Johnny Rebel the South Shall Rise Again Lyrics
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| Birth name | Clifford Joseph Trahan |
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| Born | (1938-09-25)September 25, 1938 Moss Barefaced, Louisiana, U.Southward. |
| Died | September 3, 2016(2016-09-03) (aged 77) Rayne, Louisiana, U.S. |
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| Years agile | 1966–2003 |
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Clifford Joseph Trahan (September 25, 1938 – September 3, 2016), ameliorate known by the stage names Johnny Rebel and Pee Wee Trahan, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who performed songs that were supportive of white supremacy.[1] He used the Johnny Rebel name for a series of recordings for J. D. "Jay" Miller's Reb Rebel label in the 1960s in response to the civil rights movement.[two] The 12 songs showroom racial hatred marketed as "subtle, rib-tickling satire".[three] [four] The songs frequently used the racial slur "nigger" and oftentimes voiced sympathy for racial segregation, the KKK, and the Confederacy.
After retiring in 2003, Trahan claimed that he "but did it for the coin" and that he "didn't fix out to spread hate or starting time trouble". He said, "At that fourth dimension, there was a lot of resentment – whites toward blacks and blacks toward whites. So, everybody had their own feelings. Lots of people inverse their feelings over the years. I basically changed my feelings over the years up to a betoken."[5]
Early life
Trahan as a junior in high school, 1955
Clifford Joseph Trahan was born in Moss Bluff, Louisiana, on September 25, 1938, the son of Elizabeth Breaux Taylor and Homer Trahan.[half dozen] Following his parents' divorce, he moved with his mother to Crowley, Louisiana, where he picked up an interest in music and received his outset guitar as a gift at the historic period of 12. He graduated from Crowley High School in 1956.[five]
Career
Trahan became shut with record producer J. D. "Jay" Miller, a cousin of his, and recorded several land songs nether the alias of Tommy Todd. Those songs never became commercial successes and Trahan moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to record with newly founded Todd Records. He became shut with Murray Nash, a songwriter for country vocalist George Morgan, and recorded four songs with Todd Records, just the characterization folded in 1964.[5]
Trahan then worked as a shipyard inspector in Mississippi earlier returning to Louisiana. Miller had founded Reb Insubordinate Records, which recorded segregationist music, and urged Trahan to tape songs with the new label. Trahan obliged, recording under the alias of Johnny Rebel, a name Miller had selected. Miller produced the sessions and issued the recordings through Reb Rebel.[4] [5]
Trahan'southward first release—the fifth for the Reb Insubordinate characterization—was a 45 RPM unmarried of "Lookin' for a Handout" and "Kajun Ku Klux Klan". He then recorded more singles for the label: "Nigger, Nigger", "Coon Town", "Who Likes a Nigger?", "Nigger Hatin' Me", "Notwithstanding Looking for a Handout", "Some Niggers Never Die (They Just Olfactory property That Way)", "Stay Away from Dixie", and "Movement Them Niggers North".[4]
Few of Trahan's songs business organisation topics other than race. These exceptions include "Keep a-Workin' Big Jim", about the efforts of Louisiana commune attorney Jim Garrison to solve the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and "(Federal Help Hell!) The Money Belongs to Us", a vocal critical of U.S. federal assistance programs.[5] Two of these songs were eventually issued in anthology format past Reb Rebel Records under the title For Segregationists Only.[iv]
In 1974, Trahan'southward song "Lâche pas la patate" (as well known as "The White potato Song"), sung by Jimmy C. Newman, was released in Canada.[7]
Johnny Insubordinate'due south songs found some popularity in some Southern juke joints, but never received radio airplay, and in fourth dimension Trahan largely forgot about the venture. With the emergence of the Net, Johnny Rebel gained newfound fame, and Trahan hired fan Brad Herman as his new director in 2001. He then recorded and released a new song titled "Pagan Canticle", describing the "whipping" America should lay on Osama bin Laden following the September 11 attacks. Herman booked him on The Howard Stern Show, where he promoted the song. This led to increased interest in his music. Trahan somewhen cut ties with Herman, simply released two records in 2003.[five]
CD design
A CD compilation of his works simply shows a hooded fellow member of the Ku Klux Klan together with a depiction of the Amalgamated battle flag. The cover of the album It'south the Attitude, Stupid! shows a hooded Klansman, property what appears to be either a walkman or an MP3 player with a Confederate flag texture, and wearing headphones.
Performances
Co-ordinate to Trahan, he only performed a Johnny Rebel song in one case. He said that he was performing in Kaplan, Louisiana, when someone in the crowd requested a Rebel song, and he obliged after making sure at that place were no black people in the audience.[5]
Personal life
In a 2003 interview, Trahan claimed that he "just did information technology for the money" and that he "didn't prepare out to spread hate or starting time trouble". He said, "At that time, there was a lot of resentment – whites toward blacks and blacks toward whites. So, everybody had their own feelings. Lots of people inverse their feelings over the years. I basically changed my feelings over the years upwards to a bespeak."[5] However, he did accept an outcome with reparations for slavery and said, "Blacks develop an attitude towards the whites, and they won't let it go. They won't let become of what happened. Why should we pay reparations for things that happened 200 years ago? I was run out of my land. [...] My ancestors were run out of Nova Scotia."[5]
Expiry
Trahan died in Rayne, Louisiana, on September 3, 2016.[half dozen] He was 77 years old.[8] [ non-master source needed ]
Misattributions
Johnny Rebel is often misidentified equally the pseudonym of land vocalizer David Allan Coe,[9] who accomplished popularity during the 1970s and 1980s. The confusion stems in part from the song "Nigger Fucker", which appears on Coe's Cloak-and-dagger Album. Coe has been quoted as maxim, "Anyone that hears [Cloak-and-dagger Album] and says I'thousand a racist is full of shit."[10]
Some of Johnny Insubordinate'southward songs have too been misattributed to Johnny Horton, an American state singer who died in 1960. The defoliation appears to stem from a song by Horton titled "Johnny Reb".[11]
Impact
An Anti-Defamation League report noted that "since the 1960s, when racist country singer Johnny Rebel recorded songs such as 'N-- Hatin' Me,' [sic] more 500 hate stone bands take formed worldwide".[5]
Johnny Insubordinate's songs have been covered past other singers such as Big Reb and the German neo-Nazi band Landser, which covered his "Coon Town" nether the title "Kreuzberg" in 1997.
In 2003, the website of white supremacist record label Resistance Records listed Johnny Insubordinate'due south Klassic Klan Kompositions album as its No. ii seller, second but to the video game Ethnic Cleansing.[5]
In 2005, the Johnny Rebel song "Some Niggers Never Die (They Only Smell That Way)" was used in Crispin Glover's motion picture What Is It? [12]
In 2010, the television series The Boondocks parodied Johnny Insubordinate'due south music in the episode "The Story of Jimmy Rebel".
Discography
Studio albums
| Year | Album details |
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| 1971 | For Segregationists Simply
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| 2003 | The Complete Johnny Rebel Collection
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It's the Attitude, Stupid!
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Singles
| Twelvemonth | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||
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| 1966 | "Lookin' for a Handout / Kajun Ku Klux Klan" | — | For Segregationists Just | ||
| "Nigger Hatin' Me / Who Likes a Nigger" | — | ||||
| 1967 | "(Federal Aid Hell!) The Money Belongs to Us / Proceed a Workin' Big Jim" | — | |||
| 1968 | "Nigger, Nigger / Move Them Niggers North" | — | |||
| 1969 | "Coon Boondocks / Still Looking for a Handout" | — | |||
| 1970 | "Some Niggers Never Die / Stay Away from Dixie" | "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||
References
- ^ Tsioulcas, Anastasia (September 14, 2017). "Later Labels Object, White Nationalist Stormfront Radio Stops Using Johnny Cash". NPR. Retrieved July ix, 2019.
- ^ Carpenter, Zoë (June 23, 2015). "A History of Hate Rock From Johnny Rebel to Dylann Roo". The Nation.
- ^ Bernard, Shane K. (2003). The Cajuns: Americanization of a People. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. pp. 63–64. ISBN9781604734966.
- ^ a b c d Broven, John (1983). S to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican. pp. 252–253. ISBN0-88289-608-3.
- ^ a b c d due east f one thousand h i j k Pittman, Nick (June 9, 2003). "Johnny Insubordinate Speaks". The Advocate.
- ^ a b "Johnny Rebel". NNDB.
- ^ "Lâche pas la patate". discogs.
- ^ "Clifford Joseph "Pee Wee" Trahan (1938-2016) -". Find a Grave.
- ^ "1967 LOOKIN' FOR A HANDOUT Johnny Rebel on Reb Rebel". PopSike.com.
- ^ Leroy, Dan (July fourteen, 2005). "Coe Revisits Penitentiary". Rolling Stone.
- ^ Strom, Phoebe (2014). "Defining Dixie: Creating and Deploying Country Music's Mythic South – Written at Rhodes Higher" (PDF). Memphis, Tennessee: Rhodes Higher.
- ^ "What Is It? (2005)". IMDb.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Rebel_(singer)