Dave is Hearing:
Friday, August 10th, 2012
by Dave Marsh and Danny Alexander You might wonder, for good reason, why we are writing about Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball five months after its release. Some of the reasons have been personal. But there are better reasons why we’re speaking up now, and speaking in the way that we are. Part of it is that Read more...
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Danny Alexander, Dave Marsh, Death to My Hometown, Easy Money, Jack of All Trades, Land of Hope and Dreams, music and politics, Rock & Rap Confidential, Rocky Ground, Shackled and Drawn, This Depression, We Are Alive, We Take Care of Our Own, Wrecking Ball, Wrecking Ball song, You Got It
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
I wrote this for Rock & Rap Confidential, the (now online) newsletter about music and politics I’ve edited with Lee Ballinger for thirty years–we started right about this time of year, too, I think. I’ve said very little at RRC in recent months, and this topic (suggested by Lee) seems a good place to get Read more...
Tags: alejandro escovedo, Bruce Springsteen, David Alvarez, Eliza Gilkyson, Jimmy LaFave, Joe Ely, Juanes, Kiss, Lester Bangs, Little Richard, Low Anthem, Rock and Rap Confidential, RRC, Smokey Robinson, Steve Earle, SXSW, The Animals, Woody Guthrie, Wrecking Ball album
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
This article originally appeared at the website of Tim Wise, who wrote it. It appears here with the permission of Wise, but you would do well to connect to the original page: http://www.timwise.org/2012/01/of-broken-clocks-presidential-candidates-and-the-confusion-of-certain-white-liberals/ Tim Wise is the outstanding white opponent of racism and white supremacy in the United States today. The connections he makes here Read more...
Tags: 2012 election, 2012 Republican candidates, Kevin Gray, Ron Paul, Tim Wise, white racism, white supremacy
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
We’re pre-recorded this weekend so I can be sure that what I wrote down is what actually plays. We usually change several pieces of music every week–pieces get removed because we’re out of time (talked too much, or I miscalculated), or because I had a brainstorm on Sunday morning before the show (at home–good, I Read more...
Tags: Booker T & the MGs, Booker T. Jones, Clarence Paul, Dave Marsh, Dedicated: A tribute to the Five Royales, Eddie Floyd, Five Royales, Kick Out the Jams, Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams, Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Stax, Steve Cropper
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
Kick Out the Jams 7 17 2011 Howdido, Woody Guthrie CD: Nursery Days Do Re Me, Bob Dylan CD: The People Speak soundtrack Pastures of Plenty/This Land is Your Land, Lila Downs CD: La Linea This Land Is Your Land, Bruce Springsteen CD: Live 1975-1985, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Buffalo Skinners, Jim Read more...
Tags: Artificial Gardens, Dave Marsh, Kick Out the Jams, Maren Parusel, The Loft, Turn Off the Dark, Woody Guthrie
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
From the Rock & Rap Confidential mailing list (www.rockrap.com). Letter to the Baltimore Sun July 7, 2011 Sen. Benjamin Cardin’s recent letter defending Bono and his ONE foundation puts him in direct opposition to President Obama’s appeal for “corporate jet” owners to pay their fair share of tax (“Cardin: ONE Campaign works,” June 27). U2 Read more...
Tags: Bono, overpaid rock stars, U2 tax dodge
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
It’s said that Bob Dylan once called Jimmy Cliff’s “Vietnam” the best protest song he’d ever heard. If he did, there’d be no reason to argue. If he didn’t, he could’ve. At Glastonbury, last month, Cliff changed “Vietnam” (41 years old) into a contemporary song once again by changing the title to “Afghanistan.” As you Read more...
Tags: "honor the troops", Jimmy Cliff, peace movement, War in Afghanistan
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Peter Gunn Theme, Clarence Clemons (Porky’s Revenge soundtrack) Slow Walk, Sil Austin (The Greatest R&B Hits of 1956) I Wanna Be Your Hero, Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers (Rescue/Hero, Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers) Blood Brothers, Bruce Springsteen (outtake from Live in New York City–Madison Square Garden 2000) Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Read more...
Tags: Clarence Clemons, Coasters, Dave Marsh, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Kick Out the Jams, Lonnie Ray Atkinson, Project Question, Robins, SiriusXM, The Duhks, The Loft
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Vincent Harding, scholar and writer, speaks here as perhaps the leading Gandhian activist in our nation. He can say not only that he “marched with King,” but that he wrote with him, planned with him, and learned together with him. He remains one of the truly inspiring figures of the American freedom movement. This open letter Read more...
Tags: Diane Nash, Martin Luther King, nonviolence today, Obama and civil rights, Obama and terrorism, Vincent Harding
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
May 29, 2011 on Kick Out the Jams
Tags: Bob Dylan, Chuck Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron, J.P. Robinson, Jimmy LaFave, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, Kermit Lynch, Kick Out the Jams, Manfred Mann, O.V. Wright, Percy’s Song, Red House Records, The Ultimate Johnny Rivers Anthology, The Walker Brothers, Thea Gilmore
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