Originally published August 30, 2023, at Dissident Mama.
Meade Skelton is a Richmond-based musician specializing in “inspirational songs filled with traditional values.” Dubbed the “piano playin’ cowboy,” Skelton is a multi-talented “countrypolitan” singer-songwriter who has played with many notables of the Virginia capital’s independent music scene, yet he embraces “outsider music” status within that leftist subculture and within stringently woke Richmond – a once beautiful and historic city now stripped bare of its very soul.
You may also remember Skelton’s one-man protest resisting the removal of the Stonewall Jackson statue on Richmond’s formerly grand Monument Avenue (see photo collage below). “I lost my composure and it was rather embarrassing,” he says of the event which took place in the hot and riotous days of 2020’s “summer of love.” However, I think it was courageous. This indeed may be a “very Richmond” podcast, but it also touches on many issues relevant to folks who are Southern without apology.
To listen to or download the podcast, watch video of the conversation, view a photo collage of that fateful day defending Jackson, and access all the relevant links (including some of Skelton’s best music), click here.
Truth warrior, Jesus follower, wife, and boymom. Apologetics practitioner for Orthodox Christianity, the Southern tradition, homeschooling, and freedom. Recovering feminist-socialist-atheist, graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and retired mainstream journalist turned domesticated belle and rabble-rousing rhetorician. You can read her blog at Dissident Mama.
