Culture & MediaAugust 16, 2013
Gene Autry: Radical Singing Cowboy?
OMG! Was Gene Autry, the “singing cowboy” on TV and in the movies, really a radical? I just discovered this Autry recording of the pro-labor song “The Death of Mother Jones,” about the great radical union organizer — Mary Harris Jones, sometimes called the “most dangerous woman in America” by her enemies — who died […]