Comments on: Dixie Rock

By: Johnny R.

Johnny R. — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:22:54 +0000

After 1865, everyone south of Maryland was reduced to their least common denominator, black and white. War starts in 1861 and after seriously getting his ass kicked for two years lincoln in sheer desparation introduces the Emancipation Proclamation freeing only the slaves in the rebel states. General Grant kept his slaves. General Lee freed his before the new law. So, Lincoln, after getting 300,00 of his boys killed and having murdered almost the same amount of Southern boys defending their home is the great liberator. Ever wonder why it took 100 years for the US government to recognize black folks as people.That wasn’t a southern thing. We didn’t have the money, respect or clout to hold anyone down. After 1865 we were all the N-word.

By: Sam Hogue

Sam Hogue — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:22:41 +0000

One correction. I personally know Marshall Tucker. He now lives in Columbia, SC. He is blind, but not black.

By: Perplexio

Perplexio — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:44:38 +0000

Very few white southerners actually owned slaves. Slavery was a convention of the upper class of the south. Many soldiers on both the Union and Confederate side really didn’t think/care about the cause of slavery. For the “Billy Yanks” the war was about preservation of the Union, for the “Johnny Rebs” the Civil War was about defending their homeland from an unwanted Northern aggressor.

The Civil War was largely a rich man’s war and the issue of slavery, at that time, was largely an economic issue, not a Civil Rights issue.

Philosophically speaking, the Confederacy was right about States Rights… They were wrong about slavery, of course, and thus they tried to wrap the issue they were wrong about inside the issue they were right about to try to legitimize it.

By: Scraps

Scraps — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:12:39 +0000

I think it’s a stretch to call “Sweet Home Alabama” an expression of Confederate pride. Souther, of course, but I don’t see anything in the lyrics to link it to Confederate pride.

By: JP

JP — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:59:25 +0000

…or even better: why don’t these classic-rock stations play some of the self-contained funk bands that were CONTEMPORARIES of Skynyrd, the Allmans, etc.? People forget that progressive soul acts like War, Stevie Wonder, Rufus, Mandrill, Curtis Mayfield, Osibisa, Mother’s Finest, Earth Wind & Fire and even Funkadelic got played on FM rock stations back then. With good reason, since most artists like these had a definite rock influence. ESPECIALLY the Isley Brothers. You listen to tracks like “Live It Up” or “That Lady,” you’ll hear that guitarist Ernie Isley could shred just as well as Ronnie Montrose or Jimmy Page.