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Thank You Note
For this guy.
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Merle Haggard, Rebuild America First
A must see, even if you don’t like country music.
Read More..>>An Early Jerry Falwell Memory
Back in 1984-1985, I was in my first hardcore band. We went through a number of name changes before we decided on Nerve (our guitar player Chris Shea came up with that one).
One of my best friends at the time, Kelly Bray, was our singer, though the two of us wrote songs [...]
Friday Videos: Shape Note Singing
Last night I did shape-note singing for the first time, also referred to as Sacred Harp from the most popular shape-note songbook, a style highly popular in the rural south in the 19th and early 20th Century.
The dominant religion at the time, the Baptist faith, largely prohibited musical instruments in worship, so hymns were sung [...]
“The Awful German Language”
Via FDL commenter Eli:
Mark Twain’s The Awful German Language is a reminder that any successful contemporary American satirist or humorists stands on the shoulder of giants. I couldn’t hold in the belches of laughter reading Twain’s experiences with German. A sample:
There are ten parts of speech, and they are all troublesome. An average [...]
Get on the Good Foot: James Brown, 1933-2006
Godfather of Soul, Hardest Working Man in Show Business, is Dead.
No PCP jokes, please. I only saw James once, and the man was a force of nature. Watching him perform on the steps of the Art Museum about two years ago, I was stunned to realize he was 70. The [...]
Friday Videos: Dead Kennedys, “Kill the Poor” and “Police Truck”
Kill the Poor, 1979
Police Truck
Read More..>>American Hardcore: Disappointing
I finally made it out last night to see the documentary, “American Hardcore”, which I have written about extensively. As I’ve written in previous posts, the music was immediate, aggressive almost to a fault, and the basis of my political consciousness. I was very excoted to see the movie.
Perhaps I got my [...]
More on Hardcore and Political Consciousness
In 1983 I was an angry, lonely, and misunderstood 13-year-old. Most of this was rooted in what was going on at home: my mother had surrendered to her alcoholism and spent half of her time in a staggering, unpredictable drunken rage, and the other half in her room with the door locked, recuperating from [...]
Read More..>>This Is True.
THE BAGS
Oaf Records
Night of the Corn People
21 songs
Nope, it’s not a new Bags album. But at the same time, it is. This is a re-master of a 1991 release, with some bonus tracks, so if you’re a Bags fan (and if you’re not, what the fuck is wrong [...]
