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Post by Bingo on Aug 8, 2008 7:44:02 GMT -8
I've been listening to Amy Ray's new album, "Didn't It Feel Kinder" - out this week. One point that may be of interest to Dixie Chick fans too is that she includes a whole song dedicated to a radio station that supported her, in Utah (which is sometimes thought of as the most Conservative state of all) The song is called "SLC Radio", and the station she refers to as "fighting the good fight for me" is KRCL-FM Although I haven't got all the lyrics yet - one aspect that I think is significant (and probably more fruitful) is that - while she does take issue with her Conservative critics - she doesn't make the song one-sided. "Keep the good things throw out the bad" she sings and in an interview with CNN, she said: "Respect flows both ways" I checked the station's playlists - and they do play the Chicks as well! (The first reference I found had them sandwiched between Steve Earle and Robert Earl Keen - so musical Liberals seem to do well, at least in that enclave of Salt Lake City!)
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Post by 1american on Aug 8, 2008 17:09:01 GMT -8
Utah may be the most 'conservative' state, but all the folks I know from its associated religion are among the nicest I know...
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Post by edinburgh1 on Aug 13, 2008 10:34:01 GMT -8
I work with a mormon from Utah and he is as liberal as they come. You can't always assume...
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Post by Bingo on Aug 13, 2008 15:47:53 GMT -8
No - she doesn't assume that (if you've seen any interviews with Amy Ray, she comes across as a generous and fair-minded person). As I said, the song is about a Liberal community (non-commercial) radio station in SLC
But there really doesn't seem a lot of doubt that the prevailing "Establishment" attitude in the State of Utah is strongly tilted to social and political Conservatism.
Amy, in fact, isn't attacking persons of any faith. She includes in the chorus the line "I'm sending out love to all the Mormons" But (as well as the line quoted in the first post, about keeping the good and throwing out the bad), she also says "You have to pull the reins on a lot of pain".
What I found especially interesting is her comment to the CNN interviewer "Respect flows both ways" My impression is that Amy would not claim any automatic "right" to be on the radio. She knows that her activism, from same-sex rights, to Native rights, to envirionmental issues, would make her a controversial figure for many mass market commercial stations. But she's arguing that it's a two-way street: artists who want respect from sections of the audience that may be opposed to some of her views may find it more fruitful to show understanding and respect for their views in turn.
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