Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution presents:
Monday Breakfast Blend with Emily: Anti-Cop Country
Good morning and thanks for joining me for a heaping helping of country that doesn’t call 911! The playlist today defines country broadly — we’ve got classic outlaw country in here, of course, but also old time and Southern folk and blues. This haters’ ball takes on not only policemen, but jailers, judges, and company bosses, too. From songs decrying the “gun thugs” hired by coal company bosses to violently oppress miners to songs musing on fantasy worlds bereft of policing; from songs about life in the carceral system to songs espousing the joys of defying cops just to run the roads and get high — it’s all in here. See you in two weeks!
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There is an extended playlist for this episode at this link that includes everything played in this episode plus a bunch more.
The music playing while I talk is all from the compilation My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Vol. 2 released by Yazoo in 1998.
You can follow me on Twitter at @imtired_666 and Instagram at @imtired666; my website is here.
Show Archive
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The Spare Change Boys, “Policeman”
from Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2003
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Kris Kristofferson, “The Law Is for the Protection of the People”
KK Records - 2016
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Waylon Jennings, “Theme from "The Dukes of Hazzard" (Good Ol' Boys)”
from Music Man
Legacy Recordings - 1980
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Sturgill Simpson, “Call to Arms”
from Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 2 (Cowboy Arms Sessions)
High Top Mountain Records - 2020
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Tyler Childers, “Long Violent History”
from Long Violent History
Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records - 2020
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Johnny Cash, “Folsom Prison Blues”
from The Cash Collection: The Mercury Years 1987-1991
Mercury Records - 2011
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Lead Belly, “Midnight Special”
from The Library of Congress Recordings: Leadbelly - Midnight Special, Vol. 1
Rounder - 2006
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Kilby Reeves, “County Jail / Long Lonesome Road”
from Ballads and Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains: Persistence and Change
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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"Lightning" Washington and group, “Long Gone”
from Jail House Bound: John Lomax's First Southern Prison Recordings, 1933
Global Jukebox - 2012
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Hazel Dickens, “They'll Never Keep Us Down”
from Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People
Rounder - 1980
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Florence Reece & The Almanac Singers, “Which Side Are You On?”
from Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2006
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Doc Watson, “Walking Boss”
from The Original Folkways Recordings of Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley, 1960-1962
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1994
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Johnny Cash, “This Side of the Law”
from I Walk the Line (Original Soundtrack Recording)
Columbia Nashville Legacy - 1970
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Highwaymen, “The Road Goes On Forever”
from The Road Goes On Forever (10th Anniversary Edition)
Liberty - 1995
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Emily Robinson Monday Breakfast Blend – Women Art Revolution February 15th, 2021
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