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Jim Goad explains why he enjoys trucker music in an interview with Jaime Suicide: I love the trucker voice: I'm a macho son of a gun. It's trucker music that got me into white-trash culture or just renewed an appreciation for it. Back in '93, '94 a friend, Phil Irwin, who played bass on my Big Red Goad album, started sending me all of this trucker music that I had never heard before.
I had been listening to hip-hop up until that point. It was so similar because the bass was just booming. It was all about dick sizemy truck is forty foot long and I haul twenty tons. It was almost like rappers, these truckers were bragging like rappers. Booming, macho, but they were white people. They were macho white guys. When in the hell has that appeared in music recently that hasn't been over-the-top hate music? Macho white guys who weren't ashamed of being macho white guys. I was down with that. The Redneck Manifesto was originally going to be a one-shot zine called Truckstud. It was an homage to white-trash culture. And the main essay, White Niggers Have Feelings, Too, I gave to a black friend, a writer friend named Darius James, and he said,"You need to turn this into a book." So, yeah, a black guy was responsible for The Redneck Manifesto. He sounds like Richard Pryor imitating white people: "You're quite hostile."
See the full interview here
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