{"id":15313,"date":"2015-09-16T00:54:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T22:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=15313"},"modified":"2015-09-16T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T08:38:50","slug":"angaleena-presley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2015\/09\/angaleena-presley\/","title":{"rendered":"Angaleena Presley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-0bVxf-1nRHI\/VLY8YGzjgNI\/AAAAAAAANow\/MLX-7fQ5K1k\/s1600\/presley15.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>She&#8217;s smooth as the gravel on a roadside creek bank \/ Sweet as the flower on a knotty pine casket \/ She&#8217;s hot as the fire on the end of a cigarette \/ Rich as a church&#8217;s Wednesday night basket \/ And there ain&#8217;t no man who can get his head around it \/ She\u2019s sharp as the blade of a mountain man&#8217;s knife \/ Sour as an apple in a homemade pie \/ Mean as a snake in a small town zoo \/ Ain&#8217;t nobody that could ever get to her heart.\u2019 Wie ook maar iets wil weten over <strong>American Middle Class<\/strong> (Slate Creek Records\/Thirty Tigers\/Bertus) dient dit formidabele <!--more-->album van Angaleena Presley aan te schaffen. Presley zingt over haar leven in Kentucky. Het gaat over hemel en hel. Het gaat over de klanten van de supermarkt die zich vergapen aan de filmsterren uit de tijdschriften. Het gaat over verslaafde dochters die tippelen. Het gaat over moeders die bidden dat ze dat niet doen. Het gaat over armen die keihard moeten werken om bij de middenklasse te behoren. Het gaat over pillen tegen de pijn. Het gaat over eenzaamheid en verloren dagen. Het gaat over alleenstaande moeders die de familie te schande brengen. Het gaat over meisjes die dromen van een goede toekomst en dus naar school willen, maar die moeten opboksen tegen vaders die daar geen oog voor hebben, omdat ze slechts interesse tonen in de Chevy, de front porch en de televisie. Het gaat over moeders die de boodschappen in huis halen, terwijl de vader dronken is. Het gaat over ontsnappen aan het dagelijkse leven, totdat je achterom kijkt en beseft wat je kwijt bent geraakt. Het gaat over keihard vallen en de durf om een toegestoken hand vast te pakken. Onverbloemd is de taal van Angaleena Presley, tevens lid van het succesvolle trio Pistol Annies. <em>American Middle Class<\/em> begint met <em>Ain\u2019t No Man<\/em>, waarin ze net als veel countryzangeressen in de jaren zestig duidelijk maakt dat het niet meevalt om je als vrouw staande te houden in deze mannenwereld. \u2018She&#8217;s bright as the moon on a hungover morning \/ Clean as the mouth on a welfare baby \/ She&#8217;s slick as the leather on a cowgirl&#8217;s holster \/ She\u2019s pure as the water in a golf course pond \/ Safe as a tiger with a fifty dollar bond \/ Deep as the sole of a worn-out shoe \/ Ain&#8217;t nobody that could fall into her arms \/ Proud as a loser in a locker room \/ Sober as a drink of homemade wine \/ Sturdy as a trailer in a hurricane \/ Sweet as the smell of turpentine \/ She&#8217;s real as a movie with a happy ending \/ Fickle as a bulb on a dashboard light \/ Pretty as snow on Easter Sunday \/ Silly as a girl who can&#8217;t make up her mind \/ And there ain&#8217;t no man who can look her in the eye \/ She&#8217;s sad as a smile on a birthday clown \/ Busy as a saddle in a one-horse town \/ Straight as a picture on a blind man&#8217;s wall \/ Ain&#8217;t nobody that could make her fall apart.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018She&#8217;s smooth as the gravel on a roadside creek bank \/ Sweet as the flower on a knotty pine casket \/ She&#8217;s hot as the fire on the end of a cigarette \/ Rich as a church&#8217;s Wednesday night basket \/ And there ain&#8217;t no man who can get his head around it \/ She\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recensies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15317,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions\/15317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}