Comments on: Top Twelve Songs about America http://www.countryuniverse.net/2005/07/04/top-twelve-songs-about-america/ Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Michael http://www.countryuniverse.net/2005/07/04/top-twelve-songs-about-america/#comment-50474 Michael Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:38:22 +0000 https://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2005/07/04/top-twelve-songs-about-america/#comment-50474 Unfortunately, I think some radio programmers and listeners would STILL (in 2009!!!) have objections to that line from “We Shall Be Free.” Thoughts on this 15+ year old song, 3 and a half years after originally writing this blog?

]]> By: Paul W Dennis http://www.countryuniverse.net/2005/07/04/top-twelve-songs-about-america/#comment-2920 Paul W Dennis Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:07:55 +0000 https://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/2005/07/04/top-twelve-songs-about-america/#comment-2920 I would have Haggard’s “They’re Tearing The Labor Camps Down” and Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land (This Land is My Land” at the top of any list of songs about the USA.

“Song of The South” was a cover for Alabama – the original version was by Earl Scruggs and Tom T. Hall on the album STORYTELLER AND THE BANJO MAN. I like Randy Owens as a vocalist (he’s the only reason to bother listening to Alabama)but Tom T. Hall imparted a different shading to the song

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