Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet: Hugs In the Hood

Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet: Hugs In the Hood: (To Robin Lane) If you’re trying to see where I’m going I’m trying to learn what I’m knowing Like promoting my poetry And asking to he...

Juneteenth Playlist

Inspired by Bandcamp, who are giving 100% of its sales’ revenue to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Monday, June 19, here’s my first Juneteenth playlist.  These songs are on Bandcamp, and links are provided.   

Choose Your Weapon Kj Denhert  reggae, female voice, about war and how to prevent it, "If you don't choose a weapon, war will choose a weapon for your child." kjdenhert.bandcamp.com/track/choose-your-weapon

Help Kj Denhert  voice and guitar thoughtful ballad, bringing new life to the lyrics. Sony Music is contact for Beatles.  KJ owns her master, and has permission to record song.  motemamusic.bandcamp.com/track/help

Be A Pain  Alastair Moock  country, upbeat, tempo kindred to "Thank God, I"m a Country Boy" standing up to what's wrong, Rosa Parks, Harvey Milk, be a pain shout about it and complain, equal pay--Billy Jean King, Parkland, “Don't be polite, raise your alastair mock: be a pain: Be A Pain by Alastair Moock  country, upbeat, tempo kindred to "Thank God, I'm a Country Boy" standing up to what's wrong, Rosa Parks, Harvey Milk, be a pain shout about it and complain, equal pay--Billy Jean King, Parkland, “If you see something that’s wrong, raise your hand and say that’s wrong Point it out and name that thing by its name”   alastairmoock.bandcamp.com/track/be-a-pain

Slim in Atlanta Cornelius Eady/Rough Magic   male vocal- slang "accent" piano, early jazz, N word The poem “Slim in Atlanta” by Sterling Allen Brown is a satire that humorously looks at race relations. In the poem, the protagonist discovers that blacks are forbidden to laugh in public and are lining up to laugh in the security of a telephone booth. The poem is a commentary on the absurdity of segregation laws and how they were used to control black people’s behavior. roughmagic.bandcamp.com/track/slim-in-atlanta 

Sterling Allen Brown, Poet

If We Must Die Robin Lane  female vocals, acoustic guitar, blues, If we must die, let us noble-y die is the from the most acclaimed poem by Harlem Renaissance writer, Claude McKay  (1922).    The poem was created in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities.  therobinlane.bandcamp.com/track/if-we-must-die

Claude McKay, Poet

Peace Begins in My Own Heart  Dan Berggren folk music male baritone, guitar, "I'm a poor wayfaring stranger traveling through this world of greed." "help my neighbor, do my part... peace begins in my own heart" danberggren.bandcamp.com/track/peace-begins-in-my-own-heart-2
 

Used to be White Ceili Rain   male vocals, rock, celtic instruments, "Strawberry Fields"-like, "It wasn't just my skin, it was the shape my mind was in--I used to be white." Writer Bob Halligan, Jr. was thinking of the American evolution regarding racial justice, and celebrating his own transformation, in a fairly sober way.  ceilirain.bandcamp.com/track/used-to-be-white

Peace on Earth  Steve Bonino  male vocals, slow, dreamlike, produced pop like Paul McCartney Beatles, Shins dream pop , wish for peace on earth.  it lists the bad times in the first verse and by the end of the second verse, it asks us all to dream.  stevebonino.bandcamp.com/track/peace-on-earth

Cognitive Dissonance   Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius  (two versions, studio and live)  male tenor vocals hard rock electric-violin & guitars People believing rumors, and losing friends due to politics and religions. “Hatred is taught.” 

Studio link: stratospheerius.bandcamp.com/track/cognitive-dissonance 

Live link: Cognitive Dissonance (Live at ProgStock) | Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius (bandcamp.com)