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Clifford Joseph Trahan (born October 3, 1938), best known as Johnny Rebel and also as Pee Wee Trahan, is a Cajun country musician. Trahan used the Johnny Rebel name most notably on anti-black recordings issued in the 1960s on J. D. "Jay" Miller's Reb Rebel label of Crowley, Louisiana.〔Shane K. Bernard, ''The Cajuns: Americanization of a People''. Jackson, Miss: University Press of Mississippi, 2003, p. 63f.〕〔John Broven, ''South to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous''. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1983, p. 252f. ISBN 0-88289-608-3.〕 ==Career== His songs frequently use the word ''nigger'' and often voice sympathy for Jim Crow-era segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. Trahan first recorded under the Johnny Rebel name in the mid-1960s. He employed J. D. "Jay" Miller's recording studio in Crowley, Louisiana. Miller, in fact, produced the sessions and issued the recordings on his own Reb Rebel label.〔 Trahan's first release—the fifth for the Reb Rebel label—was a 45 RPM single of "Lookin' for a Handout" and "Kajun Ku Klux Klan". He would record many more singles for the label, "Nigger, Nigger", "In Coon Town", "Who Likes a Nigger?", "Nigger Hatin' Me", "Still Looking for a Handout", "Some Niggers Never Die (They Just Smell That Way)", "Stay Away from Dixie", and "Move Them Niggers North."〔 Only two of Trahan's songs are not strictly about race: "Keep a-Workin' Big Jim" is the efforts of Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison to solve the Kennedy assassination, while "(Federal Aid Hell!) The Money Belongs to Us" is a song critical of U.S. federal aid programs.〔Nick Pittman, , in: ''Times of Acadiana'', Lafayette, Louisiana, ca. 2000.〕 In 1976, Trahan's song "Lâche pas la patate" (also known as "The Potato Song"), sung by Jimmy C. Newman earned gold record status in Canada. Two of these songs were eventually issued in album format by Reb Rebel Records under the title "For Segregationists Only".〔 Johnny Rebel's songs have been covered by other singers such as Big Reb and the German band Landser. In 2005, his song "Some Niggers Never Die (They Just Smell That Way)" was used in the film ''What Is It?'' directed by Crispin Glover. A CD compilation of his works simply shows a hooded Klansman together with a depiction of the Confederate Battle Flag. The cover of the album "It's the attitude stupid" shows a hooded Klansman, holding what appears to be either a Walkman or MP3 player, and wearing headphones. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johnny Rebel (singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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