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Be Careful How You Vote
| Artist | Song | |
| Sunnyland Slim | Be Careful How You Vote | |
| Yank Rachell | Depression Blues | |
| J.B. Lenoir | Eisenhower Blues | |
| Freddie King & Lulu Reed | Do the President Twist [JFK] | |
| Louisiana Red | I Had a Dream [Senator Bo Diddley!] | |
| "Hair" Original Broadway Cast | Initials [LBJ] | |
| Tom Paxton | Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation | |
| Phil Ochs | Here's to the State of Richard Nixon | |
| Country Joe McDonald | Tricky Dicky | |
| James Brown | Funky President (People It's Bad) [Ford] | |
| Blue Mountain | Jimmy Carter | |
| Austin Lounge Lizards | The Ballad of Ronald Reagan | |
| Blaze Foley | Oval Room [Reagan] | |
| Calvin Russell | Rockin' the Republicans [Bush I] | |
| Drive-By Truckers | The President's Penis is Missing [Clinton] | |
| department of homeboy security | No Doubt [shrub] | |
| Rickie Lee Jones | Ugly Man [The Chimperor] | |
| department of homeboy security | Bush as Dictator | |
| Steve Earle | Rich Man's War [Smirking Murder Monkey] | |
| Drive-By Truckers | Puttin' People on the Moon [lying sacks of shit] | |
| Randy Newman | Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) | |
| Bonnie Raitt | Everybody's Cryin' Mercy | |
| Ray Charles | The Danger Zone | |
| George Harrison | Beware of Darkness | |
| Woody Guthrie & Sonny Terry | All of You Fascists Bound to Lose | |
Comment:
I'm back .... briefly. I've been busy trying to move to a different house, but you can see what's been on my mind. We have an important election coming up, the most important since ..... well, since the LAST one (ahhhh .... if only we knew then what we know now). As the immortal Sunnyland advises, "be careful how you vote." And, I might add, do what you can do. Give money. Give time. (Re-)defeat the Evil Empire! Save America! Save the world! By the way, are you registered to vote yet? In many states, the deadline to register to vote in the November election is as early as October 2! What are you waiting for?!?!?"Watch out now, take care, beware of greedy leaderswho take you where you should not go." --George Harrison
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I haven't posted in a while, but I've got to come out for this one. Great, great stuff in both message and music. Love it.
Fine job on the sentiment and the mix. Lots of songs I would have forgotten about had I tried the same thing. I really love the Phil Oches song and also dig the Harrison choice. Even though it looks like we're voting the same way I can't fully endorse the brownshirt with anything more than a misguided chuckle. And of course, lots of our international AotMers aren't going to be able to register but they should be able to dig the mix just the same.
I've given up on Bush/Blair politics & am trying to get my head around French politics! Give me a few years & I might have sussed the French psyche regarding politics (though I doubt it) Local elections out in my neck of the woods scared the shit out of me 2 years ago when Fascists received a sizeable proportion of people's votes! TrTs trTs bonne melangT.
Senator Bo Diddley??? I can totally get behind that . . . and this great mix!
great sentiment, great mix. I don't think you've ever made a bad mix, Steve. Brilliant stuff.
peace love and happiness. i'm anti-war and pro this mix. GREAT MIX.
ok we got some bad politicans in here Sweden but hey yours are dangerous for the whole Tellus, I'm not sure Kerry's great (if he been in a swedish election, he would really right on the rightwingest politician) but anything I mean anything must be better then what you got right now. btw nice stuff even if I may be the only one that thinks Steve Earle are overated and pretty boring ;)
Wow. Great.
But in the interests of balance, let's not forget that George Harrison (and John Lennon) preached one thing and practised quite another - capitalism and tax avoidance. Who did the writer of "Taxman" think should pay for social justice, I wonder?
agree with the sentiments, although as i age, a choice isn't really only "2 or 3 people" if you know what i mean. would like this one!?? remember David Frye and his Nixon/Agnew album? "Spiro, when Mickeys big hand.....etc, etc." where's the comedy relief these days i ax ya?
'Nother great one, man. Hate that bastard chimp.
Nice one. Timely and important.
Wonderful.
Yeah! Woody Guthrie will come through for you in the end. & that James Brown "Funky president" is a classic -- The historical perspective is illuminating - notice how each new US administration makes the previously worst one look good by comparison? But can we imagine any successor who will ever do this for Junior Bush?
Rock the vote.