Dave is Hearing:
Friday, July 29th, 2011
We’re pre-recorded this weekend so I can be sure that what I wrote down is what actually plays. We usually change several pieces of music every week–pieces get removed because we’re out of time (talked too much, or I miscalculated), or because I had a brainstorm on Sunday morning before the show (at home–good, I Read more...
Tags: Booker T & the MGs, Booker T. Jones, Clarence Paul, Dave Marsh, Dedicated: A tribute to the Five Royales, Eddie Floyd, Five Royales, Kick Out the Jams, Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams, Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Stax, Steve Cropper
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
Kick Out the Jams 7 17 2011 Howdido, Woody Guthrie CD: Nursery Days Do Re Me, Bob Dylan CD: The People Speak soundtrack Pastures of Plenty/This Land is Your Land, Lila Downs CD: La Linea This Land Is Your Land, Bruce Springsteen CD: Live 1975-1985, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Buffalo Skinners, Jim Read more...
Tags: Artificial Gardens, Dave Marsh, Kick Out the Jams, Maren Parusel, The Loft, Turn Off the Dark, Woody Guthrie
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
From the Rock & Rap Confidential mailing list (www.rockrap.com). Letter to the Baltimore Sun July 7, 2011 Sen. Benjamin Cardin’s recent letter defending Bono and his ONE foundation puts him in direct opposition to President Obama’s appeal for “corporate jet” owners to pay their fair share of tax (“Cardin: ONE Campaign works,” June 27). U2 Read more...
Tags: Bono, overpaid rock stars, U2 tax dodge
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
It’s said that Bob Dylan once called Jimmy Cliff’s “Vietnam” the best protest song he’d ever heard. If he did, there’d be no reason to argue. If he didn’t, he could’ve. At Glastonbury, last month, Cliff changed “Vietnam” (41 years old) into a contemporary song once again by changing the title to “Afghanistan.” As you Read more...
Tags: "honor the troops", Jimmy Cliff, peace movement, War in Afghanistan
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Peter Gunn Theme, Clarence Clemons (Porky’s Revenge soundtrack) Slow Walk, Sil Austin (The Greatest R&B Hits of 1956) I Wanna Be Your Hero, Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers (Rescue/Hero, Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers) Blood Brothers, Bruce Springsteen (outtake from Live in New York City–Madison Square Garden 2000) Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Read more...
Tags: Clarence Clemons, Coasters, Dave Marsh, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Kick Out the Jams, Lonnie Ray Atkinson, Project Question, Robins, SiriusXM, The Duhks, The Loft
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Vincent Harding, scholar and writer, speaks here as perhaps the leading Gandhian activist in our nation. He can say not only that he “marched with King,” but that he wrote with him, planned with him, and learned together with him. He remains one of the truly inspiring figures of the American freedom movement. This open letter Read more...
Tags: Diane Nash, Martin Luther King, nonviolence today, Obama and civil rights, Obama and terrorism, Vincent Harding
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
May 29, 2011 on Kick Out the Jams
Tags: Bob Dylan, Chuck Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron, J.P. Robinson, Jimmy LaFave, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, Kermit Lynch, Kick Out the Jams, Manfred Mann, O.V. Wright, Percy’s Song, Red House Records, The Ultimate Johnny Rivers Anthology, The Walker Brothers, Thea Gilmore
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
May 29, 2011 on “Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams.”
Tags: Annie Barrows, Barack Obama, Bob Dylan, Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution, Dave Marsh, David Deutschman, Dick Nichols, Dignity -Bob Dylan, Frank Joyce, Gil Scott-Heron, Helen Yaffe, Indignados, I’m New Here, Jamie xx, Jonathan Franzen, Kevin Gray, Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams, Mary Ann Shaffer, Michael Kamen, The Che Guevara Reader, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Yip Harburg
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
[This item appeared in April at the Holler If You Hear Me website: www.hollerif.blogspot.com I added a little here.] Somebody asked if Robert Johnson ever got to Chicago. I looked for the fact in a few places and then realized that what I was going to get was somebody’s version but that it was more Read more...
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
My friend Kevin Gray and others in South Carolina are having a Uncle Tom’s Cabin Book Reading Marathon in Columbia, South Carolina on April 12th. They are telling the enslaved Africans and abolitionists’ side of the story.
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