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Why not in jazz, R&B, blues or general pop music? Although you’d never know it from listening to the music, poor white rural Americans were not the only ones who suffered, worked hard and died. But they are the ones who sang about it more than anyone else. It’s often been said that the difference between tragedy and comedy is whether the ‘shit’ in question happens to you or someone else. You don’t have to be a certified psychologist to see that when almost everything around you is going to hell, as it was for most Americans during the Civil War, World War I and the aptly named Great Depression, then ‘Misery Loves Company’ will be a sizeable hunk of the entertainment business. Other than some purely escapist fare, it’s a safe bet that he with the most misery will have a song written or a movie made about him. Most people don’t want to hear stories about rich people unless their homes are on fire or their children have been trapped in a bank vault. 7 Hal ‘Lone’ Pine & Betty Cody PREVIEW