{"id":13743,"date":"2010-12-02T07:01:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T14:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13743"},"modified":"2020-08-21T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T19:01:18","slug":"unchained-melodies-an-ostensive-exposition-of-the-vital-importance-of-shit-kicker-music-to-the-maintenance-of-a-rebel-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13743\/unchained-melodies-an-ostensive-exposition-of-the-vital-importance-of-shit-kicker-music-to-the-maintenance-of-a-rebel-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained melodies: An ostensive exposition of the vital importance of shit-kicker music to the maintenance of a rebel attitude."},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been listening to Badlands Country<\/a>, a rockin’ kind of outlaw alt.country internet radio station. You can get it through the link above, but it should be available from just about any internet radio client. I found it first on iTunes, if that helps, and I listen to in on my iPhone by way of ooTunes<\/a>, which is totally worth having just by itself.<\/p>\n

Badlands has a pretty long playlist, most of it in-your-face rebel country — with zero Nashville pop pabulum.<\/p>\n

The station is epoch-eclectic, to say the least, but one of the things I like about it is that they play a lot of classic country, the stuff you will never<\/em> hear on broadcast stations.<\/p>\n

Like this: When Johnny Cash was most enthralled by the music of Bob Dylan, he wrote an homage to Don’t think twice, it’s alright<\/em> called Understand your man<\/em>. The debt to Dylan is more than obvious, but the Man in Black wrote a song that is darker, funnier and much more true to the reality of a broken marriage:<\/p>\n

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I love songwriters as much as I love their songs, and Lacy J. Dalton recorded the absolute best song about songwriting in Sixteenth Avenue:<\/em><\/p>\n