Some time ago I noted Clinton Taylor of The American Spectator who created a list of country music songs he thought were politically conservative. John Miller at the National Review has done the same, this time compiling 50 rock and roll songs with a conservative flavor.
For conservatives who enjoy rock, it isn’t hard to agree with the opinion Johnny Cash expressed in “The One on the Right Is on the Left”: “Don’t go mixin’ politics with the folk songs of our land / Just work on harmony and diction / Play your banjo well / And if you have political convictions, keep them to yourself.” In other words: Shut up and sing.
But some rock songs really are conservative — and there are more of them than you might think.
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