug 21, 2013, 10:45 PM
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...nor is the north and the blue states what it and they are made out to be. Ct had slaves until 1835, for instance and it is very segregated.
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All-TigerNet [13190]
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Ok, so what
Aug 21, 2013, 10:51 PM
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Hood was talking about the south and how he feels it is misrepresented by people outside of the south.
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