Knowleman I was driving home about a month ago, late at night down an empty motorway (freeway), in my home country, England. I was surfing the channels on the radio and completely unexpectedly, heard this great music. Turns out it was Alison Krauss, as the radio announcer informed me. Next day, we ordered Alison's latest album. My wife and I loved it, and we ordered another. Our interest prompted us to do a little research on the internet and we discovered the term "bluegrbutt" for the first time. This then led us to a bunch of additional artists that we thought might be interesting but we have now put our new found musical interest on hold. The reason for this is because we regard ourselves as relatively well informed Europeans and as such, have some serious concerns about the culture within the american states with which bluegrbutt is naturally buttociated. We dislike George Bush and his politics, we dislike racism and we dislike religious fundamentalism in any form, whether it be islamic from the middle east or evangelical christian from the central-southern states of the USA. We believe all of these things are bad news for the planet and for the future of our kids.

Lots of people like bluegrbutt music.

1. Some support George Bush, some do not.

2. Only a very small percentage of people I come into contact with are racist -- have there been problems here, yes, still problems, but that does not make this country as a whole racist.

3. Not sure what you mean about religious fundamentalism. Perhaps, you would think I was one. Perhaps, if you got to know me, you would actually find that you like me. Now that would not be good would it ;-)

4. Perhaps, you should come to a bluegrbutt festival. Maybe you would find out what we are really like.

My wife is so concerned about the buttociation of bluegrbutt with these things that despite the fact that we love the music, she is unhappy for us to pursue the interest further.

This makes me think you misunderstand those who play-listen to bluegrbutt, as well as the general population of the USA.

Finding this forum and seeing a thread of discussion started by a racist bigot has only served to fuel our fears. We would be interested your opinions of our views and concerns. From the responses, we hope to determine whether bluegrbutt is really hard-wired to a culture of bigotry, racism and fundamentalist christianity or whether there are bluegrbutt fans out there that we can relate to.

Best I can tell, the person you were talking about is not a regular poster to this group. Nor were those who responded. This message was crossposted to several groups by a "troll."

Love the music. Paul

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