![]() “Anything that affects the common man or middle America values translates itself better to country music,” Pietroluongo said. More recently, Brooks & Dunn’s “Hard Workin’ Man” and Alan Jackson’s “Little Man” covered similar ground. In the ’70s, Merle Haggard’s poignant “If We Make It Through December” and Johnny Paycheck’s rebellious “Take This Job and Shove It” captured the plight of the working class. With its populist leanings, country music has long been fertile ground for songs about economic hardship. “My own frustrations with what’s going on are in that song, and it just so happens that a lot of people feel the same way I do,” Rich said recently. While the boss man takes his bonus pay and jets on outta town,” he sings. An old school country tune with fiddle and steel guitar, it sounds spontaneous and urgent: “Because in the real world they’re shutting Detroit down. Rich, half of the hit duo Big & Rich, wrote and recorded his song in a fit of outrage over corporate bailouts. But there’s something about country it’s simply put.” Not that pop and rock can’t be, or even rap. “I always like to brag on country music because I think it’s such a lyric-driven genre,” Vassar said.
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