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Saturday, June 29th, 2013
Bobby “Blue” Bland and the Perfection of Southern Soul Bobby Bland was, in his prime, the most powerful blues shouter of all time, though capable as well of a caressing tenderness. “Turn On Your Lovelight” is what the rock world knows, I guess, but the man’s legacy is also in “Ain’t Nothing You Can Do,” […]
Tags: Bobby "Blue" Bland, Dave Marsh on Bobby Bland, Southern Soul, Two Steps from the Blues
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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 […]
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 […]
Tags: 2012 election, 2012 Republican candidates, Kevin Gray, Ron Paul, Tim Wise, white racism, white supremacy
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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 […]
Tags: "honor the troops", Jimmy Cliff, peace movement, War in Afghanistan
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
May 29, 2011 on “Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams.”
Tags: Annie Barrows, Barack Obama, Bob Dylan, Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution, Dave Marsh, David Deutschman, Dick Nichols, Dignity -Bob Dylan, Frank Joyce, Gil Scott-Heron, Helen Yaffe, Indignados, I’m New Here, Jamie xx, Jonathan Franzen, Kevin Gray, Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams, Mary Ann Shaffer, Michael Kamen, The Che Guevara Reader, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Yip Harburg
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Our guest on both Kick Out the Jams and Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams with Dave Marsh will be Dale Maharidge, author of Journey to Nowhere and the new Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, each of which has an introduction by Bruce Springsteen (each of which Bruce volunteered to write).
Tags: Christie the Clown, Dale Maharidge, Dave Marsh, Journey to Nowhere, Kick Out the Jams, Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams, Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
[This item appeared in April at the Holler If You Hear Me website: www.hollerif.blogspot.com I added a little here.] Somebody asked if Robert Johnson ever got to Chicago. I looked for the fact in a few places and then realized that what I was going to get was somebody’s version but that it was more […]
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Every year, on January 3–the anniversary of her death at age 21, from a very rare cancer, retroperitoneal sarcoma– I write my daughter Kristen a letter. This is the 18th. The others are available if you would like to see them. Thank you for the attention you might give this. If you would like to […]
Tags: cancer and young adults, death of children, fathers and daughters, Kristen Ann Carr, Kristen Ann Carr Fund, sarcoma
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010
From my friends Joanne Landy and Thomas Harrison, co-directors of Campaign for Peace and Democracy. I hope you will join us in this simple but meaningful activity. And let’s all add a New Year’s resolution for our too often bloodthirsty nation: End the war! And don’t start any new ones. Thanks for all of you […]
Tags: Afghanistan, end the war, New Year's activities, peace
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
I was one of the first to be asked to sign this statement, and did so eagerly. Things like this might not seem very important, organizations like CPD might seem out of the way of the main stream of events. But I can remember how important it was that names I knew, and names I […]
Tags: anti-war, Campaign for Peace and Democracy, democracy, Iran, peace, petitions against the war
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