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Talkin Talent-Ban Blues
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Skipper J Robinson, Esq
Greetings. It's a pleasure. Sorry about the poor quality and unprofessionality of the recordings and the performances on the recordings. I don't consider these the best I can do by any means, so I hope you won't judge me too harshly. These are pretty much just the takes I got right after writing the songs, recorded hastily so I could move on to something else. I've been trying to write as many songs as possible over the past months. I just wanted to get the ideas out there in the hopes that somebody would like to hear them. I promise I'll do better someday and maybe you'll like to hear those. Please tell me if there's a song here that you'd like to hear a better take of, because that would give me a chance to focus on one. Feel free to tell me I suck, too. I have a fan from Minnesota that keeps me going. No idea who it is.
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Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
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#2,525 in subgenre Peak #34
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Peak #416
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Skipper
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Skipper
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June 26, 2007
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MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 3:53
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well i set shop and i was selling my wares picking my ukelele in peace but then i noticed some glares from some folks in uniforms bluer than the water in Dade county policewoman said you can't sell art on the streets- this is arcata- i said al-qaeda?! she said no arcata i said thank god glad we don't have terrorists walking among us here in the U-S of A she said by god, me too now if you'll please step back in your vehicle and move on through: there's a talent-ban here i said a taliban?! she said no a talent-ban i said oh, whew, praise jesus i thought you said you had a group of terrorists living here like a big old klan i said thank the lord i was mistaken i said you're doing a wonderful job, lady keeping the streets clean of radicals and facists.... people who listen to panafrican music some people are so obtuse, you know, i said some police might have had my head in a noose but you arcata police are not nearly as bad as those cops back in Poland in 1942 whew- thank god it's a free country they said it was all part of a free-market economy but i said, how can that be when the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder isn't free to sell things to people to earn money on the streets? or to camp in vehicles to sleep they said well you could be a pusher i said i aint got no dope or amphetamines but from the look of your eyes, mr cop, you look to be on speed... or maybe it was coffee and donuts, maybe you're high on maseline, do you put your wife in handcuffs when she sleeps? man, you wonder why they call it a beat i said what's a talent-ban anyway? she said a talent-ban means that no one can be on the streets that isn't a licensed vender, a native-born local, or their direct decender you mean decendent? i said she said, that's right, thank you, i never read much i said well you touch on an interesting thing you know my grandfather was aboriginal to these parts used to sing tribal songs about it does that free me of the talent ban and put me in your good graces? she said -no. maybe they understand what aboriginal means in other places- but not here, so shove off. so i shoved off and went to get some sleep but then at 5:15 in the morning before the buttcrack a dawn the stillness broke early, and i lost my dream of zs and someone was fawning in a reflection in my window- policeman said there was no camping in your vehicle in arcata- i said, al-qaeda? i didn't know they still existed, thought they got bombed off the face of the earth by our boys over there cross the pacific don't want no terrorists in america, that's for sure so i enlisted in the green party and the aclu
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