• Tippy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’m not claiming to be an expert on the personal affairs or beliefs of any of these artists and I’ve removed other artists I didn’t mention from my library after learning some unsavory things. I do know Sleeping On The Blacktop, his most popular song, makes several literary juxtapositions about class and ideology in the south, one in particular about a rich white confederate type woman spitting on the working class people in a region of the appalachians that traditionally opposed the confederacy and slavery.

    Would be a very odd to also play songs supporting confederate ideals at the same time, but some people do some real mental gymnastics with their views