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Bearing the eponymous name of his band,he had no chance of industry recognition. He'd deliberately packed it full of concepts and ideas he says were"beyond the pale."
Flash forward to 2014, when North Carolina record label Paradise of Bachelors finds his music on YouTube, then reissues it — to widespread critical acclaim. He's touring now more than ever, sharing stages around the U.S. with queer country and Americana acts like Paisley Fields and Secret Emchy Society. A few months back, he played a surprise set at masked crooner Orville Peck's show in Seattle.
He describes the change through the Marxist concept of dialect:"It's when something turns into its opposite. It's a recurrent theme about how to make revolution. The lowly working class ends up ruling the world; it turns into its opposite. Because I'm a Marxist, I look at things dialectically because it's part of understanding how revolution functions. And dialectically, my song, 'Cryin' These Cocksucking Tears,' turned into its opposite.
Later in life, though, Haggerty endured the inevitable repercussions; in the late '60s, he was booted from the Peace Corps."It's my crowning glory," he laughs."I have another first before— the first person to be kicked out of the American Peace Corps for being gay." Though Haggerty recalls this with humor, he notes that it was"a very traumatic experience." Politically, it transformed him.
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