I recall reading about Mr Early’s “brave” rewrite at the time. As a fellow Alabamian, I took it as a direct affront. I had forgotten about it ‘til now. And now, I’m “affronted” all over again. Thanks.
Nota bene:
His Wikipedia - “James was born and raised in Troy, Alabama where he was raised by the women in his family.”
His tour page denotes few shows in the South (and many shows in Europe), but he will be in Charleston on July 20th. Perhaps a few hale and hardy Southrons should attend and give him a good ole Rebel Yell.
Here’s hoping the little bastard comes to Mississippi or Texas. And he can take that statue of Grant from the Vicksburg field when he leaves. We don’t need it any more.
Cuckntry music indeed. Virtue signaling vermin. The original is very moving, but it was the Winter of 64, though I understand artistic license and the need to rhyme. Thank you for this!
The lyric says ‘65, don’t it? my great great grandfather, who served in an Alabama regiment, died in January ‘65. He enlisted for the duration of the war in 1861. His younger brother lost a leg at Gettysburg. He himself died of TB. He had it when he joined. He was captured at Gettysburg, escaped and returned to the Army of Northern Virginia.
I wouldn’t piss on that piece of shit kid’s grave. but I’d like to be given the opportunity. I could work up a good spit.
Lifelong Yankee here who has seen the light. I have been on the wrong side of virtually all wars including the War of Northern Aggression, because I believed the marketing spin and the fake nationalism. Please rebel again to help bring Old Yankee down. We have no legitimacy.
Man, we think alike. I've removed myself from most of "pop" culture so I have to insert my standard "thank you for listening to this crap so I don't have to" line as response. Truth will out, just not on our accustomed timeline of now now now. Age has its benefits. Thank you!
I think the real ignorance he demonstrates is not grasping that a failure to understand your father is a something to mourn, a personal failing & social crackup.
Positively foul - leveraging the same shallow appeal to ethics and emotion that was leveraged to prosecute the war being sung about.
No humanity, no historical accuracy, just blatant urinating on graves. This disloyalty is as disheartening as the blinders laymen up here in the north put on to shield & justify themselves of warring with their own countrymen.
Early is pathetic. Watched (some) of his "rendition" until my ears hurt and gave it a "disliked" vote. That would be great if all the OGC voted it down.
Funnily enough when I got a notification for this the first thing I thought of was the Band's line. Thought it was just my musical mind connecting to the nearest song as it always does but then I saw the cover and it was actually precisely about that song.
"Good evening ladies and gentleman. My name is Early. Kind of Brooklyn hipster ironic right. After all, seein' as how I LARP as a Southerner and dress up like I am living in the 1950s. Ya'll might be wondrin, how I on the one hand long to invoke the past. Heck. Y'all could look at my image and assume I'ma dead and my heyday was 75 years ago. Well. That is what we call image. It is truth be told really a lack of imagination. But, it is kind of cool. You see I hate Southerners and I hate the South. Yet, I love it when me and muh band dress up like good old boys of Dixie.
Now, back ta my being called Early. Aint that a hoot. Kind of funny since I am so late to the Brooklyn retro thang and the hatred and condemnation of my ancestors, my people and my constant, shameless renunciations of all who came before me - by whose grace I even exist. I know it aint new no more. It been goin' on ferr a long time this rebellion schtick.
Fer those uh yuh out there who think I am a good old country boy, I apologize ferr makin' ya feel unsafe. I just want y'all ta know that I am just like you. You see. I feel unsafe too. In fact, ya'll don't know just how unsafe I feel. Ya see, I am a white boy born in the South. As such, I am at the bottom rung of ya'll Judeo-Puritans ever more anti-White racial caste system. I'm right and good scared ya see. I could speak out against it and truly rebel as a dissident. But that would mean that I wouldn't be able to sit up on this here stage and sing 80 year old derivative songs derived from derivatives of derivatives, and make a whole lot of them Yankee dollars I so much enjoy spending on leisure suits made in China and Vietnam.
No sir. So, even though my whiteness and my Southern heritage frightens the devil out of ya'll. I want you to know that I am more like you than you know. Let me assure you that being cancelled and banned and cut out of opportunities for status, wealth and fame by sticking up for my folk and myself is the most frightening thing and you too would be scared beyond belief. So, I came here tonight to sing you my latest concoction of self loathing banality. Heck. Let's all sing it together. Let's all show our solidarity as cowards so frightened of The Regime that there are no degrading and humiliating acts of fake rebellion we won't perform just to have a chance to get those material pats on the head.
Nappy heads.
Nose rings too.
We are the victims
Of you know who
When I look into the mirror
I see him
Staring back through his evil eyes so blue
What's a status hungry coward goin' to do?
I will scream at The Devil
As I sit upon his lap
Feel his icy cold fingernails
Running through my hair
I will scream at The Devil
So he pats me on the back
So let's all shake our fists and act like we are scared
As we peddle The Devil's wares
I'll get mine and you'll get yours
As we give The Devil his due.
"
I'll leave with a modified cover of a song that I think really fits Early who is so late to the self degredation party. It is a little diddy from the 90s.
"
Hooker With A Penis
I met a boy wearing jeans, cowboy boots
And a hip bolo tie, stetson hat, hair that's glued
That claimed that he was Dixie new
Back from 'Bama too, from the first note played
And in between sips of Jack
He told me that he thought we were evil now
Layin' down, suckin' up to the man
Well now, I've got some advice for you, little buddy
Before you point your finger, you should know that I'm the man
I'm the man and you're the man and he's the man as well
So you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass
All I know about you is what you've sold those dumb fucks
You sold out long before they'd ever even heard your name
You sold your soul to make a record, dipshit
And then you bought one
I've got some advice for you, little buddy
Before you point your finger, you should know that I'm the man
If I'm the fuckin' man, then you're the fuckin' man as well
So you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass
All they know about you is what you sold them, dumb fucks
You sold out long before I;d ever even heard your name
You sold your soul to make a record, dipshit
And then you bought one
All you read and wear or see and hear on TV
Is a product begging for your fat-ass, dirty dollar
Wow never heard of this. I love so much “alt” and “outlaw” country music as well as the folk music revival of the early 2000’s. And I must say, I was always surprised at the level of their shit-libbiness they could stoop to. Considering how great their music was and manh of their southern heritage, their terrible politics surprised me not necessarily by their orientation but more to the depths they would go. Bands like Drive-By Truckers and Jason Isbell come to mind (although I still love DBT). Although I had never heard of this basterdly performance of the Band. Wow. That douche needs to be publicly shamed.
"I hope we piss off the right people by changing the words"
These people are too shallow to even deserve our contempt.
I recall reading about Mr Early’s “brave” rewrite at the time. As a fellow Alabamian, I took it as a direct affront. I had forgotten about it ‘til now. And now, I’m “affronted” all over again. Thanks.
Nota bene:
His Wikipedia - “James was born and raised in Troy, Alabama where he was raised by the women in his family.”
His tour page denotes few shows in the South (and many shows in Europe), but he will be in Charleston on July 20th. Perhaps a few hale and hardy Southrons should attend and give him a good ole Rebel Yell.
he could use some wholesome heckling!
Imagine having a group big enough to sing the original lyrics over his rewrite? That would be great.
Here’s hoping the little bastard comes to Mississippi or Texas. And he can take that statue of Grant from the Vicksburg field when he leaves. We don’t need it any more.
Cuckntry music indeed. Virtue signaling vermin. The original is very moving, but it was the Winter of 64, though I understand artistic license and the need to rhyme. Thank you for this!
Thank you for reading!
The lyric says ‘65, don’t it? my great great grandfather, who served in an Alabama regiment, died in January ‘65. He enlisted for the duration of the war in 1861. His younger brother lost a leg at Gettysburg. He himself died of TB. He had it when he joined. He was captured at Gettysburg, escaped and returned to the Army of Northern Virginia.
I wouldn’t piss on that piece of shit kid’s grave. but I’d like to be given the opportunity. I could work up a good spit.
Yes it does but winter begins in December so the war was long over in December 1865. Very minor point.
Ah, okay. I figured Jan 65 would be the continuation but I see your point.
Lifelong Yankee here who has seen the light. I have been on the wrong side of virtually all wars including the War of Northern Aggression, because I believed the marketing spin and the fake nationalism. Please rebel again to help bring Old Yankee down. We have no legitimacy.
#notallyankees!!
Man, we think alike. I've removed myself from most of "pop" culture so I have to insert my standard "thank you for listening to this crap so I don't have to" line as response. Truth will out, just not on our accustomed timeline of now now now. Age has its benefits. Thank you!
just trying to do my part (suffer through the shitliberry so you don’t have to!)
You compare this guy to the Alabama Shakes but at least that chick can carry a tune. Good lord does this guy suck
on top of being a disingenuous queer, he doesn’t have a single listenable song!
Also this dude should be sodomized to death (LEGALLY) for this rewrite
atrocious song writing from Early. But telling: "Unlike my father before me,
Who I will never understand."
Can't imagine blasting my own ignorance quite so loudly.
I think the real ignorance he demonstrates is not grasping that a failure to understand your father is a something to mourn, a personal failing & social crackup.
well put!
☝️☝️☝️
Positively foul - leveraging the same shallow appeal to ethics and emotion that was leveraged to prosecute the war being sung about.
No humanity, no historical accuracy, just blatant urinating on graves. This disloyalty is as disheartening as the blinders laymen up here in the north put on to shield & justify themselves of warring with their own countrymen.
spot on!
This was really good Y! Thank you for taking a stand for the Yellowhammer State. Hick Libs are some of the worst.
Nothing to it, Otto!
Fucking scalawag.
Early is pathetic. Watched (some) of his "rendition" until my ears hurt and gave it a "disliked" vote. That would be great if all the OGC voted it down.
☝️☝️☝️
Funnily enough when I got a notification for this the first thing I thought of was the Band's line. Thought it was just my musical mind connecting to the nearest song as it always does but then I saw the cover and it was actually precisely about that song.
;)
"Good evening ladies and gentleman. My name is Early. Kind of Brooklyn hipster ironic right. After all, seein' as how I LARP as a Southerner and dress up like I am living in the 1950s. Ya'll might be wondrin, how I on the one hand long to invoke the past. Heck. Y'all could look at my image and assume I'ma dead and my heyday was 75 years ago. Well. That is what we call image. It is truth be told really a lack of imagination. But, it is kind of cool. You see I hate Southerners and I hate the South. Yet, I love it when me and muh band dress up like good old boys of Dixie.
Now, back ta my being called Early. Aint that a hoot. Kind of funny since I am so late to the Brooklyn retro thang and the hatred and condemnation of my ancestors, my people and my constant, shameless renunciations of all who came before me - by whose grace I even exist. I know it aint new no more. It been goin' on ferr a long time this rebellion schtick.
Fer those uh yuh out there who think I am a good old country boy, I apologize ferr makin' ya feel unsafe. I just want y'all ta know that I am just like you. You see. I feel unsafe too. In fact, ya'll don't know just how unsafe I feel. Ya see, I am a white boy born in the South. As such, I am at the bottom rung of ya'll Judeo-Puritans ever more anti-White racial caste system. I'm right and good scared ya see. I could speak out against it and truly rebel as a dissident. But that would mean that I wouldn't be able to sit up on this here stage and sing 80 year old derivative songs derived from derivatives of derivatives, and make a whole lot of them Yankee dollars I so much enjoy spending on leisure suits made in China and Vietnam.
No sir. So, even though my whiteness and my Southern heritage frightens the devil out of ya'll. I want you to know that I am more like you than you know. Let me assure you that being cancelled and banned and cut out of opportunities for status, wealth and fame by sticking up for my folk and myself is the most frightening thing and you too would be scared beyond belief. So, I came here tonight to sing you my latest concoction of self loathing banality. Heck. Let's all sing it together. Let's all show our solidarity as cowards so frightened of The Regime that there are no degrading and humiliating acts of fake rebellion we won't perform just to have a chance to get those material pats on the head.
Nappy heads.
Nose rings too.
We are the victims
Of you know who
When I look into the mirror
I see him
Staring back through his evil eyes so blue
What's a status hungry coward goin' to do?
I will scream at The Devil
As I sit upon his lap
Feel his icy cold fingernails
Running through my hair
I will scream at The Devil
So he pats me on the back
So let's all shake our fists and act like we are scared
As we peddle The Devil's wares
I'll get mine and you'll get yours
As we give The Devil his due.
"
I'll leave with a modified cover of a song that I think really fits Early who is so late to the self degredation party. It is a little diddy from the 90s.
"
Hooker With A Penis
I met a boy wearing jeans, cowboy boots
And a hip bolo tie, stetson hat, hair that's glued
That claimed that he was Dixie new
Back from 'Bama too, from the first note played
And in between sips of Jack
He told me that he thought we were evil now
Layin' down, suckin' up to the man
Well now, I've got some advice for you, little buddy
Before you point your finger, you should know that I'm the man
I'm the man and you're the man and he's the man as well
So you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass
All I know about you is what you've sold those dumb fucks
You sold out long before they'd ever even heard your name
You sold your soul to make a record, dipshit
And then you bought one
I've got some advice for you, little buddy
Before you point your finger, you should know that I'm the man
If I'm the fuckin' man, then you're the fuckin' man as well
So you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass
All they know about you is what you sold them, dumb fucks
You sold out long before I;d ever even heard your name
You sold your soul to make a record, dipshit
And then you bought one
All you read and wear or see and hear on TV
Is a product begging for your fat-ass, dirty dollar
Shut up and buy, buy, buy my new record
And buy, buy, buy, send more money
Fuck you, buddy
Fuck you, buddy
Fuck you, buddy
Fuck you, buddy
top comment award!!!
Wow never heard of this. I love so much “alt” and “outlaw” country music as well as the folk music revival of the early 2000’s. And I must say, I was always surprised at the level of their shit-libbiness they could stoop to. Considering how great their music was and manh of their southern heritage, their terrible politics surprised me not necessarily by their orientation but more to the depths they would go. Bands like Drive-By Truckers and Jason Isbell come to mind (although I still love DBT). Although I had never heard of this basterdly performance of the Band. Wow. That douche needs to be publicly shamed.
That was disgusting. I never knew that song existed before this article, kinda wished I continued on in blissful ignorance.
Not your fault though, fuck that Early James cunt, though.
Real!
Amen. Early can go live in Africa with his brothers.