[FairfieldLife] Re: Album review: Election Special
Nice --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Ry Cooder is one of the most interesting musicians in America. Has been, pretty much from the start of his career playing with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, through his solo work and the Buena Vista Social Club, and now to protest song. He has said about this album that it's designed to send a message to the deacons in the High Church of the Next Dollar. May they listen. 1. Mutt Romney Blues A first-person blues sung from the point of view of Mitt's dog, stuck on the roof of that car. Ry is a musical historian as well as a musician. He is fully aware that this is a slave song, meant to be sung in the fields to keep the despair away. One gets the feeling he knows that Mitt would put us up that roof, too, without giving it a second thought. 2. Brother Is Gone Like Robert Johnson, the brothers made their deal with Satan back at the crossroads. But we're the ones who have to pay the interest. 3. The Wall Street Part of Town Like Dylan, Ry often hides his wryest and most scathing commentary beneath the most boppy, uptempo songs. 4. Guantanamo In this one you can hear all of the licks that Keith Richards ripped off from Ry all those years ago. They sound better coming from the guy who invented them. 5. Cold Cold Feeling A slow blues, sung by the POTUS as he walks through the halls of the White House late at night. A moment of compassion for the black man with the worst job in America. Smokin' slide guitar solo...classic Ry. 6. Going to Tampa I can do no better justice to this song than Ry's own comments on it, so I'll just provide them: As a mother, will Sarah Palin lead the Republican convention in a prayer for Treyvon? Will 'Stand Your Ground' stand? Don't forget your bed sheet and keep your money in your shoes. 7. Kool-Aid The blues song Zimmerman will sing in prison, having imbibed of Florida gun and Stand Your Ground laws instead of less intoxicating beverages. 8. The 90 and the 9 Pure Woody Guthrie. And as appropriate in our era as his songs were for the Depression era he lived in. 9. Take Your Hands Off It Another nod to Woody, comparing his This Land Is My Land with the 1%'s This Land Is My Land.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Album review: Election Special
Doc sez, Ry Cooder! I forgot all about him - sounds like he is keepin' it real. Thanks for the review, B. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Ry Cooder is one of the most interesting musicians in America. Has been, pretty much from the start of his career playing with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, through his solo work and the Buena Vista Social Club, and now to protest song. He has said about this album that it's designed to send a message to the deacons in the High Church of the Next Dollar. May they listen. 1. Mutt Romney Blues A first-person blues sung from the point of view of Mitt's dog, stuck on the roof of that car. Ry is a musical historian as well as a musician. He is fully aware that this is a slave song, meant to be sung in the fields to keep the despair away. One gets the feeling he knows that Mitt would put us up that roof, too, without giving it a second thought. 2. Brother Is Gone Like Robert Johnson, the brothers made their deal with Satan back at the crossroads. But we're the ones who have to pay the interest. 3. The Wall Street Part of Town Like Dylan, Ry often hides his wryest and most scathing commentary beneath the most boppy, uptempo songs. 4. Guantanamo In this one you can hear all of the licks that Keith Richards ripped off from Ry all those years ago. They sound better coming from the guy who invented them. 5. Cold Cold Feeling A slow blues, sung by the POTUS as he walks through the halls of the White House late at night. A moment of compassion for the black man with the worst job in America. Smokin' slide guitar solo...classic Ry. 6. Going to Tampa I can do no better justice to this song than Ry's own comments on it, so I'll just provide them: As a mother, will Sarah Palin lead the Republican convention in a prayer for Treyvon? Will 'Stand Your Ground' stand? Don't forget your bed sheet and keep your money in your shoes. 7. Kool-Aid The blues song Zimmerman will sing in prison, having imbibed of Florida gun and Stand Your Ground laws instead of less intoxicating beverages. 8. The 90 and the 9 Pure Woody Guthrie. And as appropriate in our era as his songs were for the Depression era he lived in. 9. Take Your Hands Off It Another nod to Woody, comparing his This Land Is My Land with the 1%'s This Land Is My Land.
