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David Rovics
DOWNLOAD BIG RED SESSIONS!
My new recording is available only via the above link, by donation or for free!
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Hope to see you on the road and in the streets!
My new recording is available only via the above link, by donation or for free!
3 things you can do:
1) Share these songs with your friends. (Especially your friends who host radio shows and organize festivals.)
2) Volunteer to organize a show next time I'm in your area. (I tour regularly on four continents, so there's at least a decent chance I'll be there soon...)
3) Drop a few coins in my Virtual Guitar Case ? click the "donate" button below!
Hope to see you on the road and in the streets!
Music
We're gonna stay right here.
A SoundClick Top 10 song
Bradley Manning is a political prisoner in the USA. This song is one of 13 from my latest studio recording, Big Red Sessions. Download the rest of the recording at www.davidrovics.com!
A SoundClick Top 10 song
I was reading Riki Ott's fantastic book, One Last Drop, about the Exxon Valdez disaster, just as the oil began to gush off the Louisiana coast. This song is about a particular incident in 1993 when fishermen blockaded the harbor.
A SoundClick Top 10 song
My latest in a series of pirate-themed songs. I was thinking about what I'd like to do to the oil industry's executive officers and larger stockholders.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
Hearing the stories of out-of-work fishing communities in Louisiana, thinking about the history of the Cajun people, and how the refugees from Canada are now becoming refugees again.
A SoundClick Top 50 song
They massacred unarmed activists trying to bring basic necessities in to help alleviate the suffering of a besieged, hungry population.
Most of those who survived the war spent the rest of their lives serving humanity in one way or another. The few survivors are now in their nineties.
I wrote this song after the last high school massacre. I don't remember where it was, but it followed the typical pattern ostracized teenage boy finally snaps and shoots pretty, popular girls who tend to ignore kids like him. There will be more.
During the Nazi holocaust in Europe there was a Japanese Schindler, and his name was Sempo Sugihara. I heard about him through my friend Ben Manski, who is alive today because of this man and his wife Yukiko.
This song is about a particularly legendary dog who I may have met, not sure, but in any case his name is Loukanikos and he has been photographed at every riot in Athens over the past two years, always right up in the faces of the police.
After reading Ten Men Dead (great book) I had to write a song about one of the hunger strikers and this is what happened.
This song represents the most fundamental message I and others like me are trying to communicate in union we can achieve anything.
An anti-love song for a lonely hotel room.
A SoundClick Top 10 song
A song for Dr. George Tiller, assassinated May 31st, 2009. I read about it in the Guardian after arriving on a flight from London.
A fabulous, true story and the defining moment of Australian labor history. There were people involved from 23 nations, actually, but 20 fit better in the chorus. Never trust a songwriter for accuracy of details...
A song for my friend Brad Will who was shot to death on October 27th, 2006 with a camera in his hand, filming for NYC Indymedia on the barricades in Oaxaca City.
Another poem for New Orleans.
Fairly self-explanatory...
Shays' Rebellion was a pivotal moment in US history. As a result we got the Bill of Rights, among other things.
It's a somewhat complicated case which I tried to sum up in a poem (which I originally thought might be a song). Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns are innocent men who have been in prison for many years already, for a crime they didn't commit.
There are many more fascinating and terrible details to the story than you'll find in this little ditty.
If you're gonna burn your bridges you might as well bomb them, too.
Henry Ward Beecher was a well-known minister in New England, but was better known internationally as the designer of the state-of-the-art Sharps rifle. He'd ship his rifles out to the abolitionists in Kansas in wooden crates marked "Bibles."
Luis Posada Carriles is a mass murderer with quite a bit more innocent blood on his hands than your average member of Al Qaeda, but he's not in prison, he's a free man in Miami, one of the many rightwing Cuban terrorists who are beloved by the US gov
A song for one of the hundreds of would-be Mexican immigrants who die of thirst on the US-Mexico border every year.