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• A Memorial Day Song: John Brown
  on May 27, 2011 in Bob Dylan Folk Music Anti-War Song memorial day song Music Review Song Analysis Song of the Day
  “John Brown” makes a fitting Memorial Day song, one to come after we sweep up from the parades and put away the speakers’ microphones, to remind of us of the deeply personal sacrifice made when our young go off to fight. And a song to make us t...
• Don’t Put a Price on My Soul: Bob Dylan, Justice and the Law
  on Mar 28, 2011 in Bob Dylan bob dylan and the law bob dylan justice Folk Music Fordham Law and Dylan Music Review outlaw songs Song Analysis Song of the Day
  Early next month, a group of lawyers will gather at Fordham Law School for a symposium on Bob Dylan and the Law. There’s a certain irony to this confab since Dylan’s so deeply wary of all institutions, especially powerful ones that wield the law.
• Going Down to Laurel – Steve Forbert
  on Mar 18, 2011 in Folk Music Love Song Music Review Song Analysis Song of the Day Steve Forbert
  Our connections to individual songs can be intensely personal. A song might be no more than white noise to one person and yet to another it can be like a punch to the chest that stops the heart and snatches the breath. So it is for me with Steve Forb...
• Ft. Worth Blues – Steve Earle
  on Mar 15, 2011 in Country Music Folk Music Music Review Song Analysis Steve Earle Townes Van Zandt Tribute Song
  Steve Earle headed out with guitar slung on his shoulder, a head full of ideas, a mug full of attitude, a longing heart and appetites big as Texas. Fates and circumstance led him to Townes Van Zandt who became mentor, friend and shaman feeding those...
• Blowin’ in the Wind – A Live Performance by Neil Young
  on Dec 7, 2010 in Bob Dylan Neil Young Anti-War Song Blowin' in the Wind Folk Music Gulf War Song
  And then came Neil Young, fuzzy guitar and wavering voice bringing a song that had all but stagnated into a museum piece back to life, a song that did nothing but ask questions, a song that made it possible to challenge, to dare. Standing in the dark...
• My Old Man – Steve Goodman
  on Nov 23, 2010 in Folk Music Singer Songwriter Steve Goodman My Old Man Songs about Dad Songs about Fathers
  My Dad would’ve turned 83 today, so you won’t blame me if I gave Steve Goodman’s ode to his father’s passing a spin. Singing in a rueful voice, the whisper of strings in the background, Goodman’s meditation on his Dad teeters on the maudlin...
• Jackson Square by Mason Jennings
  on Oct 26, 2010 in Folk Music Mason Jennings Jackson Square Tragic love song
  Jackson Square Written and performed by Mason Jennings. An odd, moving song with music breezy as a day at the beach and a story sad enough to make you stop and cry. The strumming guitar and twinkling piano float like a Jack Johnson song, yet the l...
• Waiting on a Friend – The Rolling Stones
  on Oct 21, 2010 in Mick Jagger Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones East Village Video Keith Richards Peter Tosh Waiting on a Friend
  Waiting on a Friend Performed by the Rolling Stones. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. What a perfect, hip-swaying, Reggae mellow ode to friendship. No snarling here, no sex or drugs, just a Caribbean breeze of a summer song with Mick s...
• There’s a Wall in Washington – Iris Dement
  on Oct 19, 2010 in Folk Music Iris Dement Anti-War Song Blowin' in the Wind Masters of War Vietnam Memorial
  There’s a Wall in Washington Written and Performed by Iris Dement. Introduced by insistent bongos and a sound bed of piano and guitar, Iris Dement steps the microphone and in a clear, strong voice wails, “There’s a wall in Washington.”...
• It’s My Life – the Animals
  on Oct 18, 2010 in The Animals Eric Burdon It's My Life The Brill Building
  From the opening heavy strums of Chas Chandler on the bass followed by Hilton Valentines’ dirty guitar riffs, this song is trouble, but what makes it are the swaggering vocals laid down by Eric Burdon. What misunderstood teenager (and aren’t all...

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