Roll With it Johnny, from Twin Cities bluesman Peter Lang, provides balance to Jeffrey Lewis’ Obama bio.
Music to vote by (6): Peter Lang
Category: Music
Soothes the savage beast.
Music to vote by (5): Jeffrey Lewis
A Quick Biography of Barack Obama. In one minute. Jeffrey explains the difficulties of writing a good political song in his NY Times blog post, Verse, Verse, Chorus, Vote!
Happy Halloween: Let’s do the time warp again
First flick I ever saw with Susan Sarandon.
Music to vote by (4): Squirrel Nut Zippers and Ricki Lee Jones
From the 2006 midterm election. The zippers made this available song available to local campaigns to be modified for their use. This one was leveled at Denny Hastert.
Live version on the 2006 campaign trail (without Ricki).
Music to vote by (3): James McMurtry
I was moved to tears yesterday listening to Ron Kuby relate a story on his radio show about the homeless guy who had to go to court to register to vote because all he could provide as an address was the park bench where he slept.
“By going to such lengths to cast his vote, he showed that he cares a lot more about his country than his country cares about him.”
It’s about the economy, stupid.
Larry’s son with the angry rock version of Can’t Make It Here Anymore.
Or if you prefer, the angry acoustic version: