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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I Do Not Play for Oil Interests": Jackson Browne to His Biggest Fan, the Billionaire Behind #DAPL
http://m.democracynow.org/stories/16775When Kelcy Warren of Energy Transfer Partners is not building pipelines, he runs a small record label that puts out folk music. In December 2013, Warrens record label, Music Road Records, released the album "Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne." It was a passion project spearheaded by Warren himself, a longtime fan of Brownes. In a press release for the album, Warren is quoted as saying, "I dont know of anybody that admires Jackson more than me." Jackson Browne is now one of 13 artists who signed on to a letter to Warren vowing to no longer play in Warrens Cherokee Creek Music Festival or participate in Music Road Records recordings. In a statement released to Indian Country Today Media Network, Browne also pledged to donate the money hes received and will receive from the album to tribes opposing the pipeline. Browne writes: "I did not know anything about Kelcy Warrens other business as the production of this album went forward. Although as a music publisher there is no legal way to deny permission to a record company to cover a song that has been previously published, I could have dissuaded the artists from appearing on this record had I known." Browne goes on to say, "I do not play for oil interests. I do not play for companies who defile nature, or companies who attack demonstrators with trained attack dogs and pepper spray. I certainly would not have allowed my songs to be recorded by a record company whose owners other business does what Energy Transfer Partners is allegedly doingthreatening the water supply and the sacred sites of indigenous people."
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"I Do Not Play for Oil Interests": Jackson Browne to His Biggest Fan, the Billionaire Behind #DAPL (Original Post)
G_j
Nov 2016
OP
With all due respect, your lack of relevant knowledge regarding discrimination laws is epic.
LanternWaste
Nov 2016
#7
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)2. K n R for integrity and doing the right thing nm
K & R
bigtree
(85,996 posts)4. Jackson's been a force of nature since I was a teen
...k&r
mike_c
(36,281 posts)5. I do not bake wedding cakes for gay couples....
With all due respect, we can't have it both ways.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)6. they aren't the same thing
Not even close, really. The fact that a public accommodation can't discriminate based on race or sexuality doesn't mean that Jackson Browne has to play a concert for anyone who asks.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)7. With all due respect, your lack of relevant knowledge regarding discrimination laws is epic.
With the precise same amount of respect you allege, your lack of relevant knowledge regarding discrimination laws is epic.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)8. The Marshall McLuhan moment
"You know nothing of my work."
The guy is class.