Reclaiming Our Artistic Past: An Interview with Nationalist Folk Singer Paddy Tarleton

Tharru Larbi
Daily Stormer
June 17, 2016

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I recently came across a local musician who had been in the news recently over his ‘controversial’ political views and the lyrical content of his music. After giving his name a search and finding some of his music I decided to give it a listen for obvious reasons. What I heard was not only pleasing to my ears from a musical perspective but outrageously funny. Not only that I immediately recognized in Mr. Tarleton’s music a void being filled which the alt right, and the larger White Nationalist movement, suffers from – a lack of artistic creativity as a means to push back our dispossession and the rich cultural history which has been either stolen from us or outright derided.

After sharing his music with some friends in the various alt right circles I’m a part of I decided based on their positive reaction that I’d reach out and extend an invitation to Mr. Tarleton informing him I’d like to do an interview with him about his music, the general fight we’re embroiled in currently, and how he see’s his work in the context of our movement to reclaim our heritage and assert ourselves without need for any other group’s approval.

Below is the interview and Mr. Tarleton’s response to my questions. You can find a link to his work at the end of the interview embedded in a picture of his album cover Diversity is Our Strength. 

Why don’t you start out by giving a brief overview of how you ended up in the traditionalist party and tell us a little about yourself.

I reckon you could say I was “redpilled” in my mid-twenties. I was, like a lot of people in my generation, your run-of-the-mill left-libertarian-type while in university, but I dropped out because at the time I found music and art to be more important. After a few life-changing experiences, my views started to change. I’d met Matt Heimbach around autumn of 2102 when he hosted Jared Taylor at Towson, whom I greatly admired. After Vice did that documentary on us, I continued to do work with Matt, and, in the summer of 2015, I formed a Mid-Atlantic chapter of the Traditionalist Worker Party.

What are some artists and authors you feel have influenced you the most both in your early years and as an adult?

God, too many to list. As far as artists/musicians go, A.L. Lloyd, Ronnie Drew, Ewan MacColl, Margaret Barry, Almeda Riddle. Lots of folk and traditional music from all over the Anglosphere, particularly the British Isles. I grew up hearing a lot of traditional American country music as well as traditional Celtic folk music. It was just something I heard a lot but never learned to appreciate until I was in my late teens. I remember thinking Ronnie Drew’s voice sounded dreadful to me as a five-year-old, but I grew to love it the older I became. As far as authors go, there are so many. My all-time-favourite book is Churchill’s “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples”, which, in my opinion, should be required reading for everyone in the Anglosphere. I love historical accounts and old diaries. As a kid I loved James Boswell’s diary and tons of eighteenth century military campaign books like British Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton’s southern campaigns. My personal library consists of mostly historical works, diaries, essays, etc. so, naturally, Arthur DeGobineau’s “The Inequality of Human Races” was probably the first book that really helped me to articulate what I felt around my mid to late twenties, when my worldview really started to form. From there I was turned onto to William Pierce, Jared Taylor, and a whole slew of incredible works by extraordinary authors.

When you set out to write lyrics or compose your music what are somethings you do yourself to try and spark your creative talents?

Writing lyrics can be a hellish task. Melodies come natural, but I’ve always kept song books with bits of lines here and there that I’ve written over the years and continue to write in, so I will sometimes take lines from that and sort of adapt and alter them according to a melody stirring in my head. Getting inspired isn’t difficult. How could it be? There’s so much filth to be utterly revolted by in the current era we’re living in.

What do you think are the most prominent issues facing American – and to a larger degree European White – society currently?

We’ve entered a point in the historical timeline of our people that we have not seen in a very long time, and, in some ways, have never seen. Right now the biggest issue is solidarity with other ethnic European peoples whilst still focusing on national/tribal sovereignty. But racial consciousness alone won’t save us, that’s only the beginning. We need to recognise tribe in addition to race and nation. We are an English-speaking European people, a people of the Anglosphere, and this is something that exists whether we choose to acknowledge this or not; it is very real. Race, tribe, and nation. And, of course, “nation” doesn’t always have to mean nation-state.

Do you think society is in a ‘lull’ right now when it comes to artistic creativity that can give Whites something to be proud of? 

Society isn’t in a lull, civilisation is, namely our own hemisphere’s. But all art reflects the collective consciousness of any people. In regards to our own, it’s been sick since before most of us were born. Our countries have been bought and sold and an overwhelming number of our people are brainwashed. Of course, I’m preaching to the choir here. I don’t want this to sound like sugared rhetoric or anything. It’s a culture war, for now. But that’s why it is crucial we continue to reach for a higher ideal, an old ideal, and, at the risk of sounding overly romantic, one that is innate within our people and makes us distinct from other peoples of the world. We have our flaws, as any, but our virtues are enormous, and our history shows this. We’re being shamed on a level that no people has ever seen, because it seeks to not only breed us out of existence, but to dupe us into saying, “thanks for the privilege”. The more European peoples wise up and make the right decision to speak out about this, without being afraid and without apologising for it, and, at the same time bringing all of those ideals back to the consciousness of their peers and children, the more triumphs we will see. We can do this, of course, so our art and our songs have to reflect this.

You were recently the subject of a local controversy regarding your views and your music. How do incidents like these affect you personally and how do you think this affects those who witness these kinds of incidents in the context of larger society and those who think intellectual and artistic creativity should be an area of society with more or less restrictions regarding the bounds of acceptable curiosities.

Well, it certainly lets you know who your real friends and family are. As far as affecting me personally, I mean, sure, if it’s from family, yeah, that can hurt. But it’s not about me. It isn’t even about them. It’s about all of our families. This must sound pretentious and corny in text but believe me, I’m not trying to come off that way. This is one of the most selfless things anyone can do. After all, as far as our parents’ generation go, most of them didn’t do a bleeding thing. They ran from their cities and left them to hordes of people who despise us, who in turn then blamed us (as usual) for destruction and poverty (that they created) and its their own children and grandchildren who continue to suffer. They told us to go along with the status quo, even though they themselves didn’t agree with it. Their grandparents’ generation and all those who came before never would have done that. They would have fought for and defended everything they inherited and worked for, because that is what normal, sane, and healthy people do. As far as that local media controversy goes, I have a policy for myself – I do NOT talk to ANY mainstream media source. Ever. And neither should you.

They do not deserve your time or your intellect and the only reason they want it is to virtue signal to others, namely non-whites, for the simple reason that they, deep down, are as skeptical as the rest of us but are too afraid and racked with guilt to admit it or consciously realise it, so they seek to moral posture in hopes that they’ll think they’re “one of the good ones”. Please, if you can do anything for this movement, harness all ego, if you can, and reject speaking to mainstream media. I wish all nationalists would follow this, but I can’t force anyone to do that. Anyone in this movement knows full well what their sole intentions are and how powerful their influence is in getting the masses to think a certain way. I gave that filthy degenerate newspaper no comment and therefore no further ammunition, and that irritated them to the core.

The proof is in the some of the commentary on all social media who shared the article. Of course, its working out quite well. Anyway, those people, especially the article’s author, are of the same ilk of those who enjoy reading it. They are very vapid, boring, and uninteresting people with few morals and no integrity. They want comfort and stability and to loosely quote Pierce, “to Hell with everyone else.” They’re cowards, essentially, and because they’ve never produced or created anything of real substance or value, they’re realms beyond bored, so they subconsciously reach for the next best thing that gives them a fix, and a cheapened one at that. We live in an age where most of our women do not have children, so they worship ridiculous things like their cats or unfortunate scraps from the Third World more than they would their own neighbour who looks like them and is cut from the same cultural cloth as they are, then have the stunning audacity to call us “hateful”. They are lost, of course. We’re the normal ones. But they’re the masses, and they keep the media machines rolling. For now.

What has been the impact of this controversy on your personal life and that of your family and friends? Have you seen an increase of support from either or both or a decrease? (Feel free to not answer this if you wish. I know it’s a personal question and I don’t want you to feel obligated to answer if you’re uncomfortable).

I’m totally comfortable with answering this question. I’m always comfortable and open with like minds, as anyone should be, so thank you for asking. Well, they, like the egocentric imbeciles they are, gave me more promotion than I ever gained in such a short amount of time. I won’t lie, at first I was a little nervous as to how it would pan out, but it worked out for the best. After all, here I am doing this interview, which I also thank you kindly for.

What are your opinions on music, and art in general, and its ability to bring Whites together in a way that for the last few decades has seen a dramatic uptick in the cultural atomization and degradation of Whites and White society?

As far as music goes, we’re seeing a definite eye turning towards more traditional forms of music, which I applaud. That speaks volumes about where our mental, emotional, and spiritual mindset is headed right now. We’re waking the Hell up and guess what? Its scaring the absolute dog shit out of globalist losers and the degenerate Left. Keep it up, ladies and gents!

Lastly, do you have any words of encouragement to aspiring musicians and artists in the larger alt right movement or advice for those looking to engage in a meaningful way to our current racial, cultural, and social crisis?

This may be a bit selfish of me but I would really, really love to see more folk musicians come out of the woodwork. The Left have hijacked that for so long, mainly because that movement was hijacked by the record industries (and we all know who was running that show) back in the sixties to pervert young whites in the English-speaking world. This, naturally spread all throughout the Western world and the sons and daughters of that ilk from that particular generation have been at the helm of the cultural mainstream ever since. So, the best thing, in my judgment, that Traditionalists and rightist revolutionaries can do is take that back. These are your songs and your blood’s own melodies. Take them back.

Check out Mr. Tarleton’s music from his album Diversity is our Strength here:

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