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You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes
It is the year 2004 and the world is definitely not a safer place. When I
was writing songs for Welcome to Pagan Place I wondered if the Bush admin-
istration was going to be as bad as I feared , and guess what--iris worse !
So bad in fact, that I immersed myself in my work and tried to grit my
teeth and somehow get through the remaining years of his disastrous rule.
I occupied my time with writing a memoir titled You Ain't Got No Easter
Clothes, which details what it was like growing up poor and black in the
1960's in Nebraska during the height of the civil rights movement. As I
wrote these childhood memories, I found myself composing songs to accompa-
ny them. To my delight, Hyperion Books took an interest in my story and
decided to publish it, and KOCH Records took an interest in my songs and
decided to release them simultaneously. In both the record and the book I
describe what it was like for me and my sister, Lisa, to live with our
paranoid/schizophrenic mother, who went in and out o£ mental institutions
as we bounced from one foster home to another. I wrote about watching my
mother hang herself in front of me when I was 6 years old, only to have
her recover somewhat and resume leadership of our household. I also wrote
about the various social service agencies and programs which were largely
responsible for my survival in those terrifying and uncertain times.
Those agencies and programs, as well as the people who worked for them ,
made a huge difference in my life and I watch in dismay as the Bush team
strips funding and eliminates many of them in order to further its own
frightening agenda. Writing a memoir was a huge departure from anything
I'd ever done before and I hope the book and this companion CD serve to
explain how I arrived at the liberal left-wing politics I hold today and
shed some light on a kind of existence known only to those who have not
lived a life of privilege and entitlement.
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Just Give Her Some Truth! Singer-Songwriter Laura Love Offers Open Letter On Iraq Crisis
Singer-songwriter, Laura Love, who UTNE Reader recently named to their 2003 list of Artists Who Will Shake The World, offers an open letter on the Iraq crisis on the deadly sounds of silence:
I wrote "I Want You Gone" because I have never been so angry as I am now. I have never been so afraid for my future as I am now. I have never been so moved to act as I am now.
I feel compelled to speak out against a president and an administration that would insist upon leading an unwilling nation and world into a war whose consequences will surely be death and global calamity.
If this president could demonstrate the same passion for protecting the environment, advancing the plight of the poor and furthering education as he has for making the rich richer and flexing his military muscle, I might be able to get over the fact that he stole the election and crammed the Patriot Act down our throats.
The world will not be freer and safer as a consequence of this war. The world will be a freer and safer when all of its citizens have equal access to the basic necessities of life.
I don't expect that this song will bring about world peace or anything but writing it made me feel a whole lot better and that there is something I can do, that we can do as an artistic community to call into question the fountains of untruth flowing in Washington.
We in the musical community have a proud history of questioning authority. It is essential to our role that we now raise our hands in greater number and lift up the vox populi of our America for the world and our leaders to see and hear.
Music isn't just about being nice and making it rhyme. It's about making sounds that disrupt the silent passivity of a country being lead deadly astray.
Laura's protest song "I Want You Gone" is featured on her April 22nd KOCH Records release, Welcome To Pagan Place.
We at Harmony Ridge Music support Laura 100% on her stand against our present "Regime". We are proud of her for expressing what she believes in and speaking out despite the current atmosphere of fear, lies and deception now overwhelming our country. Not all Americans are ignorant and turn a blind eye to crimes against race, religion, invironment and humanity.
God damn you masters of war!!!!
Some Lyrics from now and the past that express our feeling exactly:
| We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win Some guy refuses to fight, and we call that the sin but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free |
Living in the wasteland of the free where the poor have now become the enemy Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy Living in the wasteland of the free ....Iris Dement (from Wasteland Of The Free 1996) |
they're gonna make a pretty penny| How much do I know To talk out of turn You might say that I'm young You might say I'm unlearned But there's one thing I know Though I'm younger than you Even Jesus would never Forgive what you do ....Bob Dylan (from Masters Of War 1963) |
And I hope that you die, and your death will come soon I'll follow your casket, in the pale afternoon And I'll watch as your lowered, into your deathbed And I'll stand on your grave till I'm sure that your dead |
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You can't resist Laura Love's invigorating, pan-stylistic melange. Dousing her infectious compositions in shades of folk, funk, R&B and world musis, singer / bassist Love creates music that's as much fun for the mind as it is for the feet. This was more than evident during Love's moving appearance on the popular national television show Sessions at West 54th.
Her Zoë debut Fourteen Days delivers more of the wistful, earthy fusion that has made Love a festival favorite. Featuring a batch of stunning Love originals, plus an inviting cover of Laura Nyro's classic "Stoned Soul Picnic," Fourteen Days is an intoxicating voyage into the mind of an adventurous, boundless artist.
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On her second major label release, Laura Love has tightened her sound, thanks in part to her strongest band to date, featuring long time guitarist Rod Cook, violinist Barbara Lamb, and percussionist Chris Leighton. Although Love's music has sometimes been dubbed Afro-Celtic, the pieces here are hard to pigeonhole that readily. For example, "Mahbootay," a tribute to Love's sitting bones, begins with some dazzling gypsy fiddling, moves on to some African-inspired chanting interrupted by a killer surf guitar solo. You get the idea. Love's ongoing fascination with vocal sounds is demonstrated by her wonderful updating of the jump rope rhyme, "The Clapping Song," with some impassioned yodeling and a neat rap interlude by Sir Mix-A-Lot, and the bluesy shuffle,"Give Me Five," which updates another street rhyme for its chorus.
On "Longfellow Creek" Love plays with the Indian names of the flora and fauna of her Washington home
while decrying the defilement of a once noble stream. The folky "Punctured and Hissing," a curious tale of
loss from the perspective of a punctured tire, featuring a fine driving violin solo by Lamb and a dramatic
finish. Love updated four of her earlier tunes for this recording, and "Less is More," in particular, benefits
from the taut, uptempo arrangement rendered here.
--- Michael Parrish, Dirty Linen
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The Laura Love Collection (1995 Putumayo M118-2)
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Octoroon (1997 Mercury 314 534 649-2)
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