A new playlist on Radio David Byrne. It's country again, from the 70s this time, and
there are hardly any songs from this bunch about standing by your man or simple lost love — the poetry of rock and the beats and the changes the country had been going through meant those innocent bygone days could be evoked in the music, but no longer in the words. These writers used this music as a way of reasserting a claim on music that they grew up with and now realized they loved. Music that was being dragged away from truth and real feelings by the Countrypolitain record men — or so it was felt. Kind of like the way Republicans have laid a claim recently on the flag and on Jesus, but in this case they didn’t get away with it, not completely. These younger (at the time) musicians took the music back.
The stream is also accessible through iTunes Radio in the "Eclectic" category.