The song Honkin Tonk  by Hank Williams is about people moving to the south, a man cheating on a women, and then asking her to bring money. His voice in the song sounded like a donkey. It was very odd. The country music during this time is different than what it is today. Today’s country music has been more modernized and I think it also is trying to lean toward the genre of pop rather than being a pure country song.

Buck Owens and the Buckaroos are the second country band to play at Carnegie Hall in 1963. Their music was different than older country music, like from Hank Williams, because it involved drums. This is where the country music started to sound more like pop.

King Records was run by Syd Nathan, a Jewish immigrant in Cincinnati. This industrial city has a lot of black and white immigrants. The first singer he signed in the record label was Cowboy Copas. The song Filipino Baby is about a romance with a Filipino woman. Is this an artifact of white privilege, a white man talking about a dark skinned woman? It is. It just sounds like the women is a “collection of body parts.” You would not normally see a dark skinned woman writing about a white man. This adds along to the topic of racism.  White people tend to speed up the music.  Within the structure of segregation, there are alternate desires to be expressed.