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Soothes the savage beast.
From Cool Hand Luke, in memory of Paul Newman:
We used to wail on this back in my church camp days. (We weren’t big on hypocrisy back then, either.) A folk-inspired song written in the ’50s, it’s been covered by a wide variety of artists, including Jack Johnson, the Levellers, the King Earl Boogie Band, the Flaming Lips, the Dead Kennedy and Billy Idol.
Ithaca ranks second to Austin in musicians per capita. And next Sunday, many of them will be playing at the Fall Creek Porch Fest. More than 30 porches in the Fall Creek neighborhood will turn into acoustic venues from 2 to 6 p.m. for singer-songwriters, bluegrass bands, classical ensembles, jug bands and other groupings that defy labeling. The Porch Fest site will have a map up soon, or you can pick one up at several locations in town.
My brother sent me this one. Joe Cocker from Woodstock. Love the performance. But now, someone has taken time to translate the lyrics.
John Hartford song that always made me tear up a little — even more since 9/11.
And whenever I need a little lift from the world’s troubles, well I may have lost my lunchbox, but I’m Still Here:
Steve’s playing September 11, 2008 at the State Theatre, Ithaca, N.Y.
Last night I had a dream
That the world had turned around
And all our hopes had come to be
And the people gathered ‘round
They all brought what they could bring
And nobody went without
And I learned a song to sing
The revolution starts now
To celebrate Labor Day, I was thinking Matthew Grimm and Red Smear’s One Big Union. But given what’s transpiring on the Gulf Coast, I figured Randy Newman’s more somber Lousiana 1927 was more appropriate.