Posting an Old West ballad reminds me that, in my experience, one of the largest cultural chasms across the Atlantic is that...
Anonymous asked: Posting an Old West ballad reminds me that, in my experience, one of the largest cultural chasms across the Atlantic is that Americans are pre-programmed to accept vigilantism as acceptable in some circumstances, and Euros seem not to be
the Civil War until WWI while railroads happened people just deadshit had no idea what a unified country would even mean and worked up the craziest local shit
Also I should point out that that song was first released in 1960, after the “singing cowboy” vogue that came in with talkies, I’m not sure it’s fair to call it an “Old West ballad”
The singer was inspired by a gun he saw in North Hollywood, and used his country music career to fund his hobby of NASCAR racing, so still pretty ‘Merica though