Your initial thoughts were neither "right" nor "wrong", Les, they were merely an indication of your own specific musical tastes.

There's no reason I can see why an artist's political decisions on one occasion or another should serve as a basis on which to judge the quality of his musical performances and everything else about him. I don't like the fact that Burl Ives testified against Pete Seeger and other folksingers...don't like it at all...but that has absolutely nothing to do with my ability to appreciate the man when he sings...or when he acts in a movie.

People aren't ALL good or ALL bad merely on the basis of their politics, and they shouldn't be judged so. They are a mixture of human qualities, strengths and weaknesses, good and bad, as are we all.