In 1995 Parton began her Imagination Library project, which sent an age-appropriate book to every child in the county every month until they were five. “My father could not read and write, and I saw how crippling that could be,” she explained. It expanded nationwide in 2000, internationally in 2006, and nearly 25m books are now distributed each year across the US, Canada, Australia, the UK and Ireland.[…] Parton explained that as well as improving child literacy, “it’s the fact they get recognised. They get this little book with their little name on it in the mail, and they feel special. They start taking pride in themselves, and they know that somebody out there is thinking of [them].”
May she rest in peace
My kid got Imagination Library books for a while. It’s a nice program!
My kid has a bunch of Imagination Library books, we’ll definitely be reading some tonight.
Dolly’s favorite was the Little Engine that Could IIRC - I think it’s usually the first one you get 😢
She was a load bearing celebrity with incredible PR, with her gone there are no ‘good’ rich people left in the public eye
a gem of a gal. RIP :(
Gonna watch 9-5 in her honor.
Conjecture: 9 to 5 was the last good country song.
I don’t know enough other country to certify this take as
However, Willie Nelson/Dolly Parton/Johnny Cash style country is clearly lost for cosplay and reactionary thought.
I’m sure Baudrillard would have something to say about this. Same thing regarding socialist thought. Being pro-Palestine and anti-War were pretty much standard sentiments for leftists in the early 2000s. Now, if you’re a klanner on race relations but claim to be for a 2 state solution, you’re considered pretty much a revolutionary.
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-119-how-the-right-shaped-pop-country-music
The official website podcast already weighed in a few yrs ago.
Chuck Johnny Paycheck in there too
Johnny Paycheck was an actual outlaw amongst his peers. Dude would show up at his shows unannounced, drink beer and start fist fights.
Also shot a guy for his hat
Highly recommend Devil Makes Three
Good example: Never Learn
Other bangers:
Poison Trees
Sweeping
Tow
Beneath the Piano
The Bullet
The Plank
St James Infermary (live sped up cover)
Is devil makes three country? I’ve read people calling them bluegrass, folk, and even rock. Which is whatever, they fucking rule.
I think much of their songs fall into the broader Outlaw Country genre, but yes bluegrass, folk, and yes a bit of rock. Also I have pet Pete Bernhard and I swear he is like a secret Maoist or something. Very cool dude. The ones I listed definitely have some very country bluegrass twang and bluegrass itself is sort of country subgenre.
But yes they are one of if not my favorite band of all time. A hell of a lot of class consciousness and marxist-adjacent critique of cops, landlords, even imperialism.
For example Poison Trees is a very clear critique of the entire institution of US policing and civil rights struggles, Never Learn is less clear but has obvious anti-landlord/enclosure of the commons/exploitation themes with a clear understanding that if we could unite we could bring the entire global economy to a halt to make our demands impossible to ignore.
Sweeping is just outright anti-imperialist.
And as for country, Beneath the Piano is possibly one of the most country songs of all time.
*Edit: LMAO met not pet, but that is too funny a typo so I’m leaving it.
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Modern country is a mockery of what it once was.
Counterpoint: Jello Biafra/ Mojo Nixon’s “Prairie Home Invasion” album.
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Check out Adeem the Artist, non-binary communist country singer.
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The song slaps so hard too.
Thanks
not my favorite drag queen
Who lost an impersonation contest of her self!!! Legit, one of the funniest things imaginable.
Graham Greene got second prize for his anonymous submission to a “write a Graham Greene parody” contest
Same thing happened to Charlie Chaplain, funny enough.
Man, fuck this timeline.
I wanna go back to the Berenstein Bears universe.
How is it that I find out about every major death through Hexbear?
I think because we try real hard to stay away from the rest of the web.
I had a crush on her as a kid after seeing 9-5. RIP to a real one.
A couple days ago I got served a bunch of dolly Parton interview moments videos, and my favorite was when someone asked her how long it takes for her to get her hair done and she, without missing a beat, says “I don’t know sweetheart, I’m never there for it”.
She was so awesome
That’s a kick in the ribs
Hopefully, she passed peacefully
RIP queenAw man. RIP.
Tell me this is badposting…
TELL ME THIS IS BADPOSTING
welcome to sadposting
Islands in the stream - that is what we are
Sucks to see the good ones go. This news gets me the way John Prine did
