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From RollingStone.com:
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Democratic rocker, Republican country singer harmonize for tolerance

Democrat John Mellencamp and Republican Travis Tritt stood on a Nashville street corner Monday to make a bi-partisan plea for political civility.

The rock star and country singer were filming the video for their current duet, "What Say You," from Tritt's CD My Honky Tonk History. The two star as street musicians standing in front of a fictional Ruby's Cafe, and the Chris Lenz-directed video will be interspersed with montages of Middle America. The video will be released in the coming weeks, and Mellencamp and Tritt plan to perform together on a number of television shows.

"It's a very positive message," Mellencamp says of the single, penned by songwriters Frank Myers and Michael Bradford. "It's that we should be able to say what is on our minds and have an intelligent exchange of opinion -- whether you're left, right, middle or whatever -- without suffering repercussions. For some reason, in this country right now, that's not happening. If you don't believe one way, you are 'anti-American,' you're 'not supporting the troops.' I just think it's wrong."

The song, based on a phrase used by conservative talk show host Bill O'Reilly, features the lyrics, "I don't have all the answers/But I share my point of view/What say you?"

Tritt, who recently played an event during the Republican National Convention, had several reasons for working with Mellencamp, a participant in the anti-Bush Vote for Change tour. "I've admired his music for so many years," Tritt says. "I also admire his integrity. Very much like me, he has resisted all outside pressures to change his music or let anybody tell him what his music should be. And the fact that I thought our voices would work well together even though we have different political viewpoints really illustrates what this song is about."

BEVERLY KEEL
(Posted Sep 14, 2004)

That's pretty ironic. Mellencamp is one of the worst offenders.

For him to ask for "political civility" is a little like Rosie O'Donell telling you you could stand to lose a couple of pounds.

Mellencamp was one of the headlining performers at the Kerry concert at Radio City Music Hall that was so vitriolic and so nasty that Kerry's people won't even release the video to news organizations.

Why doesn't he put his money where his big mouth is and start by denouncing what went on there?

By the way, just for the record: even though I don't like his politics or his hypocrisy, I am a big fan of his music.

I've been a huge travis tritt fan for years, but for some reason this album does little for me . . . but i really respect Travis' sincerity, and it just shocked me to see him get involved openly with politics, but im glad he's being very fair about it, and having mellencamp there by his side makes it balanced .. . travis is very personable, and his shows are very high energy and lots of talking and story telling, top quality stuff . . .but this album is sub-par for me, its nothing like down the road i go, that was an excellent album

hmm John Mellencamp and Travis Tritt just sounds like an odd combo to me.