{"id":808071,"date":"2020-06-04T05:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T11:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1009891"},"modified":"2020-06-04T05:54:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T11:54:57","slug":"neil-young-drops-2019-live-version-of-southern-man-calls-for-new-rules-for-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/neil-young-drops-2019-live-version-of-southern-man-calls-for-new-rules-for-policing\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Drops 2019 Live Version of \u2018Southern Man,\u2019 Calls for \u2018New Rules for Policing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neil Young<\/a>\u2019s \u201cSouthern Man\u201d came out in 1970 (via After the Gold Rush<\/em>), but the singer-songwriter thinks it\u2019s just as relevant today \u2014 with one caveat. He\u2019s not just singing about the South anymore \u2014 but the whole country.<\/p>\n

Young posted a 2019 performance of the song on his Archives Wednesday, writing<\/a>: \u201cHere\u2019s me as an old guy singin\u2019 his 50-year-old song that was written after countless years of racism in the USA. And look at us today! This has been going on for way too long. It\u2019s not just \u2018Southern Man\u2019 now. It\u2019s everywhere across the USA. It\u2019s time for real change, new laws, new rules for policing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young, of course, is referring to mass protests against police brutality spreading across the nation and world in response to the police killing of George Floyd.<\/p>\n

The lyrics of \u201cSouthern Man\u201d draw heavily on the years of slavery in the U.S. \u2014 specifically in the South. It\u2019s far from Young\u2019s only politically driven track; Crosby, Stills Nash and Young\u2019s \u201cOhio\u201d recently turned 50<\/a>. That song dealt with the Kent State Massacre, during which the Ohio National Guard shot at students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like Trump today, treating things like a WWF smackdown,\u201d Devo\u2019s Gerald Casale told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> of the clash between students and law enforcement. \u201cIt was Governor Rhodes, unbeknownst to us, who conspired with the dean at Kent State University to house the National Guard in buildings on Sunday night so they\u2019d be ready to pounce at the protest that everyone knew was coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young is an ardent critic of President Donald Trump. After becoming an American citizen earlier this year<\/a> \u2014 and registering to vote \u2014 he came out in support of Bernie Sanders for president. \u201cStand for the workers, stand for the teachers, stand for the students, stand up for Climate Justice. Stand for higher taxes on the super-rich to pay for all love the above! Stand for the American Future. Stand with Bernie Sanders,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n

Young\u2019s long-awaited Seventies album, Homegrown<\/em>, is expected to drop on June 19.<\/p>\n

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Neil Young\u2019s \u201cSouthern Man\u201d came out in 1970 (via After the Gold Rush), but the singer-songwriter thinks it\u2019s just as relevant today \u2014 with one caveat. He\u2019s not just singing about the South anymore \u2014 but the whole country. Young posted a 2019 performance of the song on his Archives Wednesday, writing: \u201cHere\u2019s me as […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-808071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 09:50:39","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}