Name: Down & Out
Channel: orig. Ida Cox & B.Feldman add. J.Witherspoon M.Bix
Description: Nobody (?) knows you when you're on the skids... at least that's the premise. But when you can pick up the tab, your list of 'friends' grows rapidly.

Down & Out

Michael Bix Band

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Nobody (?) knows you when you're on the skids... at least that's the premise. But when you can pick up the tab, your list of 'friends' grows rapidly.

melodic lyrical political emphatic high energy protest opinion

Michael Bix Band

Progressive rock with heart, political, message, strong lyrics, good melodic singing, sometimes complex... always multi-layered/sometimes light-sometimes thick.

Michael Bix (and studio/stage bandmates) constructs songs around lyrics, beat and drone... bottom line - "where are the Emperor's clothes?" even when the emperor is Bix himself. No wierd scams, just solid songs about people using or used by power in strange and often unaccountable ways... unless there's a witness writing it down, and it's not altogether unaccountable anymore.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Vocals

Charts

Peak #145

Peak in subgenre #20

Author

orig. Ida Cox & B.Feldman add. J.Witherspoon M.Bix

Rights

Public Domain

Uploaded

September 11, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:44

Story behind the song

first recorded by Ida Cox (c. 1929) and then Bessie Smith, additional lyrics in a recording by Jimmy Witherspoon (c. 1954) and this one here as well.

Lyrics

readily available

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