Hank Jr.'s Censor-tive Subject

The magical glow of the cathode ray illuminates the dark room as Hank Jr. and Kid Rock crooned center stage during Hank’s Outlaw concert on CMT. Uncle Bubba smiles and turns up his surround sound and imagines he was hanging out with the other lucky fans in the audience. Heck, it ain't like a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert of the 70's, but their having a good time and it's pretty entertaining.

Bubbie’s view of country music has diminished over the past twenty years; raised on southern rock with a pension for country sound of the 60’s and 70’s, today’s brand is commercialized crap. Sadly the faithful fans of Hank Sr., Merle, Willie and Waylon, George Jones, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash and so on, they’re long gone. It was a different time, a slower more innocent time when loyalty to substance over style meant something. Talent came from the heart and the vocal chords and not from one’s appearance because music was played on the radio or record player. Music was listened to, and watching an entertainer meant seeing them live in concert, not watching a video.

Bubbie takes swig of his drink and notices a strange apparition on the TV—I mean aside from the Hank Jr. dancing. Do y’all know the Trucker Girl? She’s the chrome silhouette on the mud flaps of tractor trailers.
Hank has an enormous Trucker Girl hanging as a backdrop on the stage and CMT has fuzzed out the nipple area of her breast! Dude, it’s fake! It’s a chrome silhouette of a woman; that’s obscene and offensive? And what did CMT think they were getting when they booked the Outlaw concert. Bubbie shakes his head then as he straightens his ball cap and thinks about his $120 cable bill and wonders why he’s paying so much for censored entertainment.