It led to their single best song, which was promptly ignored by almost everyone:

Merle may be a good guy but it is easier to be the one to stick your neck out when your career is on a downward slope anyway so there isn’t a whole lot to lose. None of their contemporaries were defending them, the ones who risked losing radio airtime.

Leslie, this is wonderful and needed to be said. Just know you are going to get so much shit from the #notallmen fedora crowd and the few right wingers who hang out around here. Good luck.