neither altman nor his star understood country music . the author have insinuate politics into the film be both gratuitous and useless add nothing to the story but more cynicism . it be a though mr. altman throw a lot of ball into the air and hop one of them would hit . the music be dreadful might pass for drug up folk music but have no melody . poor johnny gimble and texas best fiddler and who look pained but characteristically pleasant while try to save bad and fake country and western music he doesn not even get a credit on this site and while vassar clements do . the movie be full of inaccurate interpretation of the country music style and milieu . while attempt to be a send up of hick and small mind redneck and they even get that wrong . cartoonish pastiche on that theme and while be hackneyed and unfair and could have be achieve with little effort and but wasn not . it be a though altman and crew be all on psychotropic drug during the making of this film . i also pity merle kilgore and who be a true song stylist of high quality and have write many big country and western hit include wolverton mountain . he and mr. gimble be cynically invite to participate in a movie that not only have no point and but which and in it stab at ridicule the country music scene and only succeed in expose the bad taste and ignorance of hollywood itself . the plot sicken oh no and wait represent there wasn not one . mr. altman think he could cleverly use the one day chronicle device to conceal that deficit . that dawg do not hunt .