{"id":1301451,"date":"2018-12-12T09:09:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T16:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1801670"},"modified":"2018-12-12T09:09:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T16:09:12","slug":"wheeler-walker-jr-talks-feminism-and-fatherhood-on-ww-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/wheeler-walker-jr-talks-feminism-and-fatherhood-on-ww-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheeler Walker, Jr. Talks Feminism and Fatherhood on WW III"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> 12\/12\/2018<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

When Wheeler Walker, Jr. goes to see family in Kentucky for Christmas, he doesn\u2019t plan on performing music from his latest album WW III<\/em>. It\u2019s not family-friendly or holiday-approved.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of work to keep [my music] out of kids\u2019 hands,\u201d he tells CMT.com. \u201cEverything has parental warning stickers on it. This music is for adults.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t advertise in places where kids can see it. I was actually home for Thanksgiving, and I had my guitar with me, and my nieces and nephews asked, \u2018Uncle Wheeler, can you play us a song?\u2019 And my niece goes, \u2018Never mind. He can\u2019t because all his songs are dirty.\u2019 She\u2019s six, and they know. They know they can\u2019t listen to it. It\u2019s not for them. They know not to Google it, which is scary that kids have access to computers. I would have never left my room growing up if you had given me a laptop.\u201d<\/p>\n

WW III<\/em> does reflect his current place in life. He\u2019s a father now, giving his brand of hardcore country a new tenderness that wasn\u2019t there on previous releases. The collection offers hilarious songs about bromance, making love, fatherhood and commitment.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy whole thing was just singing about the truth,\u201d he says. \u201cI started thinking my fans love what I do. So, I started thinking about my real life, and having a significant other and a son is not something my fans would be like, \u2018What a sellout,\u2019 because they all either have that, or they want it. It\u2019s something in their lives. The more I think about my real life, the more they\u2019re going to be into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Walker understands his music might be scrutinized in today\u2019s post #MeToo world, he doesn\u2019t appreciate it when people think his material is anti-women. He says he is a feminist, and he believes one can be a feminist and still enjoy his music. He also claims that bro-country songs on today\u2019s country radio can be more misogynistic than any of his originals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anyone is getting any anti-women sentiments from my songs then they\u2019re listening to different ones I\u2019m listening to because I don\u2019t hear, \u2018Get your [woman] and go back in the kitchen.\u2019 I hear misogyny in a lot of country music, but I don\u2019t hear it in my music. I hear a guy talking real.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe definition of feminism is treating everyone equally,\u201d he adds. \u201cI personally am a feminist, and it gets me upset when people don\u2019t hear the love and respect for women in my songs. I don\u2019t know if there is anyone out there in country music who works with more women than I do. Again, that doesn\u2019t make you a feminist. But I\u2019m always open to who\u2019s the best guitar player? Who\u2019s the best bass player? My last bass player was a woman, and she was one of the best I\u2019ve seen. She went on to work with a bigger artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Walker brought his tour to Nashville\u2019s Cannery Ballroom, there was an equal representation of women to men in the audience. Onstage, Jaime Wyatt opened and Nashville guitarist, Ellen Angelico, backed him. Additionally, Angelico is one of the staunchest advocates for women in the Nashville music community having helped organize the annual She\u2019s a Rebel benefit for the Southern Girls Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll<\/a> camp, a music education program for girls and gender non-conforming youth ages 10-17.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen more women at the shows,\u201d Walker says. \u201cWithin the last year, I\u2019ve seen it really go up as people understand more of what I\u2019m doing. Some of the early songs were a little too crazy, but I don\u2019t know. I think as I\u2019ve gotten older and more mature it becomes more of something they\u2019re kind of into.\u201d<\/p>\n

What keeps Walker in it is to keep making real country that\u2019s timeless. His third album to be produced by Dave Cobb, WW III<\/em> embodies the musical integrity of the classics like Waylon Jennings\u2019 Honky Tonk Heroes<\/em> and the attitude of Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think where me and country music really but heads is adapting to the times. The country music from the \u201870s still sounds perfect to me. Things should change lyrically not musically because you can listen to a Waylon album from the \u201870s, which we just did the other day, Honky Tonk Heroes<\/em> could have been recorded yesterday. It\u2019s timeless.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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by Lauren Tingle 12\/12\/2018 When Wheeler Walker, Jr. goes to see family in Kentucky for Christmas, he doesn\u2019t plan on performing music from his latest album WW III. It\u2019s not family-friendly or holiday-approved. \u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of work to keep [my music] out of kids\u2019 hands,\u201d he tells CMT.com. \u201cEverything has parental warning stickers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 04:17:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}