In light of the PBS documentary on the Tennessee River, the community of Muscle Shoals, Alabama on that river, the fusion of white and black Southern musical culture reflected in the two competing recording studios in that town, the outsized influence that these two recording studios have had on the pop music industry, and the “shout out” to Muscle Shoals and all it represents in “Sweet Home Alabama”, what is possibly offensive about that song?
Yeah, yeah, Neil Young’s “Southern Man” and “Alabama” as the response. But if “Sweet Home Alabama” was good enough for PBS (PBS? Do they object to PBS in Brookln?) to exemplify diversity and racial harmony in the New South, what is their problem in Brooklyn?
what is their problem in Brooklyn?
Apparently they are so bigoted that all things from the South must be destroyed.
If a song that mentions a geographic region is so “triggering” to these people, they should check in to the nearest insane asylum.
That ain’t the Brooklyn of my yout’. (Giuliani’s, either.) Back then the only protest would have been “Who the hell put on that hillbilly music?”
And the discoverer of Lynyrd Skynyrd and producer of their first three albums was famed New York rock and blues musician Al Kooper, who was born in Brooklyn and, among other major rock music moments, played the signature organ riff on Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.” Oh the irony!
And these are the people that constantly lecture the rest of us for equality and diversity. All the while, in their back of there heads they are the one’s constantly fighting off the demons of bigotry and divisiveness. Goes to show you that the ones that are constantly proselytizing to others to behave a certain way are actually doing it for their own benefit lest their personal sins come to bare.
In light of the PBS documentary on the Tennessee River, the community of Muscle Shoals, Alabama on that river, the fusion of white and black Southern musical culture reflected in the two competing recording studios in that town, the outsized influence that these two recording studios have had on the pop music industry, and the “shout out” to Muscle Shoals and all it represents in “Sweet Home Alabama”, what is possibly offensive about that song?
Yeah, yeah, Neil Young’s “Southern Man” and “Alabama” as the response. But if “Sweet Home Alabama” was good enough for PBS (PBS? Do they object to PBS in Brookln?) to exemplify diversity and racial harmony in the New South, what is their problem in Brooklyn?
what is their problem in Brooklyn?
Apparently they are so bigoted that all things from the South must be destroyed.
If a song that mentions a geographic region is so “triggering” to these people, they should check in to the nearest insane asylum.
See http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/musical-journey-muscle-shoals/
That ain’t the Brooklyn of my yout’. (Giuliani’s, either.) Back then the only protest would have been “Who the hell put on that hillbilly music?”
And the discoverer of Lynyrd Skynyrd and producer of their first three albums was famed New York rock and blues musician Al Kooper, who was born in Brooklyn and, among other major rock music moments, played the signature organ riff on Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.” Oh the irony!
And these are the people that constantly lecture the rest of us for equality and diversity. All the while, in their back of there heads they are the one’s constantly fighting off the demons of bigotry and divisiveness. Goes to show you that the ones that are constantly proselytizing to others to behave a certain way are actually doing it for their own benefit lest their personal sins come to bare.