Flex & Wolt's Thread of Truckliness

[Flex]

My "American" mind can't process it either.

Just let the eagle tears of freedom course through your veins

[Dr. Medulla]

Somewhere, in god's party room, the Founding Fathers are all going, "Fuck yeah, that's what it was all about!"

[revbob]

My "American" mind can't process it either.

Mine can and it's awash in awesome.

[Sparky]

My "American" mind can't process it either.

Mine can and it's awash in awesome.

And yet I own a pickup truck, go figure.

[Flex]

And yet I own a pickup truck, go figure.

Get yourself a set of these and all will make sense:

[Sparky]

And yet I own a pickup truck, go figure.

Get yourself a set of these and all will make sense:

Possibly....I'm a no bumper stickers, no flags a flyin', no gun rack in the back window, no train air horns kind of truck owner myself.

[Dr. Medulla]

Folks, time to take up a collection so that Sparky can nut up his truck. He must be punished for remaining part of this community!

[Sparky]

Folks, time to take up a collection so that Sparky can nut up his truck. He must be punished for remaining part of this community!

[Flex]

A Ska Thread/Truckliness crossover spectacular. From one of Colorado's finest ska bands, Skank Williams

[Silent Majority]

I'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.

As someone representing a nation between the UK and US, I feel qualified to arbitrate. And I rule in favour of the Limeys on this one.

[Flex]

I'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.

As someone representing a nation between the UK and US, I feel qualified to arbitrate. And I rule in favour of the Limeys on this one.

Greil Marcus, in discussing the recording of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, relays that someone at the studio (can't remember who and I can't be bothered to find it, but it was a decent industry name) heard Dylan recording and said he should be recording down in Nashville. Then Dylan did a run through of Oxford Town and everyone decided there's no way Dylan could record in Nashville.

So, there's something there.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.

As someone representing a nation between the UK and US, I feel qualified to arbitrate. And I rule in favour of the Limeys on this one.

Greil Marcus, in discussing the recording of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, relays that someone at the studio (can't remember who and I can't be bothered to find it, but it was a decent industry name) heard Dylan recording and said he should be recording down in Nashville. Then Dylan did a run through of Oxford Town and everyone decided there's no way Dylan could record in Nashville.

So, there's something there.

And it's only a few years later that he does record Nashville Skyline. How much of a stretch you want to accept those three or four years, given his stylistic output in between, that's something else.

[Flex]

I'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.

As someone representing a nation between the UK and US, I feel qualified to arbitrate. And I rule in favour of the Limeys on this one.

Greil Marcus, in discussing the recording of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, relays that someone at the studio (can't remember who and I can't be bothered to find it, but it was a decent industry name) heard Dylan recording and said he should be recording down in Nashville. Then Dylan did a run through of Oxford Town and everyone decided there's no way Dylan could record in Nashville.

So, there's something there.

And it's only a few years later that he does record Nashville Skyline. How much of a stretch you want to accept those three or four years, given his stylistic output in between, that's something else.

I think two events got him in the Nashville door: 1) not recording songs explicitly about the south's racial segregation and violence anymore, 2) the development of country rock (which he was, in fact, a part of creating) opener the door for an electrified Dylan to go cut songs with a great who's who of Nashville session guys. I mean, maybe Dylan could do what he wanted anyways but I think the landscape by '69 for making country-rock records was pretty different than trying to do a "woke" folk record in Nashville circa '62.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm going to claim that Maggies Farm is a country song. It's about a farm after all.

As someone representing a nation between the UK and US, I feel qualified to arbitrate. And I rule in favour of the Limeys on this one.

Greil Marcus, in discussing the recording of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, relays that someone at the studio (can't remember who and I can't be bothered to find it, but it was a decent industry name) heard Dylan recording and said he should be recording down in Nashville. Then Dylan did a run through of Oxford Town and everyone decided there's no way Dylan could record in Nashville.

So, there's something there.

And it's only a few years later that he does record Nashville Skyline. How much of a stretch you want to accept those three or four years, given his stylistic output in between, that's something else.

I think two events got him in the Nashville door: 1) not recording songs explicitly about the south's racial segregation and violence anymore, 2) the development of country rock (which he was, in fact, a part of creating) opener the door for an electrified Dylan to go cut songs with a great who's who of Nashville session guys. I mean, maybe Dylan could do what he wanted anyways but I think the landscape by '69 for making country-rock records was pretty different than trying to do a "woke" folk record in Nashville circa '62.

It's always reflexive to treat Dylan as distinct from everything else going on, or as leading the way by a year or two, but, yeah, the environment, musical and cultural, was more encouraging by 1969 for a country-rock hybrid. But at the same time, it was a way of fucking with his fans who just wanted more of what they'd already heard and loved. Even if I can't say I'm a fan of his aesthetic (I don't hate it, either, mind you), I love his resistance to fan expectation.