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Bluegrass Hall of Fame member Roland White has made music for more than sixty years. He performed with his brother, Clarence White, in the Kentucky Colonels, then played with Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Country Gazette, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band before forming the Roland White Band.
Jim Lauderdale is a country, bluegrass, and Americana singer-songwriter. He has released more than thirty studio albums, and his songs have been recorded by Solomon Burke, Elvis Costello, the Dixie Chicks, Vince Gill, George Jones, Patty Loveless, Blake Shelton, Ralph Stanley, George Strait, and Lee Ann Womack.
The two musicians recently released Jim Lauderdale and Roland White, an album that was recorded in Earl Scruggs’s Nashville basement in 1979, but was lost for almost forty years. Lauderdale and White will be accompanied by Diane Bouska and Brian Christianson.
Also on the show was Andros Townsend who played under Benitez at Newcastle who said he was amazing for him and around the training ground. Take it whatever way you want but thought it was worth mentioning as it was on Jim White's show.
Link here with timestamp for anyone who wants to listen:
I've tried asking this once or twice to no avail, but didn't really get a response. This is obviously inspired by recent questions of voter suppression but I am genuinely curious about the history, not just the present politics.
One of the things that I didn't realize about Jim Crow voting laws growing up was that unlike segregation, they do not seem to be written explicitly along racial lines. They typically enacted disenfranchisement indirectly by targeting ostensibly non-racial traits like literacy or the ability to pay a tax. I have to assume that this workaround was for the purpose of avoiding the 15th amendment, which seems to forbid explicit disenfranchisement by race.
This made me wonder: when people defended Jim Crow voting laws, what did they say? Did Southern politicians directly acknowledge that it was targeting black people, or did they feel compelled to use other excuses in their rhetoric? And if they did use other excuses, did any of the public actually buy into it, or was it largely recognized that it was all about race?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPugBOlg6Vk
And yes, I just finished rewatching Breaking Bad.
I am looking for the full source of this clip, https://youtu.be/5Agx492B4FY?t=431. Thank you in advance!
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