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He is referring to the recent Dixie Chicks furore, sparked by singer Natalie Maines's comment that the band was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas". The Chicks suddenly found that their records weren't being played on chains of radio stations.
"The real point was, somebody asked the president what he thought and he said, 'It's America, it's a free country, they can have their opinion, but there's nothing we can do about it if nobody goes to their shows or plays their songs,'" Young growls. "But he's so out of touch that his advisers haven't told him that their record sales spiked upwards when that happened, and while the airplay went down the sales went up and their concerts all sold out."
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This is probably because everyone wanted their own copy to throw under the steam roller.
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In the mid-1980s, Young, the professional contrarian, endorsed Ronald Reagan. Today, he sounds more like the songwriter who exploded to stardom with counter-culture darlings Crosby, Stills and Nash.
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All of these activist/musicians are like this. Although, in his defense, you should probably place his endorsement of Reagan in its context. Reagan, in a very weird parochial way, WAS a revolutionary. His conservatism was new to even many Republicans. I can see why a bandwagin jumper like Young would step in line....
With that said, the new album sounds interesting.