Classic Or Dud: Josh Turner's "White Noise"

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"White Noise"

Grand Old Opry music show playin' on my radio
Fiddle and a steel guitar in some little redneck bar
Parkin' lot full of four wheel drives
You won't hear no hip hop jive
Cowgirls lookin' for cowboys
Two-step to that ol' white noise

I'm talkin' 'bout white noise comin' from the white boys
I can't keep my cowboy boots from stompin'
To that white noise comin' from the white boys
Take me where those honky's are a-tonkin'

When the evenin' sun goes down cruisin' through our little town
Country girls and country boys showin' off hillbilly toys

Talkin' 'bout white noise comin' from the white boys
I can't keep my cowboy boots from stompin'
To that white noise comin' from the white boys
Take me where those honky's are a-tonkin'

[Instrumental]

Tractor pulls and rodeos, county fairs and bluegrass shows
It ain't a thing 'bout black and white
It's Johnny Cash and Charley Pride

It what I call white noise comin' from the real mccoys
I can't keep my cowboy boots from stompin'
To that white noise comin' from the real mccoys
Take me where those honky's are a-tonkin'
Take me where those honky's are a-tonkin'
And take me where those honky's are a-tonkin'

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

"It ain't a thing 'bout black and white"

Sure sounds like it!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

k. sanneh touches on it today:

The song most likely to cause a stir is "White Noise," an infectious, sing-along country anthem that must make Mr. Turner's record company nervous: it flirts overtly with white pride. The song, a duet with the country veteran John Anderson (who once famously sang, oddly enough, about being "the black sheep of the family"), pays loving tribute to an old-fashioned "redneck bar": a place, Mr. Anderson sings, where "you won't hear no hip-hop jive." In the chorus, the two pay tribute to the boot-stomping music they love: "That white noise/ Coming from the white boys/ Take me where those honkies are a-tonkin'."

Near the end, they hedge their bets, announcing, "It ain't a thing 'bout black and white/ It's Johnny Cash and Charlie Pride." In the chorus that follows, "white boys" is changed to "real McCoys." Perhaps without meaning to, Mr. Turner and Mr. Anderson have upended an old notion about race and authenticity: the song suggests that black singers, if they're real enough and soulful enough, can be honorary "honkies."

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

skot is presannehient

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:46 (twenty years ago)

me and kelefa are like psychic twinz. i didn't buy the paper today, it was raining too hard to go out. and the kidz are sick. but somehow i just KNEW he was grappling with white noize.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:03 (twenty years ago)

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― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:12 (twenty years ago)

speakin of white noise
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― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

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