All fans of country music must remember when the Dixie Chicks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_political_controversy got banned from country radio. It is no surprise that Loretta Lynn could write songs that would get banned from these same stations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Lynn#Controversies, but Tracy Lawrence? I don’t recall this mock rape http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1929 (look at the right side of the page) of which got him banned. I know he has had a violent past, but what is the Straight Dope here?
SSG Schwartz
Oh, I remember that! It enlivened a particularly horrendous commute. Three stations and ranting about Tracy Lawrence on every single one of them! And it went on for days. The rumor was that he threw his then-wife through a sliding glass door and that hotel rooms were destroyed in their fights. His defense was that his wife was beating him, which is always a possibility, but didn’t fly with the fans. This is just what I remember, not necessarily fact!
I think country was still stinging from the Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw/police horse incident, not to mention one of the rising (heh) hat acts being arrested for solicitation in the men’s room. (No, I don’t remember which one, but his career was *over *the next day.)
Tracy Lawrence made it back on the radio with the (IMHO) whiny, self-indulgent “Paint Me a Birmingham” and “Find Out Who Your Friends Are.”
You know, “The Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw/Police Horse Incident” sounds like a good name for a band.
This is blender.com, after all. I think it’s satire? But I dunno, was Tracy Lawrence really banned?
And did he purpotedly do the deed said? That’s why I think it’s satire. With satire you can do/say just about anything. Except what Tracy Lawrence was said to do/