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This is a song from the great and often unjustly overlooked Austin-based rocker James McMurtry about — he says as he says introducing this new song — “18th century feudalism and primogeniture and their combined effects on modern-day American redneck culture.” After playing to countless “rooms full of rednecks” in Texas and other Western states,Continue reading “Sons of the Second Son; or, origin of the redneck, by James McMurtry”