Bill Still’s video on the greenback:
got me thinking about my childhood experience of my father’s acquisition of a stereo built by a ham radio operator friend of his, including Heathkit tube amp and custom built speakers (down to the coils, magnets cones etc.).
Being one generation away from the move out of Sullivan County TN to Knoxville IA, he bought some blue grass music records. This was around the time that the Kingston Trio had a hit record called “Greenback Dollar” which, much to the consternation of the fundamentalist Christian folk who had relatives up in those mountains still with stills (probably where Bill got his surname) in their back yards, had the word “damn” bleeped out of the top 40 radio stations of the early 60’s.
(“New Frontier” in this context perfectly fits with what I’m saying about the betrayal of the Nation of Settlers such as the Scotch Irish as I describe in this Xeet.)
When Bill Still talked about Lincoln’s “see figure 1” to the bankers about the greenback, it struck me as somewhat “ironic” that there would have been a folk song critical of the “greenback” out of that Scotch Irish culture that formed the backbone of the US revolutionary army and, to this day, forms the backbone of what Bill Still calls “The Citadel of Freedom”. The greenback had, after all, been something of a populist cause célèbre (if I may use that ironic construction) – yet here we had the revival of interest in folk music – a capture of the populist culture if you will – DAMNING it!
Well, wouldn’t you know it:
As with almost all of the rest of the revival of bluegrass and folk music of the late 1950s and early 1960s, it wasn’t of “folk” origin at all. It was composed to ape folk music in the late 1950s and was promoted by broadcast radio stations to appeal to that culture.
Nor was this “anti-materialist folk revival” a “commie conspiracy” so much as luxury belief promoted by an intra-white class war where those who felt secure enough in their material wealth to afford family formation could look down on people in places like Levitt Town who were struggling to afford their mortgages. Little did those people realize that their children would be struggling under the crushing weight of a many-dimensional attack on fertility rates – urbanization, female “empowerment” facade for enslaving women to “produce” not children but GDP and taxes, replacing the pulpit with the picture and lecture podium, replacing Christ with Jews as the only worthy light unto the world – crucified in WW II (well, except for maybe Private Ryan’s brothers but even Private Ryan needed forgiveness in the end didn’t he?), immigration competing for lower class jobs, DEI competing for middle class secure jobs in civil service, later immigration amplified by DEI competing for all middle class jobs, and, as Billy Joel sang “on and on and on and on…” because, after all, HE didn’t start the fire so blame it all on yourselves you losers.
One of the best sendups of pseudo folk music was the movie “A Mighty Wind”. You gotta see it if you haven’t.