Various Artists: Songs for Mahmud CD Track Listing
Various Artists
Songs for Mahmud (2004)
Dear listener,\n\nFor a variety of reasons much too dull and vague to bother explaining here, \nI figured I'd self-release my next CD, and I figured I'd do a solo acoustic \nthing. I had a few days off in early March, 2004, went into Sugar Hill Studios \nin Houston, Texas, spent a few hours there one evening and recorded these songs. \nThree of them appeared as "previously unreleased tracks" on the AK Press/Daemon \nRecords release, Behind the Barricades: the Best of David Rovics. Otherwise none \nof these songs have previously been released on CD. Most were written since my \n2003 release, Return (on Ever Reviled Records), was recorded.\n\nIn the listing of songs coming right up I've sought to make the song descriptions \nsuccinct and radio-friendly (as with the songs themselves). If you've got a radio \nshow or any other such thing like that or you know somebody who does who should \nhave this CD, please feel free to contact me and I'll happily send out as many \nas might be used for such purposes. If you go to my website, www.davidrovics.com, \nyou'll find my contact information by clicking where it says "contact me." If you \nclick on "radio" you'll find the emails for the labels that released my previous \ntwo CD's -- they're also happy to send copies to interested radio people and other \nfolks like that.\n\nWhether this CD gets "out there" depends pretty much entirely on the efforts of \nthe grassroots, the listeners, the activists and other folks who think this music \nhas value. In order to facilitate this process, I have audio files of all of the \nsongs from all of my recordings available for free download on my website. I also \nencourage the copying of this or any of my other recordings. (Of course, you can \nalso buy them on my website, retail or wholesale.) There you'll also find lyrics \nto everything, sheet music to most, and lots of other stuff. I encourage you to \ngo to my website and send me an email. If you want to get on my email list, \nthen you'll hear about my upcoming performances in your area and can tell your \nfriends about the next show...\n\nThe CD was mastered in Houston at Essential Sound. The graphics were done by \nMichael Rutzou. I wrote and played all the songs. As for the politics, \nI'll just let the songs do that and sign off here. I hope to see you on the \nroad and in the streets!\n\nLove and solidarity,\nDavid\n\nP.S.: As it turns out, Ever Reviled Records is also playing a role in this release, \nso it's kind of a self/ERR release, or something like that...
This folk cd contains 21 tracks and runs 65min 3sec.
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: Music
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: music songs tracks folk Folk
- Various Artists - David Rovics / Miami (03:02)
The FTAA protests in November, 2003 involved some of the most coordinated and unprovoked military-style assault on nonviolent protesters I've ever heard of or seen.\n - Various Artists - / Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL) (02:47)
Proof that there are some brilliant satirists who have infiltrated the government at it's highest levels, "OIL" is, in fact, the acronym first (briefly) used to name the invasion of Iraq, which was later changed to Operation Iraqi Freedom. - Various Artists - / The Face of Victory (03:42)
Welcome to the next Oklahoma City (and many other developments). The veterans of war are returning. - Various Artists - / Song the Songbird Sings (03:34)
In memory of Mahmud al-Qayyed, age 10, killed by Israeli occupation forces for the crime of catching songbirds in the Gaza Strip. - Various Artists - / They're Building a Wall (03:25)
From Warsaw to the West Bank, the parallels are absolutely chilling. - Various Artists - / Who Would Jesus Bomb? (03:50)
My musical response to an encounter with some rightwing evangelical types at a supermarket in Houston. - Various Artists - / Evening News (02:13)
I watched "CBC National" one night in a hotel in New Brunswick. It was such outrageous propaganda, I had to write a song about that one evening's newscast. CBC is right up there with Foxhole News, but I just wasn't expecting it to be quite that bad, so it - Various Artists - / Here at the End of the World (03:09)
The planet is still dying, incidentally. Very rapidly, in the scheme of things. - Various Artists - / Used to be a City (03:05)
A song about a post-industrial US city. I had Danbury, Connecticut in mind. Change a couple of lines and it could have been about most cities in the US. - Various Artists - / More Gardens Song (03:04)
Ariel from More Gardens in NYC said I should write a song about this wonderful network of people, so I did. They go around planting gardens with local communities on vacant land that somebody ostensibly "owns." - Various Artists - / Butcher for Hire (03:03)
John Timoney. Police chief during any mass convergence these days, it seems, from Philly to Miami to Boston, and even an advisor to the NYPD during the same summer. When the heads of nonviolent protesters need to be cracked to protect democracy, Timony se - Various Artists - / Trafalgar Square (02:29)
When the statue in the anti-war/anti-Bush protests in London, November, 2003 was toppled, it was a beautiful sight. And more authentically popular than the toppling of that statue in Baghdad, I might add. - Various Artists - / Song for the SOA #2 (02:40)
The community that can be found outside the gates of Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia every November is a beautiful thing, despite the reason for the semi-annual formation of that community (the US Army's School of the Assassins). This song celebrates th - Various Artists - / All The Ghosts That Walk This Earth (04:09)
If you look closely, you'll see them. They're everywhere. This is about one named Eric - Various Artists - / Korea (03:12)
During the US war against the people of North Korea in the 1950's, one in five people in North Korea were killed, and every structure was destroyed by bombs dropped by the US in the biggest bombing campaign in history up to that time.\n - Various Artists - / I Wanna Go Home (02:53)
For the Palestinian refugees, who, at the core of the whole thing, just want to go home. - Various Artists - / Moron (02:15)
An ode to GW, and to the Canadian government minister who had a brief moment of straightforward honesty when she called him what he most obviously is. (Others say he's a sociopath rather than a moron. I disagree. I firmly believe he is, in fact, both.)\n - Various Artists - / The War is Over (03:13)
GW said so, from atop an aircraft carrier, so it must be true.\n - Various Artists - / The Battle of Blair Mountain (04:15)
I read the book by Lon Savage, Thunder In the Mountains, and wrote this song, about the biggest battle in the West Virginia Coal Mine War of 1920-21.\n - Various Artists - / Oppositional Defiance Disorder (02:22)
It's not us that have psychiatric problems, by and large -- ODD, ADD, SAD, etc. -- it's society that causes anxiety and depression. I had young Alex of Ever Reviled Records in mind, but it could be about...you!\n - Various Artists - / What if You Knew (02:27)
What would you do if you were seeing the truth every day on TV, rather than neoliberal/neoconservative, pro-war propaganda?
