{"id":169504,"date":"2021-03-01T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/?p=169504"},"modified":"2024-03-15T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:58:30","slug":"denim-cult-tony-alamo-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/2021\/03\/denim-cult-tony-alamo-h\/","title":{"rendered":"The Denim Cult of Tony Alamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/2QTg4YUI7R3vhQ8SMSEIPI\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today we\u2019re talking about the middle part of a Venn diagram that includes denim jackets, cults, and rampant abuse.<\/p><div class=\"related_posts evergreen_funnels\"><h3>Like this? Read these:<\/h3><div class=\"flex space-x-4\"><div class=\"related_post w-1\/2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/2021\/05\/denim-dogs-blowout\/\"><img width=\"360\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-topic-pupreme-360x225.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><noscript><img width=\"360\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-topic-pupreme-360x225.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/noscript><h4>The Denim of Dogs &#8211; Blowout<\/h4><\/a><\/div><div class=\"related_post w-1\/2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/2021\/07\/the-losers-of-champs\/\"><img width=\"360\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/confiscated-tsa-knives-360x225.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><noscript><img width=\"360\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heddels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/confiscated-tsa-knives-360x225.jpg\" class=\"left wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/noscript><h4>The Losers of Champs &#8211; Blowout 52<\/h4><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>We\u2019re talking about Tony Alamo, and yes that\u2019s spelled like Alamo as in \u201cremember the\u201d but it\u2019s pronounced like Ah-lah-mo. Regardless, he was about as despicable a human being as they come. From the late 60s onward, he ran a religious cult that separated families, forced people to work without pay, beat and sexually abused children, tried to summon people from the dead&#8230;and made some pretty cool rhinestone denim jackets.<\/p>\n<p>These jackets were extremely popular, you could see them on the backs of everyone from Mr. T, Sonny Bono, Michael Jackson, Burt Reynolds, and Dolly Parton. So today we\u2019re going inside the Tony Alamo of Nashville fashion label and inside the Tony Alamo Ministries cult as we dig up this denim crime story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u2019re talking about the middle part of a Venn diagram that includes denim jackets, cults, and rampant abuse.Like this?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":169506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4799],"tags":[1446,4947,4983,137,47560],"acf":{"published_feed_date":"2021-03-01 00:01:44"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.8 (Yoast SEO v21.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Denim Cult of Tony Alamo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week&#039;s Blowout covers the crimes and the denim of the Tony Alamo Ministries, a cult that made some of the most popular denim jackets 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