rearranging and writing new lyrics for the traditional spiritual, inspired by the mostly terrible Supreme Court decision from the term ending July, 2023
According to Liz Cheney, a Trump friendly congressperson who agreed to sign off on a slate of false electors was heard to complain, "the things we do for Orange Jesus."
I've come to love the harmonic changes, especially the last 8 measures, of "Stella by Starlight." That tune inspired this original instrumental in yet another of my "sorta bossa" archive.
A minor rant about being voted down on my suggestion that we play Electionanigans, one of my political tunes, at a public, sidewalk chalk festival, the band's first public engagement since Leap Year Day (Feb. 29, 2020)
A lyrical rewrite and solo re-recording of a tune from the 1970's called "Political Silence", a reaction to the feeble response of our poor excuse for a president to Covid19.
With no disrepect to Sharona, it's not a beer, typewriter or celestial event, just a light instrumental to help us chill through a national health emergency.
I got the musical idea for this song while playing a grand piano in a rehearsal room at the old music building at my college alma mater (I guess I had been listening to classical music, and was intrigued, I suppose, by the harmonic ideas of Bach.)
A tale of avoidable woe, recasting the earlier versions of, respectively, Four More Years and Eight Long Years. With a nod to my memory from the early 1970's of Ken Price doing his spot on impression of Walter Brennan as Mick Jagger singing Angie.