THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Spencer Neale) - The Tender Mercy of Robert Duvall
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Culture The Tender Mercy of Robert Duvall From Mac Sledge to Col. Kilgore, Duvall’s characters embodied the soul of our nation. Back in the old America, where country music still mattered and real men donned decent blue jeans and 10-gallon hats and sang until their hearts turned blue, Robert Duvall crooned beneath the heavens in front of a 40-foot wide Lonestar State Flag. In a dusty, dim Texas bar, couples held hands and swayed slowly as Mac Sledge, a washed-up country singer portrayed by Duvall in Bruce Beresford’s incredible 1983 film, Tender Mercies, sang the beautiful medley “If You’ll Hold The Ladder (I’ll Climb To…Open