The South Will Rise Again Johnny Rebel Lyrics
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| Birth proper noun | Clifford Joseph Trahan |
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| Born | (1938-09-25)September 25, 1938 Moss Barefaced, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | September 3, 2016(2016-09-03) (aged 77) Rayne, Louisiana, U.South. |
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| Years active | 1966–2003 |
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Clifford Joseph Trahan (September 25, 1938 – September iii, 2016), better 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 Insubordinate label in the 1960s in response to the ceremonious rights movement.[two] The 12 songs exhibit racial hatred marketed as "subtle, rib-tickling satire".[3] [4] The songs frequently used the racial slur "nigger" and often voiced sympathy for racial segregation, the KKK, and the Confederacy.
Afterwards retiring in 2003, Trahan claimed that he "only did it for the money" and that he "didn't set out to spread hate or first problem". He said, "At that time, in that location was a lot of resentment – whites toward blacks and blacks toward whites. So, everybody had their ain feelings. Lots of people inverse their feelings over the years. I basically changed my feelings over the years up to a point."[five]
Early on life
Trahan as a junior in high schoolhouse, 1955
Clifford Joseph Trahan was born in Moss Bluff, Louisiana, on September 25, 1938, the son of Elizabeth Breaux Taylor and Homer Trahan.[6] Following his parents' divorce, he moved with his mother to Crowley, Louisiana, where he picked up an interest in music and received his beginning guitar as a souvenir at the age of 12. He graduated from Crowley High School in 1956.[5]
Career
Trahan became close with record producer J. D. "Jay" Miller, a cousin of his, and recorded several country 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 close with Murray Nash, a songwriter for country singer George Morgan, and recorded iv songs with Todd Records, only the label folded in 1964.[5]
Trahan so worked as a shipyard inspector in Mississippi before returning to Louisiana. Miller had founded Reb Insubordinate Records, which recorded segregationist music, and urged Trahan to record songs with the new label. Trahan obliged, recording nether the alias of Johnny Insubordinate, a name Miller had selected. Miller produced the sessions and issued the recordings through Reb Insubordinate.[iv] [5]
Trahan's offset release—the 5th for the Reb Rebel characterization—was a 45 RPM single 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", "Withal Looking for a Handout", "Some Niggers Never Die (They Just Smell That Way)", "Stay Away from Dixie", and "Move Them Niggers North".[4]
Few of Trahan's songs concern topics other than race. These exceptions include "Keep a-Workin' Big Jim", about the efforts of Louisiana district chaser Jim Garrison to solve the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and "(Federal Aid Hell!) The Coin Belongs to The states", a song disquisitional of U.Due south. federal aid programs.[5] Two of these songs were somewhen issued in album format past Reb Rebel Records under the championship For Segregationists Just.[4]
In 1974, Trahan'southward song "Lâche pas la patate" (as well known as "The White potato Vocal"), sung by Jimmy C. Newman, was released in Canada.[7]
Johnny Rebel's songs institute some popularity in some Southern juke joints, but never received radio airplay, and in time Trahan largely forgot most the venture. With the emergence of the Internet, Johnny Rebel gained newfound fame, and Trahan hired fan Brad Herman as his new manager in 2001. He then recorded and released a new vocal titled "Pagan Anthem", describing the "whipping" America should lay on Osama bin Laden following the September 11 attacks. Herman booked him on The Howard Stern Prove, where he promoted the song. This led to increased interest in his music. Trahan eventually cutting ties with Herman, but released two records in 2003.[5]
CD design
A CD compilation of his works but shows a hooded member of the Ku Klux Klan together with a depiction of the Confederate boxing flag. The cover of the album It's the Mental attitude, Stupid! shows a hooded Klansman, belongings what appears to be either a walkman or an MP3 histrion with a Confederate flag texture, and wearing headphones.
Performances
According to Trahan, he simply performed a Johnny Rebel song once. He said that he was performing in Kaplan, Louisiana, when someone in the crowd requested a Rebel song, and he obliged subsequently 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 set out to spread hate or start trouble". He said, "At that fourth dimension, there was a lot of resentment – whites toward blacks and blacks toward whites. Then, everybody had their own feelings. Lots of people changed their feelings over the years. I basically changed my feelings over the years upward to a point."[five] However, he did have an effect with reparations for slavery and said, "Blacks develop an attitude towards the whites, and they won't allow it go. They won't permit go of what happened. Why should we pay reparations for things that happened 200 years ago? I was run out of my state. [...] My ancestors were run out of Nova Scotia."[v]
Death
Trahan died in Rayne, Louisiana, on September 3, 2016.[6] He was 77 years old.[8] [ non-primary source needed ]
Misattributions
Johnny Rebel is often misidentified every bit 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 Underground Album. Coe has been quoted as maxim, "Anyone that hears [Underground Album] and says I'm a racist is full of shit."[ten]
Some of Johnny Rebel'due south songs take likewise been misattributed to Johnny Horton, an American country vocalist who died in 1960. The defoliation appears to stem from a song by Horton titled "Johnny Reb".[11]
Bear upon
An Anti-Defamation League study noted that "since the 1960s, when racist land vocalist Johnny Insubordinate recorded songs such as 'N-- Hatin' Me,' [sic] more than 500 detest rock bands have formed worldwide".[v]
Johnny Rebel's songs take been covered by other singers such as Big Reb and the German language neo-Nazi band Landser, which covered his "Coon Town" under the title "Kreuzberg" in 1997.
In 2003, the website of white supremacist record label Resistance Records listed Johnny Rebel'southward Klassic Klan Kompositions anthology as its No. 2 seller, 2d only to the video game Ethnic Cleansing.[5]
In 2005, the telly series The Town parodied Johnny Rebel's music in i of the episode "The Story of Jimmy Rebel". That same year, the Johnny Rebel song "Some Niggers Never Die (They Just Smell That Mode)" was used in Crispin Glover's film What Is Information technology? [12]
Discography
Studio albums
| Year | Album details |
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| 1971 | For Segregationists Merely
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| 2003 | The Complete Johnny Rebel Collection
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It's the Attitude, Stupid!
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Singles
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Anthology | ||
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| 1966 | "Lookin' for a Handout / Kajun Ku Klux Klan" | — | For Segregationists Merely | ||
| "Nigger Hatin' Me / Who Likes a Nigger" | — | ||||
| 1967 | "(Federal Aid Hell!) The Money Belongs to United states of america / Keep a Workin' Big Jim" | — | |||
| 1968 | "Nigger, Nigger / Move Them Niggers North" | — | |||
| 1969 | "Coon Boondocks / Notwithstanding Looking for a Handout" | — | |||
| 1970 | "Some Niggers Never Die / Stay Away from Dixie" | "—" denotes releases that did non chart | |||
References
- ^ Tsioulcas, Anastasia (September xiv, 2017). "Later on Labels Object, White Nationalist Stormfront Radio Stops Using Johnny Cash". NPR. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
- ^ Carpenter, Zoë (June 23, 2015). "A History of Detest Rock From Johnny Insubordinate to Dylann Roo". The Nation.
- ^ Bernard, Shane K. (2003). The Cajuns: Americanization of a People. Jackson, Mississippi: Academy Printing of Mississippi. pp. 63–64. ISBN9781604734966.
- ^ a b c d Broven, John (1983). South to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican. pp. 252–253. ISBN0-88289-608-iii.
- ^ a b c d e f chiliad h i j thousand Pittman, Nick (June 9, 2003). "Johnny Rebel 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 14, 2005). "Coe Revisits Penitentiary". Rolling Rock.
- ^ Strom, Phoebe (2014). "Defining Dixie: Creating and Deploying State Music's Mythic South – Written at Rhodes College" (PDF). Memphis, Tennessee: Rhodes College.
- ^ "What Is It? (2005)". IMDb.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Rebel_(singer)