The Seein’ Red Blues
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Outside magazine, November 1995
The Seein’ Red Blues “Cowboys are always depicted as easygoing. Not me,” says 56-year-old Weatherford, Texas, songwriter Don Edwards. Meaning? “I’m the cowboy from hell. Good Lord, in the old days, if you weren’t pissed, you weren’t a singer at all.” Edwards decries cowboy-hobbling enviros and pesky bureaucrats in favorites like “Rancher’s Song”: The rancher is the man Equally miffed is Carl Klang of Colton, Oregon, the militia movement’s Dan Fogelberg. In easy-listening albums with names like “Watch Out for Martial Law,” Klang, 42, wails about pushy greens, the FBI, and, of course, gun laws: They say they want to “The music business feeds people’s hedonistic lower levels–the lust, the drinking, the divorces,” says Klang. “Music should lift people. But the godlessness continues.” |