Blues singer Josh White doesn't mince words in this poignant protest song about segregationist policies in the Jim Crow South. It was featured on White's 1941 album "Southern Exposure," alongside a number of other anti-segregationist songs. While the music was highly controversial in the Souther...
People writing songs that voices never share And no one dare Disturb the sound of silence. "Fools" said I, "You do not know Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you, Take my arms that I might reach you." But my words like silent raindrops fell, And ...
Blues singer Josh White doesn't mince words in this poignant protest song about segregationist policies in the Jim Crow South. It was featured on White's 1941 album "Southern Exposure," alongside a number of other anti-segregationist songs. While the music was highly controversial in the Souther...
Condemning hatred and violence the whole world over, this veritable hit was widely perceived as a protest song against the Vietnam War. While the lyrics are devoid of curse words or drug references, they were nevertheless deemed obscene by many U.S. radio stations. Lines such as "you're o...
Sarcasm aside, all the problems are resolved more or less peacefully (or not resolved at all), and the film finishes with not one, but TWO terrible songs from the Country Bears in their last gig. Beary Barrington even gets to perform with his idols, despite having no practice with them ...
“I am filled with pride and joy as I witness the historic moment of having Egypt recognized internationally as the first country to have achieved this remarkable progress towards eliminating the disease,” said WHO Representative in Egypt, Dr Naeema Al Gasseer. “I have witnessed first-hand the...
folklore other than that Peace is one of the few on the album that is about her personal life (focusing on her lack of privacy and how that messes with her relationship) and she really loves the word epiphany and has a list of big words that she just likes and will toss into songs....
With songs like “L.A. Freeway,” Clark helped to introduce an emotional side to outlaw country, opening up the genre to not only buck Music Row expectations but its carefully curated masculinity, too. –Marissa R. Moss Listen: Guy Clark, “L.A. Freeway” Jerry Jeff Walker: “Pissin’...
While they speak of a hawk which had attacked Cuchulain earlier in the day, and which the old man claims is a supernatural being which carries a curse of discontent and violence, the Guardian of the Well seems to fall into a trance, arises, and begins to dance with hawk-like motions....
DCSovereign Sevenseries where they run a coffee shop. They would release two more albums,Maurice and IandPlay Each Morning Wild Queen. Bull and Shetterly moved to California which broke up the band and Garland formed Folk Underground which also had songs written by Neil Gaiman and Jane Yolen....