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Mon Aug-23-04 11:14 PM
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Let Celebrate Steve Earle's "The Revolution Starts Now" |
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Tue Aug-24-04 12:12 AM
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F the CC
I used to listen to the radio And I don’t guess they’re listenin’ to me no more They talk too much but that’s okay I don’t understand a single word they say Piss and moan about the immigrants But don’t say nothin’ about the president A democracy don’t work that way I can say anything I wanna say
So fuck the FCC Fuck the FBI Fuck the CIA Livin’ in the motherfuckin’ USA
People tell me that I’m paranoid And I admit I’m gettin’ pretty nervous, boy It just gets tougher everyday To sit around and watch it while it slips away Been called a traitor and a patriot Call me anything you want to but Just don’t forget your history Dirty Lenny died so we could all be free
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Tue Aug-24-04 12:23 AM
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I have dial up so I can't listen on the net. I've been waiting for this album. I heard him play one song from it last month and it sounded like the perfect anti-war anthem. I'm buying it first thing in the morning.
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Tue Aug-24-04 12:37 AM
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3. Holy shit, country music is alive and well! |
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Maybe not well, but definitely alive...
"Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man's war Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattoed on his arm Red, white and blue {something} kinda hard I left my pretty young wife and baby girl, A stack of overdue bills and went off to sea..."
Hell yes. HELL. YES.
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Tue Aug-24-04 12:42 AM
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4. That's the song I heard him play at |
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the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival last month. When he got to the line "Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man's war" the crowd went ape shit. A thousand people in rural OK just loved it! It's a great song!
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Tue Aug-24-04 12:45 AM
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Edited on Tue Aug-24-04 12:49 AM by Argumentus
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Tue Aug-24-04 12:47 AM
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6. Never heard his music before |
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Thoguh I've heard the name.Checking out his bio now: Woodie Guthrie festival, keynote speaker at the Allen Ginsberg folk music festival, playwright and short-story author.
Where the hell have I been? He's like Bob Dylan, Woodie Guthrie, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash all rolled into one...
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Tue Aug-24-04 12:59 AM
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8. and don't forget he's Air America's newest talk radio host n/t |
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Tue Aug-24-04 01:04 AM
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Rich Man’s War
Jimmy joined the army ‘cause he had no place to go There ain’t nobody hirin’ ‘round here since all the jobs went down to Mexico Reckoned that he’d learn himself a trade maybe see the world Move to the city someday and marry a black haired girl Somebody somewhere had another plan Now he’s got a rifle in his hand Rollin’ into Baghdad wonderin’ how he got this far Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattooed on his arm Red white and blue to the bone when he landed in Kandahar Left behind a pretty young wife and a baby girl A stack of overdue bills and went off to save the world Been a year now and he’s still there Chasin’ ghosts in the thin dry air Meanwhile back at home the finance company took his car Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
When will we ever learn When will we ever see We stand up and take our turn And keep tellin’ ourselves we’re free
Ali was the second son of a second son Grew up in Gaza throwing bottles and rocks when the tanks would come Ain’t nothin’ else to do around here just a game children play Somethin’ ‘bout livin’ in fear all your life makes you hard that way
He answered when he got the call Wrapped himself in death and praised Allah A fat man in a new Mercedes drove him to the door Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
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Tue Aug-24-04 12:55 AM
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7. country is definitely well... |
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always has been...
we can ignore the crap put out by the GOP/Nashville country types....there's tons of good stuff to listen to
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Tue Aug-24-04 01:05 AM
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10. Alt Country is what they're calling it these days, I guess |
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And it's pretty hard to find any alt-country in this shithole desert I live in. Except for Willie and Cash and Lyle Lovett and the Dixie Chicks and even Kinky Friedman (the guy on the right in my sig pic) -- I don't hear too much decent country music these days, unless it gets lots of mention on internet bboards. Maybe it has something to do w/ the fact that I swore off c/w when I left Texas 15 years ago, and maybe it has something to do with the fact that Nashville is no better than LA when it comes to music these days.
At any rate -- thanks for posting the link and, to paraphrase John Lennon, "turning me on" to Steve Earle.
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Tue Aug-24-04 01:12 AM
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11. try some of these.... |
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Edited on Tue Aug-24-04 01:19 AM by blitzen
Jack Ingram, Billy Joe Shaver, Robert Earl Keen, Chip Taylor, Bill Kirchen, Greg Trooper, Jim Lauderdale (new CD with lyrics by Grateful Dead songwiter Robert Hunter), and definitely Terry Allen (he's a bit freaky, like Kinky F. only, I think, a lot better as a musician and songwriter).
Anyway, it is indeed alive and well...But of course I like a lot of the old, old stuff.
What shithole desert are you in? Just wondering because I'm a fans of deserts...I'm stuck in shithole Louisiana.
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Tue Aug-24-04 01:44 AM
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12. Las Vegas -- the Mojave |
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Talk about a dearth of culture...
I grew up in a swamp in SE Texas; I'd kill for a bit of rain now and then, even if it means the occasional hurricane and the frequent mosquitoes.
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Tue Aug-24-04 10:50 PM
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13. Holy cow this album kicks so much ass! |
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I just got The Revolution Starts Now. It is easily my favorite Steve Earle CD and one of my favorite CD's of any genre. My only complaint is that it's a little short.
This CD is alt country's answer to Rage Against the Machine and Steve Earle is the 21st century's answer to Woody Guthrie.
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