No one has heard it, despite the song being number one for 23 weeks, how can this be? Well, “Rolling Stone” posited that it’s hatred of country music: “WHAT SOME FOLKS REALLY MEAN WHEN THEY CLAIM TO HAVE NEVER HEARD ‘CHOOSIN’ TEXAS’ Proclaiming you’re unfamiliar with Ella Langley’s record-setting song has a lot in common […]

Original article: https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/10/long-hair-tattoos/ The original e-mail that inspired my screed: Bob…. Long time reader and have enjoyed your postings so much but what is your thing against long hair on guys? I just played a big outdoor festival up here in Alaska this weekend and there were tons of guys with long hair and tattoos, […]

Rock and roll was the other. Outsiders questioning precepts. It was anything but me-too. No one wore their hair long before the Beatles. And isn’t it interesting that today Paul & Ringo wear their hair short, and have for quite a while. They don’t want to be boxed in by an identity, they don’t want […]

Used to be if you wanted to know which way the wind blew, you’d listen to a record. But we haven’t had that spirit here since 1969. Why? It’s cracking me up watching Washington, D.C. and the Democratic establishment and long in the tooth commentators flip out about democratic socialism. It’s like parents reacting to […]