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In reply to the discussion: I'm sorry, but Merle Haggard was a right-wing reactionary unAmerican asshole [View all]djg21
(1,803 posts)195. Tom Waits is one of my heros.
Last edited Mon Apr 11, 2016, 08:42 PM - Edit history (1)
I like Bruce, but the only people who identify Jersey Girl with Bruce are the ones who are too young or too "mainstream" to know and/or appreciate Tom Waits. Closing Time, Blue Valentine, Heart of Saturday Night and Heartattack & Vine are classics even if you don't appreciate Wait's later avante garde material.
BTW, Bruce started writing Because the Night but never finished it and decided not to record it. He gave it to Patti Smith, who essentially re-wrote the lyrics keeping just the chorus. I last saw Bruce a few months ago on his River tour, and he played the song, told the brief story about writing it, and effusively praised and credited Patti Smith.
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I'm sorry, but Merle Haggard was a right-wing reactionary unAmerican asshole [View all]
jpak
Apr 2016
OP
Wrong. I used the song in a media education seminar to show how content could be...
Eleanors38
Apr 2016
#115
And Springsteen didn't write "Jersey Girl" (though he did write "Because the Night")
Recursion
Apr 2016
#47
before you continue, i suggest you at least look up the lyrics so you don't continue to post
islandmkl
Apr 2016
#172
I'm not a country music fan, but I understand its appeal. Fan loyalty is so important.
alfredo
Apr 2016
#177
At some point you will learn not to define your artistic tastes by what you hate.
Maedhros
Apr 2016
#132
Yeah that was the day the GD and BB renounced drugs, long hair, Roman Sandals, beads
jpak
Apr 2016
#60
99.9% of country singers, no matter how talented, are simply playing to their audience ...
LannyDeVaney
Apr 2016
#49
Thanks. Used to play that on the juke at the Horseshoe. Didn't get the flak
Eleanors38
Apr 2016
#116
I bet OP is an middle class urbanite who thinks all us rural people are "dumb hicks", too.
Odin2005
Apr 2016
#65
I bet you are wrong - and for the record I do not like the following country "artists"
jpak
Apr 2016
#100
It can be difficult for an irrational mind to separate the art from the artist.
LanternWaste
Apr 2016
#103
Not big a fan, saw him open for Bob Dylan once. But, never saw him with a confederate flag.
Hoyt
Apr 2016
#77
The fact that Merle and Willie were such good friends ought to tell anyone all they need to know.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#130
I worked on a couple of his shows waaaay back in the day. In all my years as a 'crew chick' he
underahedgerow
Apr 2016
#89
Ted "racist" Nugent's music is terrible. Not to mention the guy is a pos.
rockfordfile
Apr 2016
#175
"I was dumb as a rock when I wrote 'Okie From Muskogee,'" Mr. Haggard told the Americana
napkinz
Apr 2016
#114
So the Grateful Dead, Beach Boys, Phil Ochs, String Cheese Incident and The Melvins...
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#122
Like the right wing embraces 'Born in the USA' because they are idiots, not because the song sukcs.
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2016
#173
the only real question on this idiot post (I did not say idiot's) is trying to figure out...
islandmkl
Apr 2016
#171
you've seen them above...and i have no need to justify anything concerning another person's
islandmkl
Apr 2016
#185