In the 1970s, we not only had a thriving subgenre in country music that was all about how working people get screwed over by people in power, but they turned some of the songs into movies.
You remember CONVOY. But I saw this in a theater:
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But did this anti-establishment pav the way for Reagan to come along and convert all these folks to Rs with his anti-government rhetoric?
I love how in Convoy, in the end, all the independent truckers basically formed a union.
I do remember. And the celebration of working people was, in my view, cynical and short lived. I also remember all of the anti-union “right to work” laws that were adopted across the country in the 80’s and 90’s.
deregulatory country is very Lee Greenwood
Not 70s, but . . .
Both songs I could sing from memory to this day, by the way. Well, okay, probably not every bit of Convoy. Still.
Working 9 to 5 What a way to make a living Barely getting by It's all taking and no giving
It's a rich man's game No matter what they call it And you spend your life Putting money in his wallet!
FIST!!!!
This made me think of Falling Down (1993).
CB Radio was the internet of the time
High School friend was fired from a bowling alley in the 70s. Got a roll of quarters and selected this baby for all he had.
Not exactly an officer, nor a gentleman
I thought A Country Boy Can Survive would count but it's been years so I gave it a re-listen, it really just seems like this image as a song. Maybe back when it released your average country boy could grow crops/be self reliant but not now. Also only now learned there's a 9/11 version, seems worse.
Nothing like the subsubsubgenre "movies based on songs" (The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, I Walk The Line, Harper Valley PTA, and most anything Kenny Rogers did)
"I never forget a tongue." ... that's just genius, right there.
Johnny Cash would never even get on the air today.
Merle Haggard, Jerry Reed especially come to mind
As a sign of our current times, less than halfway thru that trailer I was checking to see how much time was left to see if I’d finish it.
There's plenty of amazing Country/Americana music right now with acts like Sturgill Simpson and Billy Strings, that likely aren't MAGA, but it lacks the working class, class consciousness, seen in 70s country.
I think part of it is they don't want to alienate the audience.
that trailer is an absolute blast!
Love it.
Take this job and shove it I ain't working here no more My woman done left And took all the reasons I was working for.
Wait…the song from Office Space is based on this? youtu.be/cdYL6Ntty54 Neat!
yep. we lived in Studio City and friends worked on it.
I mean, "9 to 5" was about workers rebelling against an abusive, sexist boss!
...WOKE MISANDRY
MIDDLE AGE CRAZY!
Me, myself, I'm a classic outlaw country fan...so hell yeah I back the blue.
If there's one movie that you could never make today, it's Norma Rae
TTJASI was also featured in an episode of Dukes of Hazzard. I remember Boss Hogg losing his mind during the chorus. Another show that fits into that genre.
And let us not forget the genre of giving middle fingers to cops. Smokey & The Bandit, Cannonball Run. And Dukes of Hazzard.
You load 15 tons, and what do ya get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
Nothing tests my ability to separate art from artist more than the music of David Allan Coe.
Hank Williams Jr still rides that trend. 🥳
Country so cool even the punk rockers dug it.
My dad was a long haul trucker my whole growing up years. We saw Convoy as a family at the drive-in. My brother and I could sing the entire song. Dad had an 8 track with all "trucker" songs. "Breaker one-nine. This here is the Rubber Duck."
You can’t AI Johnny Freaking Paycheck
Johnny Paycheck
