Nashville Dems: " A helping, heating, hating side of stinkin' W cheese"

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NYT: Trying to Blend Political Sound for Country and Western
By THEO EMERY
Published: August 19, 2006


(Christopher Berkey for The New York Times)
Darrell Scott, a songwriter in Music Row Democrats, at a recording session this month in Nashville.

....Country music, the genre of lonely hearts and highways, lost jobs and blue-collar woes, has become a cultural battleground. Conservatism is widely seen as having the upper hand, a red-state answer to left-leaning Hollywood.

Democrats on Music Row, the country music capital here, have grown frustrated with that reputation. A group of record-company executives, talent managers and artists has released an online compilation of 20 songs, several directly critical of Mr. Bush and the Iraq war.

The price for the set is $20, with most of the proceeds going to the group, which calls itself Music Row Democrats and is using the money to support local and national candidates who share its values....

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The songs include (Bobby) Braddock’s “Thou Shalt Not Kill” and “Big Blue Ball of War” by Nanci Griffith. Another longtime songwriter, John Scott Sherrill, contributed “You Let the Fox Run the Henhouse,” and former Vice President Al Gore speaks a few words at the end of “Al Gore,” which was written by Robert Ellis Orrall and includes the line, “President Gore lives on my street.”...

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(Darrell) Scott recently recorded a new song, “W Cheese,” in a basement studio at Famous Music on Music Row. One verse ends, “They filled our plate with freedom fries, red, black and blue, white lies/And a helping, heaping, hating size of stinkin’ W cheese.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/washington/19nashville.html

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1. a.m. kick for these musicians