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\n\t\u201cNot today, Satan\u201d\u2026 or \u201cHell yeah, Beelzebub\u201d? <\/p>\n

\n\tA split is taking place in the polarizing realm of devil-rock, as practiced by self-styled \u201cSatanic\u201d duo Twin Temple. On Friday, country singer Charley Crockett took to social media to defend his decision to drop the act from his tour dates \u2014 even as Jack White piped up to offer them a high-profile spot on one of his shows.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhite took to Instagram Friday to make an offer: \u201cTwin Temple, would you like to open my show in L.A. on September 29th at the Hollywood Palladium? Let me know. Get in front of me Satan!\u201d (That quip was a whimsical twist on the White Stripes\u2019 2005 album title \u201cGet Behind Me Satan,\u201d which was an interpolation of Matthew 16:23.)<\/p>\n

\n\tTwin Temple quickly and enthusiastically responded to the offer. \u201cUnholy hell\u2026. Sir Jack, you have no idea what this means to us,\u201d they responded in his comments. \u201cLifelong fans \u2014 \u2018Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground\u2019 was one of the first songs I (Alex) ever learned on guitar. We were actually planning on coming to this show. It would be a most infernal pleasure to play the devil\u2019s music with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOthers joined in with shows of support, apparently unafraid of getting caught up in spiritual warfare. \u201cViva Anton LaVey!\u201d wrote singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis, of Rilo Kiley fame, referring to the late founder of the Church of Satan, in her support of the act that performs seemingly tongue-in-cheek anthems like \u201cLucifer, My Love\u201d and \u201cLet\u2019s Have a Satanic Orgy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Crockett, the acclaimed country indie-traditionalist, was not backing down after having made the call to dump the duo from opening his shows. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI won\u2019t conform and I\u2019m not sorry,\u201d Crockett wrote in the caption to what his currently his lone photo on Instagram. \u201cThere are many things I\u2019ve done in my life to apologize for but this ain\u2019t one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCrockett\u2019s lengthy message didn\u2019t go too narrowly into the subject of dropping Twin Temple from his bill, while he did address opening acts in general, along with spiritual power and \u201cshameless exhjibitionists possessed by the desire to be famous and have the public\u2019s adoration.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWrote Crockett: \u201cI might wake up at 1 p.m. on the back of that bus and find out that the opener ain\u2019t working for me that night. Tough luck. Life is hard. This ain\u2019t no temp agency. Get to stepping. Shit you might get you a life changing gig just by standing next to me. That\u2019s magic. I\u2019m not gonna advertise my charity out here because as soon as you do, it ain\u2019t nothing but self promotion,\u201d he said, in what could have been taken as a response to White publicly announcing his invitation to Twin Temple. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe got more philosophical from there. \u201cI\u2019m not on the left. I\u2019m not on the right,\u201d Crockett wrote. \u201cI\u2019m on the road, and that\u2019s a hard way to go. Believe me, the pace would kill you, bronc. I don\u2019t give a damn whether you think I\u2019m right or wrong. They say love your struggle. I say love the strength the creator gave you to overcome your struggle. Don\u2019t believe in any kind of spiritual power? I\u2019m sorry to hear that. God is the fabric that ties all life together. No need to even define or institutionalize it. The entertainment business is chock full of shameless exhibitionists possessed by the desire to be famous and have the public\u2019s adoration. I swear they\u2019d kill a relative. I see them everywhere. Been betrayed by many. Always stricken by the crack smoke and just dying to get ahead. I love what I do and I\u2019m grateful for the privilege every minute, and if everybody disappears I\u2019ll go back to the street corner where I started. Hell, sometimes I dream about it. Shout out to Angel in New Orleans who told me that if you wanna get high boy you got to start down low. I\u2019ve found that about the only help you get out here in this business is when they lower the box.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tReaction in his comments was mixed, with some supporting Crockett\u2019s \u201cbackbone\u201d and others saying he was hurting himself by belaboring the subject. Some expressed mixed loyalty, as Crockett and White have a good amount of overlap between their respective fandoms. Many just wondered how an act like Twin Temple could have gotten booked for Crockett dates in the first place, and whether it was his responsibility to just grimace and bear it, or not, after they were.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwin Temple, a husband-wife duo formed by singer Alexandra James and guitarist Zachary James, broke the news on their social media Thursday, writing, \u201cToday we were informed that Charley Crockett has decided to remove Twin Temple from his upcoming shows next week due to our Satanic imagery,. Unfortunately, that means we will not be able to perform for you next week as planned. We are really disappointed as we were looking forward to getting back out and seeing you, and also what it means as far as bringing different types of people and music lovers together. \u2026 We\u2019re grateful for your support, not only of Twin Temple, but more importantly of artistic freedom. HAIL SATAN!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCrockett seemed taken aback by the pro-Satan nature of the act, which, however humorously intended, invokes classic totems like pentagrams on stage \u2014 a routine likely to go over better when they open for Danzig, as they will be in September, than with a crowd full of fans of traditional country. \u201cI thought they were like Black Sabbath, but they ain\u2019t. Not today, Satan,\u201d Crockett wrote in a statement to Rolling Stone Thursday. Later, in a since-deleted Instagram post, he added, \u201cFuck Trump. Fuck Epstein. But hail Satan? Not me Jack.\u201d<\/p>\n

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