#cotton fields as imagery is a rlly loaded thing in the us south bc it's associated w slavery and sharecropping | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

waitingforminjae · 1 year

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just discovered colter wall and wanted to know if you’ve listened to him sinse you’re into country 👀 he’s got a bery cool voice, someone said his music was more of a hobby and he mainly worked as a farmhand

omg yeah!!!!!!!!! i've got two of his songs in my playlist omg

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but beyond that i haven't listened to him much, so I'll have to check out more of his stuff! i rlly like these two songs a lot ❤️

#his description of the devil as a white man in a suit and tie coming to offer the speaker a bad deal is sooooooooooooooooo #and the description of him being white as a cotton field and sharp as a knife.......#cotton fields as imagery is a rlly loaded thing in the us south bc it's associated w slavery and sharecropping #but i always personally liked here in association with the devil bc it further leans on that terrible context #esp combined w the devil being the white man in a suit with a bad deal that he tricks the speaker into #always felt like that was brilliant and sort of twist on how white artists typically involve cotton fields #in a very problematic nostalgic way :/#anyway that was a random skip on the surface of southern history 😭#the asks and the answers #music

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