Marc Reyes (@marcus1984.bsky.social)

"Considering the rightward trend of country music through the last half-century, it sounds odd to hear a mainstream country singer endorsing communal economic programs. In Cash’s youth, however, country musicians were behind the New Deal." (We've always known Johnny Cash was cool.)

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Down in Dyess Johnny Cash wrote in his autobiography, “I grew up under socialism—kind of.” https://contingentmagazine.org/2021/05/19/down-in-dyess/