In the lyrics to his 1974 hit, “Long-Haired Country Boy,” Charlie Daniels sings:Īs a Southern rock n’ roller-and later a country/bluegrass star-Charlie Daniels and especially these lyrics have often intrigued me. In this essay, Terry Barr comments on the myths and narratives that accompanied various musical styles when he was growing up in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1970s and ’80s.īy Terry Barr “There was long ones, tall ones, short ones, brown onesīlack ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones. It is well-known that music was a unifying element in the South’s Civil Rights movement, whether through the hymns sung by activists or the calls for integrated audiences at rock and R&B shows, so it would seem paradoxical that music could also be divisive in the years that followed.
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