Talk:Okie from Muskogee (song)

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Relocated material[edit]

The article on the album of the same name included information about the cover versions (including the famous "Asshole from El Paso" version) and other material that is more appropriate for the article on the song itself, so I have relocated this material per WP:BOLD. An earlier editor also used the unencyclopedic wording "as other posters have noted". This is not a forum, so I removed that statement. 68.146.52.234 (talk) 16:40, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Two things[edit]

First, I have a PDF scan of a newspaper article from 1980 announcing an upcoming Haggard show. It states that the first live performance took place at the NCO Club at Fort Bragg and that the hippies who proclaimed him "the new Woody Guthrie" turned on him once the song became popular. I couldn't find any place in the article where this information could fit. Unlike a lot of other editors, I don't believe in inserting anachronistic sentences or paragraphs simply to support particular sources, leaving the article harder to comprehend as a whole.

Second, I'm starting to question the value of adding to popular culture sections when so many editors out there are likely to delete the whole thing out of spite. It's been years and years since I read The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. I do remember one comic centered upon Fat Freddy returning to Cleveland to find his family. The misadventure begins with him walking into the first bar he sees and playing the song on the jukebox, hoping to impress the patrons, followed by them immediately throwing him out onto the street. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 00:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]