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The Battle of Stockton

The Battle of Stockton
2012
When Our Grandfathers Said No

The Battle of Stockton, took place on 10 September 1933 at the Market Cross in the High Street of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England. It was a clash between members of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) and anti-fascist demonstrators from the small local Communist Party and National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM).
It was Sunday morning in Stockton town
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/21 - 13:00
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Iuventa

Iuventa
2023
tiny notes

t ends with one last unaccompanied number, Iuventa, which is about the ship belonging to [Jugend Rettet, a Berlin non-governmental organisation dedicated to rescuing drowning people in the Mediterranean. To date she’s saved some 14,000 but was seized in 2017, the crew now awaiting trial accused of colluding with people smugglers. It’s a quietly rousing anthemic reminder that we are one world and one planet, echoing the refrain from the album opener as they declare “We’re not the clothes we wear/We’re not the scars we bear/We are the song we share”.
brightyoungfolk.com
In my dream I see (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/21 - 12:35
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The Surgeon

The Surgeon
2023
tiny notes

There’s one final real life story of an inspirational figure. Cooney was commissioned to write The Surgeon, a slow waltzing ballad with sweeping strings and sparse, plangent, piano, for the BBC’s 21st Century Folk project, in tribute to David Nott, a British surgeon who, putting his Christian principles into action, has volunteered to work in many war zones. This song is about a time in Aleppo where he found himself operating on “a man in distress/With a bullet hole wound torn in his chest” only to discover when six men “with knives and machine guns and uniforms black” burst in and watched as he worked, that he was saving the life of a young ISIS fighter. Asked later if he regretted saving him, his reply was no, “for life it is precious and life it is rare/And may my arms always be able to bear”.
brightyoungfolk.com
In the crumbling city a hospital stood
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/21 - 12:33
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Tim Burman

Tim Burman
2023
tiny notes

In 2018 Rachel Robertson asked us to write a song for her brother, Tim Burman. Tim was one of 270 people killed in the Lockerbie bombing on 21st December 1988 when flight PanAm 103 broke up above the small Scottish town killing all those on board and 11 people on the ground. He was 24 and on his way to New York to spend Christmas with his girlfriend, Rose. Rachel said she didn’t see it as being a sad song but a love song and a song to keep the Lockerbie families' campaign for justice alive.
genius
It's a scene from a future that never could be (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/21 - 12:26
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Trespassers

Trespassers
2023
tiny notes

Trespassers is the last of the 17 songs written for our theatre show The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff. It’s the story of Johnny’s participation in acts of civil disobedience in the 1930s to advocate the Right to Roam – that ‘the right of walking was free’. The most famous trespass took place at Kinder Scout, Derbyshire in April 1932 and led, eventually, to the creation of the National Parks.

The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff è un concept album preso da uno spettacolo di teatro folk che narra la storia di Johnny Longstaff, eroe della "working Class", l'avventura di un ragazzo che inizia mendicando per le strade arriva in Spagna nelle Brigate internazionali, passando per la partecipazione alle Hunger Marches e alla battaglia di Cable Street

Any Bread? - Carrying the Coffin - Hostel Strike - Cable Street - Robson’s Song - Ta-Ra to Tooting - Noddy - The Great Tomorrow - Ay Carmela - Paella - No Hay Pan - Trench Tales - Lewis Clive - David Guest - Over the Ebro - The Valley of Jarama - Trespassers (da tiny notes)
We are the bold trespassing lads and lasses, o so free
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/21 - 12:22
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Lyra

Lyra
2023
tiny notes

Lyra McKee was an investigative journalist from Belfast. She was killed whilst observing a riot in Derry, Northern Ireland in April 2019. She was 29. In her 2017 TED talk she spoke movingly of the moment she came out to her mum. ‘Don’t tell me there’s no hope,’ she said. Her family are still campaigning for #Justice4Lyra. The first three lines are taken from the traditional song The Croppy Boy.
genius
Was early, early in the spring
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/21 - 12:15
Song Itineraries: Conflicts in Ireland
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Richard Moore

Richard Moore
2023
tiny notes

Richard Moore grew up in Derry, Northern Ireland. He described his childhood as growing up in a war zone. When he was 10 years old in 1972 he was hit by a rubber bullet on his way home from school. He was blinded for life. With the help of his devoted family and community he rebuilt his life and went on to found Children in Crossfire, a charity which has for 30 years helped vulnerable young people in developing nations. In 2007 he found, befriended and forgave the soldier who fired the bullet. The Dalai Lama wrote ‘I preach forgiveness, Richard Moore lives it.’
genius
I was born in Derry by the waters of the Foyle
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/21 - 11:58
Song Itineraries: Conflicts in Ireland
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Jack Merritt’s Boots

Jack Merritt’s Boots
2023
tiny notes

Jack Merritt ‘lived and breathed fire in pursuit of a better world for all humanity’. He worked for an organisation called Learning Together which put Cambridge undergraduates alongside prison inmates to share their unique perspectives on justice. On 29th November 2019 he was killed, along with his colleague Saskia Jones, in the Fishmonger’s Hall terror attack. He was 25. His dad, David Merritt, wrote an incredible tribute to his son in the Guardian a week later, urging people to ‘borrow his intelligence, share his drive, feel his passion, burn with his anger, and extinguish hatred with his kindness’ and to ‘walk through the door he has booted down with his black Doc Martens’.
genius

Jack was proud. Jack was absorbingly intelligent. Jack was fiercely loyal. Jack loved music, art, eating good food with his family, and having more than one pint with his mates. Oh, and in... (Continues)
Jack Merritt wore Doc Marten boots on his tireless feet
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/21 - 11:48
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Stop the War (Fight for Love)

Stop the War (Fight for Love)
[2023]
Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel::
Hannes Braun & Anna “Ace” Brunner

Performed by / Interpreti / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
Rockers United

Album: Stop The War (Fight For Love)

Rock Antenne, la principale rete radiofonica rock nei paesi di lingua tedesca è intervenuta nel 2023 per prendere posizione contro la guerra in corso in Ucraina. Ha coprodotto il disco “Stop The War (Fight For Love)” con un gruppo di noti artisti metal che per l’occasione hanno formato una band con il nome Rockers United . Ne fanno parte gli artisti Doro, Nico Sallach (Electric Callboy), Hannes Braun (Kissin' Dynamite), Nic Maeder (Gotthard), Alea (Saltatio Mortis), Guernica Mancini e Anna “Ace” Brunner (League of Distortion & Exit Eden).
Tutti i proventi del progetto sono stati devoluti all’organizzazione Straßekinder e.V., che sostiene i bambini nelle zone di guerra a livello locale come parte del suo programma “Aiuti d’emergenza all’Ucraina”.
[Riccardo Gullotta]
You wake up with a sadness within (Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2024/8/21 - 00:10
Song Itineraries: Wars in Ukraine
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The Dying Hobo

Anonymous
A parody of Bingen on the Rhine.
From Folk-Songs of the South, Cox
Recorded by Doc Watson
DT #644
Laws H3
@hobo @train @death
filename[ DYINHOBO
RG

Mudcat Cafe' 1998 - 2024
Behind a Western water tank a dying hobo lay,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/15 - 19:32
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Hobos on Parade

Hobos on Parade
Shannon Wright - Hobos on Parade - 1999.

Shannon Wright.
La primula di Jacksonville.
Polistrumentista, vocalist e cantautrice, Shannon Wright è una delle rivelazioni della nuova scena folk-rock americana. Il suo stile è un raffinato ibrido tra rock e musica da camera. Ma le sue canzoni nascono tutte "dal profondo delle viscere". 
OndaRock.
You eloped with a bout of slurs
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/13 - 16:36
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The Last of the Hobo Kings

The Last of the Hobo Kings
"The Last Of The Hobo Kings" by Mary Gauthier
Album: Between Daylight and Dark (2007)

Mary Gauthier (New Orleans, 11 marzo 1962) è una cantautrice statunitense di genere alternative country.
Steam Train Maury died last night his wife Wanda by his side
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/12 - 17:16
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Fire Must Cease

Fire Must Cease
2023
Fire Must Cease

Scritto, registrato e prodotto da Adriano Bono per la Adrian Good Records.

Questo nuovo singolo nasce su invito e a supporto della campagna di finanziamento avviata da I.A.F.G., International Artists For Gaza, un collettivo di artisti da tutto il mondo che sta pubblicando diverse compilation su Bandcamp, l'intero ricavato delle quali andrà a finanziare le attività dell'associazione Gaza Freestyle a supporto dei bambini e civili Palestinesi.

La musica, nella migliore tradizione del Reggae, diventa così strumento di solidarietà e di riflessione, oltre che un forte invito all'opinione pubblica affinché si faccia pressione sui governi occidentali sull'attuazione di un immediato "cessate il fuoco" e sull'abbandono della linea dell'appoggio incondizionato al Governo Israeliano.

Enjoy the Music!
LET'S STAY HUMAN!
We are all Palestinians
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/12 - 11:09
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Bloodbath in Sant’ Anna

Bloodbath in Sant’ Anna
12 agosto 2024
Bloodbath in Sant’ Anna

Music & Lyrics by Alessandro Baccelle

Il 12 agosto 2024, il gruppo veneto Nabla Operator uscirà con il loro potente singolo e video ‘Bloodbath In Sant’Anna’, un tributo commovente e profondo agli eventi tragici di 80 anni fa a Sant’Anna di Stazzema.
Death came from the woods
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/12 - 10:48
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Hobo Jungle

Hobo Jungle
Hobo Jungle – The Band - 1975
Compositore: Robbie Robertson.

The Band was a Canadian-American rock group, consisting of Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm. The members first met when they joined Ronnie Hawkins‘ Ontario-based group “The Hawks.” After separating, they were picked up by Bob Dylan for his 1965 US Tour, and then for the 1966 World Tour. Their relationship with Dylan helped the group move to New York, where they collaborated with him on music that would end up becoming some of the most sought-after bootlegs of the time; namely, the 1975-released project known as The Basement Tapes. They followed up these sessions with the release of their debut album, 1968’s Music From Big Pink.
There was a chill that night in the hobo jungle
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/11 - 20:34
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Cardboard Box City

Cardboard Box City
Cardboard Box City -The Levellers - 1990

The Levellers are an English rock band, founded in 1988 and based in Brighton, England. The name of the band is drawn from the Levellers, a 17th-century radical democracy movement founded in England during the English Civil War.
Have you seen them in every station
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/10 - 17:34
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Tupilak

Tupilak
TUPILAK
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/8/10 - 11:49
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Homeless Brother

Homeless Brother - Don Mc Lean - 1974

The song tells the story of a homeless man whom the protagonist calls his friend. The protagonist wonders where homeless people like his friend go, where they can escape the police and feel free. The lyrics describe the hardships of life on the streets, the envy of those with a roof over their heads, and the reality of poverty and the harshness of the rich. The chorus encourages one to live life to the fullest, despite the difficulties, and to cherish the friendship with the homeless brother.

The story of a song: Homeless Brother - Don McLean
https://radio.callmefred.com/en/song_story/homeless-brother-don-mclean/

I was walking by the graveyard late last Friday night
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/9 - 20:40
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Borders

Borders
[2015]
Testo e musica / Lyrics and music / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel:
Rigolò

Album: Tornado

By refusing to abide by a wall, map, property line, border, identity document, or legal regime, mobile people upset the state's schemes of exclusion, control, and violence. They do this simply by moving.
[Reece Jones, Geographer, from “Violent Borders”]

Rifiutando di rispettare un muro, una carta geografica, un tracciato di proprietà, un confine, un documento di identità o un regime legale, le persone in movimento sconvolgono gli schemi di esclusione, di controllo e di violenza dello Stato. Fanno ciò in modo semplice: spostandosi.
[Reece Jones, geografo, da “Confini violenti”]
White fear
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2024/8/9 - 12:35

Homeless

Homeless – Guy Clark - 2002
Fonte: Musixmatch
Compositori: Guy Clark / Ray Stephenson
There's cardboard sign old and bent, says "Friend for Life 25¢"
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/9 - 10:40
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A Tramp on the Street

A Tramp on the Street
Hank Williams Sr. ( 1923 -1953 )
Only a tramp was Lazarus sad fate
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/8 - 17:24

Homeless Wassail

HOMELESS WASSAIL - Ian Robb - 1998
As sung by Finest Kind
From : The Mudcat Cafè
Subject: RE: Homeless Songs - RTim - 06 Aug 24

Il wassailing è un'antica tradizione del folclore natalizio inglese che prende il nome dalla coppa del wassail ( "buona salute" ), contenente una bevanda calda a base di birra o sidro con spezie e mele tostate. La tradizione conosce due varianti, una consistente nella benedizione degli alberi da frutto e degli animali da stalla con la coppa del wassail, l'altra consistente nel girare per le case con la coppa del wassail intonando canti natalizi.
"Wassail, wassail, all over the town,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/8 - 11:58
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Great Heart

Great Heart
Credo che il titolo sia sufficiente per descrivere questa meravigliosa canzone........abbiamo bisogno....si abbiamo bisogno di un grande cuore!!!
The world is full of strange behaviour
(Continues)
Contributed by Carlo Paredi 2024/8/7 - 16:32
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Hiroshima Day

On Hiroshima Day we remember the massive devastation inflicted by a nuclear attack on civilians. But in so many ways the impact of war on people's lives and on the environment is like many mini Hiroshimas happening in so many places so many times.
Out on the streets once again
(Continues)
Contributed by Michael Cox 2024/8/6 - 11:12
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Hobo Bill

Hobo Bill
Hobo Bill - Cisco Houston

The Folkways Years, 1944-1961

As performed by Cisco Houston
Written by Waldo Lafayette O’ Neal (1908–1980) specifically for Jimmie Rodgers & first recorded by him November 13, 1929.

Lyrics
Yodels
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/4 - 18:26
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Oh! Oh! Oh! I Want to Go Home

Oh! Oh! Oh! I Want to Go Home
[recording :1919]
Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel:
Harry Castling , Arthur John Mills

Performed by / Interpreti / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
Harry Fay

Album: Oh! It's A Lovely War (Vol 4)

Fu una canzone in voga tra le truppe britanniche nella I Guerra Mondiale. Risalire agli autori e al cantante non è stato immediato. Proponiamo qualche nota biografica di quest’ultimo,Harry Fay, per contribuire alla sua memoria.
Henry Thomas Fahey (22 maggio 1878 – 4 settembre 1956) è stato un cantante e comico inglese che ha registrato canzoni popolari tra il 1900 e la fine degli anni '20. Nacque a Liverpool in una famiglia di origine irlandese. Si esibì sul palco nei music hall, prima di incidere dischi per tutti gli anni '10 e '20. Registrò per la Zonophone Records.
Tra le canzoni popolari che registrò ci furono "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?", "By the... (Continues)
The anchor caught his load,
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2024/8/4 - 11:33
Song Itineraries: World War I (1914-1918)
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Hobo Blues

Hobo Blues
Hobo Blues - Cisco Houston

The Cisco Houston Collection 1944-61 - Released 2023

The words don't look like much when removed from Cisco's wonderful singing and playing. This is a splendid performance, worthy of being remastered and certainly among the very best of the Vanguard Years. The same song appears with Woody singing on Muleskinner Blues, Volume 2 of the Asch Recordings, with a different first verse but the same wonderful guitar. He must have liked this tune, for he plays it with a gusto that is a treat.

Cisco Houston: Hobo Blues: Lyrics
You can wash my jumpers and starch my overalls
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/4 - 10:03
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Cryderville Jail

Cryderville Jail ( Traditional )

As performed by Cisco Houston ( 1918 – 1961 )

Appears on: LP The Asch Recordings, 1939 to 1945 - Vol. 2

A fine performance that sounds as if it is based on intimate knowledge. The downtrodden get an even shorter end of the stick, with the corrupt lawmen taking advantage.
Cryderville* Jail, ain't no jail at all,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/8/2 - 19:47
Song Itineraries: From World Jails
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Nu alrest lebe ich mir werde

Nu alrest lebe ich mir werde
Youtube
NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, DO I LIVE WORTHILY (Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2024/8/2 - 18:50
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Kâtibim

Anonymous
Kâtibim
WHEN GOING TO ÜSKÜDAR
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2024/7/29 - 23:40
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Un panino

Un panino
Every now and then I look out
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/7/27 - 11:31
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Per poco o per niente

Per poco o per niente
They come they hate they beat they laugh (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/7/27 - 11:27
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Terra madre

Terra madre
Hear them calling us (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/7/27 - 11:23
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Speak Out

Speak Out
(2019)
Album: Leylines
feat Ani DiFranco
Who are you?
(Continues)
2024/7/18 - 18:17
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بلحه

بلحه
"I don't know what I have written, but let's wish it is in some human language"
Date
(Continues)
2024/7/18 - 00:06
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Pentangle: Light Flight

Pentangle: Light Flight
[1969]
Bert Jansch - Danny Thompson - Jacqui McShee - John Renbourn - Terry Cox
Album / Albumi: Basket of Light

Ma Bert Jansch e John Renbourn si saranno fatti anche loro, verso il 1969, l’operazione alla cataratta…? Sì, perché questa canzone, piuttosto famosa, sembra descrivere alla perfezione ciò che “vedevo” mentre, due pomeriggi fa, l’oftalmologo mi stava demolendo il cristallino vecchio per mettercene uno nuovo e restituirmi alla luce. E’ stata una mezz’ora di visioni bellissime, con un caleidoscopio di colori mai visti (specialmente un turchese di una tonalità che non scorderò mai). E poi, sempre come dice la canzone, sono svanite le nebbie avvolgenti nelle quali ho vissuto gli ultimi mesi...insomma sì, sembrava scritta proprio per me anche se ho il sospetto, neanche tanto vago, che i bravi Pentangle non stessero descrivendo un’operazione di cataratta oculare, ma un bel viaggetto... (Continues)
Let's get away, you say, find a better place,
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2024/7/17 - 11:27
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The Wayfaring Stranger [Libby Prison Hymn]

Anonymous
The Wayfaring Stranger [Libby Prison Hymn]
[XIX sec.]
Lyrics and music /Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel:
anonimo

Performed by / Interpreti / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
1. Joan Baez
Album : Poor Wayfaring Stranger

2. Paul Robeson
Album : The Power And The Glory

3. Pete Seeger
Album : Wayfaring Stranger

4. Johnny Cash
Album : American III: Solitary Man

5. Libby Prison Minstrels

6. Burl Ives
Album : The Wayfaring Stranger

7. Jos Slovick
OST: 1917

E’ una canzone folk e anche un gospel del XIX secolo. Fu pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1858 nella raccolta The Christian songster : a collection of hymns and spiritual songs, usually sung at camp, prayer, and social meetings, and revivals of religion ; designed for all denominations a cura di di Joseph Bever. Figura al n. 23 della raccolta, a pag. 34. Il testo si discosta in modo significativo dalle versioni diffuse in seguito. Anche il... (Continues)
I am a poor wayfaring stranger
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2024/7/10 - 11:32
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The Old Pack Mule

The Old Pack Mule
The Old Pack Mule
da "Ship To Shore"
2024

È una canzone sia con reminiscenze mediorientali che spunti musicali europei del ‘600. Ci si ritrova immersi tra le scene di un naufragio nel mezzo di miserabili attualità, tra le pagine di una delle tante carestie che si sono succedute nei secoli. A osservarla da lontano col cannocchiale, parrebbe galleggiare tra le vecchie ballate folk del mondo anglosassone, ma quando raggiunge la riva ti rendi conto da vicino che la sua temporalità è confusa; che sciacallaggio, sfruttamento, ingratitudine e ingiustizia stanno sui giornali di stamattina. Come in ogni disco di Thompson, l’ambientazione gotica e arcana oscilla tra Bertolt Brecht e Charles Dickens, un po’ meno fosca delle canzoni iniziali, ma sempre tra le più affascinanti che si possano ascoltare in giro.

(estratto da Richard THOMPSON: Ship to Shore - Terre Celtiche Blog di Flavio Poltronieri)
The old pack mule,
(Continues)
Contributed by Flavio Poltronieri 2024/7/7 - 09:11
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Colors

Colors
(2019)
dal primo album eponimo della band di soul psichedelico texana.

Le canzoni più belle contro la guerra sono sempre quelle che non parlano di guerra, ma parlano di vita e celebrano la diversità e la fratellanza tra esseri umani. E questa famosissima canzone dei Black Pumas rientra sicuramente in questa categoria.

I colori di cui parla la canzone possono riferirsi al colore della pelle di tutte le sorelle e i fratelli di una sola razza, quella umana, ma possono anche rappresentare la riconquistata gioia di vivere. una volta scrollate di dosso le foglie secche di un momento di crisi o di depressione. In ogni caso una grande canzone di pace, di tolleranza e un inno alla vita.
I woke up to the morning sky first
(Continues)
Contributed by Lorenzo 2024/7/6 - 00:16
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A Dear John Letter

A Dear John Letter
[1953]

Lyrics and music /Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel:
Fuzzy Owen, Billy Barton, Lewis Talley

Performed by / Interpreti / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky

Album: A Dear John Letter

Una lettera “Caro John” é un modo di dire, diffuso negli Stati Uniti nel secolo scorso, per indicare una situazione in cui una donna informa il partner che la loro relazione è finita. L’origine della locuzione risale alla seconda guerra mondiale ; fu in voga nell’ambiente militare durante la guerra di Corea e quella nel Vietnam.

Tra i guasti prodotti dalle guerre figurano anche le interruzioni del rapporto sentimentale con i militari lontani per mesi o anni al fronte da parte di donne decise a intraprendere una nuova relazione in patria. Il generale d’acciaio George S. Patton fu l’”eroe” che ordinò il massacro di Biscari in Sicilia: “Se si arrendono... (Continues)
Dear John oh how I hate to write
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2024/7/5 - 00:06
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Third World Man

Third World Man
Johnny è un ragazzo, ma la guerra lo ha costretto ad essere un UOMO del Terzo Mondo; è stato arruolato in un esercito. Non potrà più avere una stanza dei giochi come un bambino, ma la sua stanza dei giochi ora sarà un bunker. È costretto a mobilitarsi all'alba, a comando, ogni volta che gli viene ordinato di farlo - si accovaccia e striscia come un soldato per evitare di essere colpito; sotto il suo travestimento, il travestimento da soldato, rimane un ragazzino. Razzi e bombe come fuochi d'artificio - purtroppo è un uomo del terzo mondo. Le strade forse torneranno sicure, e torneranno gli occhi del ragazzo - ma ora per lui è l' "era del terzo mondo".
Johnny's playroom
(Continues)
Contributed by Davide Miani 2024/7/4 - 17:38
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The Ballad of John Riley

The Ballad of John Riley
2023
Ribelli (camminando con Pino Cacucci)

Ognuno di noi ha un libro nel cuore. Il mio è “Quelli del San Patricio”. Ho letto questo libro 2 volte, la prima a San Antonio in Texas e la seconda in Irlanda, i luoghi in cui è ambientato il romanzo. Io e Pino ci siamo conosciuti così, quando timidamente gli ho mandato una foto da Clifden del monumento che il governo Messicano ha dedicato a John Riley .

E a Clifden ho scritto questo brano ispirato alle atmosfere Irish, con tanto di Bouzouky e Tin Whistle.

Grazie Pino, un saluto con la mano sul cuore

John Riley was a man
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 + Riccardo Sgavetti 2024/7/4 - 16:24
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King Snake

King Snake
[2021]
In "CRAWLER"
Fa il paio con Gift Horse...

“King Snake” is about accepting that you’re nothing, and that being a beautiful thing. It’s almost Buddhist, like, you are objectively nothing. Right? Nothing objectively exists. Don’t suddenly carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. It’s going to be alright. There’s also that feeling after you’ve had two beers where nothing matters, you know? It’s supposed to be celebratory, whether it’s because you like getting the beers in or you like the idea of being nothing."

— Joe Talbot, Consequence Track-By-Track
I'm the duke of nothing (*)
(Continues)
2024/7/1 - 20:25
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Gift Horse

Gift Horse
[2024]
Da "TANGK"

Un brano ormai famigerato, fantomatico, ferocemente antisistema e, soprattutto antimonarchico, come solo i Sex Pistols hanno saputo fare...

"The coronation was happening, and it was pissing me off. Because as an anti-monarchist, I don’t like occupying other countries, an unelected leader, the House Of Lords… As soon as you have a kid, those beliefs become amplified with a sense of severe protection. It just highlights the dangerous, apathetic stance we have on such oppressive fucking systems within our country, and I want to talk about that through love – not anger, not hate, not disdain. Just: my daughter’s my king, he’s not my king. Tell me different! Prove to me different! You can’t.”
(Joe Talbot, da un'intervista su Mojo)
Sinew exploding from chrome hooves
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2024/7/1 - 20:03
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I'm Scum

I'm Scum
[2017]
Nell'album "Joy as an Act of Resistance", pubblicato nel 2018
I'm council housed and violent (Continues)
2024/6/30 - 14:38
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Danny Nedelko

Danny Nedelko
[2017]
Nell'album "Joy as an Act of Resistance", pubblicato nel 2018


“Danny Nedelko”, la lezione sempre valida degli IDLES
di Luisa Cassarà, aprile 15, 2020

“Fear leads to panic, panic leads to pain
Pain leads to anger, anger leads to hate”.
(“Danny Nedelko”)

Se fossi una persona pigra, basterebbe questa citazione per spiegare la ragione che mi spinge a parlare degli IDLES. Non ricordo né come né quando li ho scoperti, ma posso dire con certezza che, da quel momento, non ne ho più potuto fare a meno. Hanno esattamente tutto ciò che serve per affrontare la bizzarra epoca moderna: sono fortemente arrabbiati, non hanno paura di prendere una posizione e disprezzano la divisione del mondo in categorie. Tutte qualità, queste, estremamente apprezzabili già in tempi normali, figuriamoci durante una pandemia.

Questa band di Bristol si è conquistata il suo posto speciale nel panorama mondiale,... (Continues)
My blood brother is an immigrant
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2024/6/30 - 14:10
Song Itineraries: Fear: mass control weapon




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