Saturday, November 10, 2012

Elected Officials: Hollow Man

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Mark Erelli: Hollow Man [ purchase ] Chuck E Costa: Hollow Man (Mark Erelli cover) [ purchase ] I grew up in a house where it was co...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Elected Officials: You Got Away With It

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Todd Snider : You Got Away With It [ purchase ] WARNING—VITRIOL AHEAD: I wasn’t fast enough to make this a transitional post from “...

Elected Officials: Grandpa Was A Carpenter

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John Prine: YouTube version of Grandpa Was A Carpenter John Prine: [ download it @ Amazon ] A few weeks back, we were looking at L...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Elected Officials: We've Got Franklin D. Roosevelt Back Again

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Norman and Nancy Blake : We've Got Franklin D. Roosevelt Back Again [ purchase New Lost City Ramblers: Songs from the Depression ]...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Elected Officials: FDR in Trinidad

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YouTube link to FDR in Trinidad (Attila the Hun) YouTube link to FDR in Trinidad (Ry Cooder) Amazon link to purchase Ry Cooder versi...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Elected Officials : Vote For Me

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The Move: Vote For Me [Purchase] Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.   George Jean Nathan ...

Elected Officials: Bread Line Blues

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Bernard “Slim” Smith : Breadline Blues (1932) Del McCoury Band with Mac Wiseman, Tim O'Brien, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings : ...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Disasters: It’s The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

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Link removed at the request of the copyright owner. I’m sitting here in my house in suburban New York, unable to get to work because t...

Disasters: Money For Floods

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Richard Shindell: Money For Floods [ purchase ] We're About 9: Money For Floods (Richard Shindell cover) [ purchase ] Sandy is b...

Disasters: They Were Not Alone

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GuyMon & McCann : They Were Not Alone On January 2, 2006, an explosion shook the Sago Mine in West Virginia. Thirteen men were trap...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Disasters: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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The Band: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (YouTube Video link) [ purchase the '69 album @ Amazon ] How about this saying: O...

Disasters: Trinidad Hurricane

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Wilmoth Houdini : Trinidad Hurricane [Purchase]  To kick off a week of disaster songs, may I present Wilmoth Houdini,  the Caly...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Costumes and Masks: Behind the Mask

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YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehLCvd_I3As I can’t imagine you don’t know Jose Feliciano. Most famous (perhaps)...

Costumes and Masks: Ole John Bell (The Witch’s Curse)

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Valerie Smith with Becky Buller : Ole John Bell (The Witch’s Curse) [ purchase ] I don’t care a whole lot for witches (except when ...

Costumes and Masks: The Moose

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[ purchase ] One of the themes that I seem to regularly come back to is whether there is objectively good music or not—why do some peopl...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Costumes and Masks: The Lone Teen Ranger

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[ purchase ] We’re celebrating Halloween a week early here this week. This way, anyone who still doesn’t know what to dress up as can ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Conversations: Fish Song

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Country Joe and the Fish: The "Fish" Cheer  @ YouTube I may be pushing the limits that define “conversation”, but here goes...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Conversations: Fishing

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Richard Shindell : Fishing [ purchase ] There’s something about Richard Shindell’s voice that just grabs me. I’m not sure where or w...

Conversations: Conversation with a Ghost

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Ellis Paul : Conversation with a Ghost Ellis Paul : Conversation with a Ghost [ purchase ] With Halloween approaching, I’ll o...

Conversations: Conversation

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[ purchase ] In this season of speeches and debates, I find myself thinking about verbal communication. Words can clarify or obscure, wi...