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[–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Chris Knight, Jason Isbell, Steve Earle, Turnpike Troubadours, Cody Jinks, Tyler Childers, Colter Wall, Lucero

All great Americana / Folk Rock / Outlaw artists who have meaningful music most would call country that has nothing to do with pavement princess trucks, shitty beer, racism, or military worship. Quite a few of these artists have songs with anti establishment themes or have made statements against conservativism at some point, as far as I am aware. Classic outlaw country is also full of artists who were hippie / fuck the state types before corporations co-opted the genre

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I thought Colter wall was an asshole, but I'm only basing that off the fact that he sang Dixieland as a preface to one of his songs. I just kinda assumed that he was a white supremacist and stopped listening to him after that.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I'm not claiming to be an expert on the personal affairs or beliefs of any of these artists and I've removed other artists I didn't mention from my library after learning some unsavory things. I do know Sleeping On The Blacktop, his most popular song, makes several literary juxtapositions about class and ideology in the south, one in particular about a rich white confederate type woman spitting on the working class people in a region of the appalachians that traditionally opposed the confederacy and slavery.

    Would be a very odd to also play songs supporting confederate ideals at the same time, but some people do some real mental gymnastics with their views

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