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Perhaps it is simply yet another manifestation of one of those cruel ironies of our lost pomo times that it takes a music video from such a deeply conservative, sentimental genre as country rock to remind us that music is so-easily capable of being so much more than mere music, mere narcissistically indulgent insularity. Dubsteppers and hauntologists please take note.
Below, James Mcmurtry's "old fashioned" ("Will work for food. Will die for oil.") cynical music video (cue Kristopherson/Dylan) serves to re-displace that sad genre by re-assimilating contemporary issues of America's political and economic corporate control, the struggles of workers, the forgotten conditions of war veterans, the quagmire war in Iraq, and the prison industrial complex, among others.
Below, James Mcmurtry's "old fashioned" ("Will work for food. Will die for oil.") cynical music video (cue Kristopherson/Dylan) serves to re-displace that sad genre by re-assimilating contemporary issues of America's political and economic corporate control, the struggles of workers, the forgotten conditions of war veterans, the quagmire war in Iraq, and the prison industrial complex, among others.