John Rich: How Wokeness Killed Country Music | Stories of Us 

Taking the narrative back consists of being involved. Only We The People can save the Republic.

We can support new media and build our own and stop relying on others. America first including our financial choices. Stop paying the people who hate you and making them rich.

Wokeness isn’t just a thing in America. It affect the whole world. So don’t reduce it only to you

Yes.

@@Manu-gf3yl true.

Not only by but FOR as well.

…and they don’t even like this country.

Big time

And can't sing it...

Being made by yuppies that never lived the country way of life. Same thing happened when western movies went to crap.

He's such a whiner. He'd rather complain, cry and whine about being cancelled than make music. Sad.

@@ecstanton8385 Darn it, try as I might, I was unable to research your hit songs. I’m sure you’ve been more successful than John Rich though. I just need better research skills.

@@richboshart1201 Just a friendly reminder, success/popularity doesn’t necessarily equate to quality.

@@charlesbolton8471 It does with John Rich. Besides, in art quality is in the eye of the viewer / listener.

First time seeing this.... you are 100% right there👍👍👍

@JohnRichmusic285 Amarillo

John Rich is a very wise man! ❤

My dad too

❤️

My father was a Pastor, he was not educated and he raised 12 children we never ever went without.. the most graceful thing I'm thankful for was growing up in a stable home that never once in my life I have any fear of a broken home. .my dad did all kind of works to provide for us. And when he thought he has a secured retirement Clinton passed NAFTA and Converse Factory in Puerto Rico move to Mexico! And he had to get another job very fiscal when he was much older.. but he did what he have to do And Never ever complain

You were blessed...My dad was just like that too.

My Pops too! Worked everyday to support his family. Absolute respect ✊

Love the comment but I really liked Big and Rich.

I don't really see how you can't be a fan but ok that's cool the rest I completely agree with

At least from a purely musical perspective, I thought he was part of the movement 20 years ago that destroyed country music.

@@ressljs How, exactly?

@@gershman23 Their music was part of the trend after 2000 where "country" music was just rock, but they were wearing cowboy hats.

Isn't that yourself?

Metal head here too brother and this bubble gum version of country music lately is sickening

Check out Jacob Bryant. I really like his music and he isn't politically correct either. -- Singer: Jacob Bryant Title: Good Ol’ Boy -- "Around here every hole in the wall where we used to hang out and drink Has turned into a hipster bar where the boys wear skinny jeans Yeah, that jukebox in the corner ain’t got one Waylon song to play I guess a good ol’ boy’s damned hard to be these days."

​@cindybin2001 Are you serious? One or two beers never hurt anyone.

I'm a metalhead too, that used to listen to country until people like John helped kill it with non-country back in 2004. and you know what song I'm talking about. this guy makes me glad I'm not into country anymore. he has no reason to complain, he is all hat and no act.................

And Dottie Rambo was the best gospel song writer ever. Good luck to you and God bless and inspire you.

Alice, I sang “We Shall Behold Him” recently at a memorial service. A great song she wrote. I agree. ❤️✝️

He had a pretty cool podcast episode with TimcastIRL.

Fellow Texan here and agree 💯

John Rich while I agree with him politically and spiritually, helped ruin country music with his rap albums while he was with big and rich. He was putting this garbage out way before anyone ever uttered the term “woke” in its current context.

@@mcwilliams4546 nailed it. Garth Brooks and others also.

prager u is an israeli propaganda mill by the terrorists who wired the towers with thermite.

Amarillo is my home as well! Lived here my whole life and getting bigger. I prefer a little smaller too. But, I have faith that if Mr. John Rich, my Husband Family, Dear Friends, and lastly you☺ only bc I haven't met you personally, I think we might just have a pretty good shot in our town...birds of a feather?🕊God's will & time... God bless you & Amarillo!!🙏

@@amyware2705 Back at you, Amy!❤️🙂🙏🏻

Just up the road in little old Fritch. Lived in Amarillo too as a young man. So a big Howdy Neighbor🤠👍 It is a shame though that country music, in fact all music, is getting killed by the Woke mob. Grew up on good music of all genres and now I have a hard time listening to anything save the Eagle or KGNC.

@@dirkbsilver9260 Love Fritch! I haven't been to the lake this year but went up that way a while back (last year, I believe) to find the ranch and monuments to The Battle of Adobe Falls, where Billy Dixon landed his incredible shot! Found it! Yea! Then, Came back through Fritch and ate at a BBQ place (I can't remember the name) and, man!, was it good! Y'all got a winner, there!!!

@@mariankay6482 yep love my little hometown. Loved living in Amarillo too. Hard to beat the Burger Barrel for good old fashion burgers. Plus K-N root beer for the win in the Summer. Absolute best I have ever had.

Very great person

Amarillo or Lubbock will welcome you, just know it's a bit hotter and flatter than the UK. But here is a big Howdy from a Texas Panhandle Native.

Gave this a thumbs up because I agree. Don’t go to Austin thinking you’ll experience good country music. They went “woke” a long time ago.

Make sure you go to a gun range when you're in Texas.

unless you go to Abilene or Amarillo, you will be disappointed

Texian checking in. Then don't go to Austin, Dallas, or Houston. It has infected them. If you want to see the spirit of Texas go to the small towns, the ranches, and talk to people who get their hands dirty for a living.

I'm with you. This current climate cannot last, cannot be the future. Too many good people in the U.S. Teach your children well, and they'll be alright.

So you are ok with someone making a sexual joke about your underage daughter?

@@dragonchr15 you can be offended, sure, but offence means that it's a crime and that it can be punished according to the law, and that is surely a different concept.

Except when fanatical christians cried "Satanic" at just about everything.

You love indoctrination when it's you doing it. Look at prageru kids for example.

Wokeness is in the commie handbook

Or as Laura Ingraham would say, "Shut up and sing."

The mainstream has always been garbage and tantamount to group think. We are not losing anything of real culture significance anyway when if comes to music, TV, and movies. What people are missing is that this has been a psy-op from very beginning. The powers that be have seen fit to ‘program’ the public. The message has changed over the years, it’s just now they see an opportunity to upend the system. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity as King Charles put it. I have lived outside the main stream line entire life. None of this garbage interested me. I’m happy to see others are finally coming around. We have to build our own systems. Stop giving your time, attention and money to these scoundrels.

Wokeness destroys everything it touches. Including its strongest allies. Look at JK Rowling, who did more to attack bigotry her detractors will do in a dozen lifetimes. Now, a target.

Yes! I would love to expand on that and say, that not only is moving to the US and achieving the dream an aspiration for many, but breaking these class barriers in our own countries is. US is not just a country, it's a new civilization if you ask me. I live in a village in Serbia, and I can speak English as if it was my native language. I understand what the US is about, and I love everything country and rural in the US. I am saddened that a part of its population is trying to bring it down nowadays. A bunch of ungrateful lunatics if you ask me.

"Yeah, but equity..." Woke, progressives have been programmed to believe that EVERYONE deserves equal results, regardless of effort & proliferation of that ideology is going to be exTREMELY difficult to undo. 😕 🇺🇸

@@DoyleFM Yeah, their delusions can only be solved by introducing extreme scarcity into the environment. They won't get it until then.

It also requires that you were born a certain shade of pale. Or at least according to the men who wrote the U.S. constitution.

@@BrooklynBeTheBoro where in the constitution does it stipulate that a right only applies to white people? The preamble does not say"We the white people" it just says "We the people"

Well religion is a farce sooo

Okay…that’s pretty cool!

Exactly. For those who promote those things... I want people like us ( who understand the reason for maximum freedom and limited government, under just law and order, who understand & value the constitution and our founding principles etc. ) to remind those folks that under our government, as it was supposed to be, you ARE free to live communally if you want. Free to form all kinds of social clubs and organizations and charities. Free to get up on a soap-box and solicit donations for the poor and needy. Free to get off you A** and DO what you imagine that somehow force and corruptible officials and middle-man costs, will somehow do efficiently.... .

What a legendary statement!

@@ajb.822 you people sure didn't seem to believe that when you threw a hissy fit on January 6th and attempted to install your cult leader as America's first dictator 😂! Y'all seemed to be working overtime to skirt around the laws set in place by the government just because a narcissistic sociopathic toddler couldn't accept losing fair and square!

Same here.

you can vote your way in, but you have to shoot your way out.

If it wasn't for his singing we would have never heard of him!

You also only get to vote for fascism and dictatorship once.

@@laurashropshire57 Not True…. If Trump runs again. You get to Vote Dictatorship and Facsism twice!

Like big and rich in the 2000's

Did you know they once had a black rapping cowboy on their songs……. And somehow years later and with a change of heart that’s not woke

5 years? Have to go back a little farther than that.

It's interesting ... when he was talking about how you successfully deal with defeat, when it seems like you don't control anything ... find something you *do* control and work on that -- start from there. I think that's good advice, and it's pretty similar to the advice you'll hear from Jordan Peterson.

Well said, John Rich.

When John was fired from "Lone Star" the band wasn't even a group that I would listen to any longer.. While he was part of that group, anything they did was fantastic, they went woke before that was a thing because when he left the band was changed by the record company to produce a hit single which they did but it was glossed over BS top 40 junk

Absolutely right. It died when it sold out to pop and people had to be "good looking"

I agree. I haven't listened to a "country" radio station for years. I get all my country music from streaming and downloads. That lets me choose what I want to hear instead of letting some PC radio program manager decide for me. There is still a lot of good content and artists like John Rich out there.

TxS, I live in Sydney Australia but have been to and through the USA on 14 occasions between 1984-2013. All up I've been to 18 States, which took in 100 cities, towns and hamlets. About 2005, I began to notice your country's culture and identity changing. And in 2013 when in San Francisco, I realised America was coming apart. In the summer of 2020, it'd become clear the social structures were Parlous. Since then they've deteriorated. To gauge an insight with this can be garnered by reading the works of Lance Morrow, who's based in NYC, talking about the sociological demise of America, via Wokeism and progressive agendas. With regards to MSNBC and CNN programs I occasionally watch (Joy Reid) it's clear the colored people on those programs are virulent racists. And none of them want justice for past events, but retribution.

It is no longer just division. In the speech in Philadelphia the Regime all but declared war on half the country. The game is over. Something will rise up in the wake of the old America, and possibly it will be called America, but it will not be America.

It's because the people that are waking up are deciding that others can't do and say whatever they want and that rubs the unwoken because they don't know how to handle. If someone was able to kick a dog every day and one day it bit you, you think it's because he was having a bad day or he just got tired of being kicked?

@TxSpaceMOM, Exactly! People need to learn how to agree to disagree without getting all worked up.

Somebody from Australia should be be just as intuitive as anyone else as most anglos there are descendants of people that were exiled there, where pasification of Indigenous was standard. Aborigines and penal colony descendants should know just as much if not more than anybody how important waking up is.

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John Redcorn?

@@TmacPlushVideos Mythology and fairy tales offer no solutions to real world problems.

If you don't believe in God then that statement doesn't mean a whole lot, may as well be quoting company policy to somebody that's self employed.

What in the world is tmac plush videos supposed to be anyway, that like a cult that makes porn or something?

Thank God for Chapel Hart

I listen to that one about once a week these days, just for the relevance buuuut, it's Merle Haggard, not Waylon.

@@nsxray1966 Your right. I'm sorry. When I was listening to this interview he said Waylon Jennings and I guess I typed that. It's funny though because even though that song was written in the early 70s it's more relevant today. Another one I found with a lot of relevance is Barry Mcquires Eve of destruction. It's a hidden gem.

He also said, "change should be large, let's put a woman in charge"

What inspired you the most?

agree - I almost wasn't going to watch it but glad I did.

It would be nice if he gave examples of things he couldn't say.

@@jamese9283 Hard to pick just one: learnin how to be a dad from your own dad; payin in sweat to make your dreams happen; stayin true to your roots in the face of judgy people; having guts enough to speak your mind to the mob...

@@Competitive_Antagonist why?

Same as upchurch,, Adam calhoun, etc.

today's country music, is not country music.

Agreed. It's not Country music just because you sing in a southern accent.

I prefer anything that's got some Gutair. I love Rock, Metal, Country, Heavy Metal, anything that's got Gutair instead of todays crappy music like Ariania Grande.

@@elonmust7470 AMEN!

Y'all don't know squat about country music then 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Growing up my parents played country music in the 70-80’s and I liked it. It definitely started changing in the 90’s. It was more of a pop-country. They don’t listen to the new country. When I go over they still have country music on but it’s always the older stuff.

@@raimeyewens7518 90s had some of the best and reached a popularity it did not have in decades, 2000s is when it started to go downhill.

@Dartgame 340 They killed a lot of good stations.Not just country.

@@raimeyewens7518 I won’t listen to any country, but classic country.

The other problem with Clear Channel is radio lost its regionalism, just like TV has caused regional culture to decline.

I believe it probably still is they’re just not the ones in control.

Remember the Dixie Chic's saying how they were embarrassed of their President, which was President Bush at that time. It destroyed their career. The sad part of it, they were right! There was no Weapons of Mass Destruction. They were saying about all the soldiers that were being killed 4 nothing! They made a movie out of it! Green Zone with Matt Damon. Check the behind the scenes.

Watch the Pat Tillman documentary. & then see how u feel about ur Government?

@@Butterfly-tg3oz I know about the Pat Tillman debacle. Who said anything about the government being my jam? You don't have a clue how I feel about "the government". I didn't come in on a load o' melons! I know more then the biggest percentage of people in this country do. So much so that many of my comments of a political nature dont even "make it to press"! So I don't know what I said in my comment, which in case you want to go back and read it a few more times, since you seem to be having a hard time connecting the dots, was more about the music business than anything else. That being said, if you do think there are others countries on the face of the earth that are better places to live. than the U.S. and if you happen to be an acolyte of AOC and her anti-American Squat and think America is the a___hole of the universe, I'm not down with that either. The exceptionalism I see in America is in it's hard-working people, the kind John Rich spoke of, not in it's politicians, particularly the wokesters on the Left but also the RINOS on the Right! So I'm not quite sure where you're coming from and you sure as heck don't know where I am coming from! So unless I'm mis-reading and misinterpreting your comment, never the twain shall meet!

Believe me there are a million more like him !

Nope. God forbid you use Confederate flag imagery... Hank jr, Alabama, and of course Lynryd Skynyrd would be absolutely destroyed...

It's so weird because modern country references those guys constantly but instead of singing like them they just sing pop music from 10 years ago. Found a local station that plays songs from 20-30 years ago and that's most frequently what I listen to.

@@LifeisGood762 I have Sirius XM and they have one station that plays stuff from 80s and 90s and that's the one I listen to.

@@lmb1962 yup always listening to prime country

Exactly,I'm 62 haven't listened to knew country music for a few years know,I still have about 200 old albums I listen too all the time.🙏

So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. How are you?

But, "A Boy Named Sue" worked for him... didn't it?

@@bittersweet2253 One was a story about a boy with an unfortunate name, the other is a metaphor for riding a cowboy's d**k. What do you think?

It really drove home how impossible it is to have a career in the entertainment industry without being woke. I wonder if how many artists deep down believe it's BS but go along with it to keep working

If you can't enjoy a song that isn't a rant about wokeness, which country never has been by the way, that's your problem

What really killed country music is that it is plain boring and has been for a long time. For a long time they cared about making "hits" and all the women are good looking. Talent doesn't matter. Today's country is pop music with a twang.

@@Gnofg country music may have usually been about the same few things, but that’s also exactly how modern pop music is too, people just don’t complain about it because it’s popular with the younger generations. But now that wokeness is in everything, all genres of music have to follow the same themes, which ruined country and not pop because pop had the same wokeness as before.

@@User-jp1sj I enjoy music that doesn’t rant about wokeness. I would hate to have all my songs be about politics, that would be really repetitive and awful.

Twitter?? People should not be using that garbage platform!!

A wise man once said, “Everything Woke turns to sh*t.” 🧡

@@Ifailedeverything Indeed and he was right.

U miss watching birth of a nation huh? Lol

Wokeness is kinda like religion but unlike most religions, wokeness is toxic and evil. If the message comes first above everything else, it will drive people away just like religion. No one wants to be lectured, preached, and force fed ideologies.

Pathetic, miserable , insecure people they are.