0 Replies to “Wednesday night Zen”

1. Pablo says:

   May 19, 2010 at 9:46 pm

   Wow. I loved that song back when. For some reason, it’s reminding me of Seven Mary Three.

2. bh says:

   May 19, 2010 at 10:39 pm

   First saw boobs that year. Yeah, I’m still kinda excited about it.

   Who’s this Earle guy?

3. B Moe says:

   May 20, 2010 at 4:41 am

   Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator is the best live album title ever.

   It is also one of the best live albums ever, by the way.

4. serr8d says:

   May 20, 2010 at 6:04 am

   Steve Earle lives in Williamson County, Franklin, one of the bright-red strongholds here in Tennessee. But unfortunately Mr. Earle is counter and athwart the valuable principles of Conservatism…

   He’s also one of the one of the most explicitly political musicians around. He is a longtime activist against the death penalty and the criminal injustice system. Earle’s previous records Jerusalem and The Revolution Starts…Now stirred controversy among right wingers because of their open challenges to the U.S. “war on terror”–especially the song “John Walker’s Blues,” written from the point of view of the American captured during the U.S. war on Afghanistan, John Walker Lindh.

   Earle spoke to Socialist Worker’s Jack Trudell on a recent tour stop in Madison, Wis.

   That link to, unbelievably, “Socialist Worker dot org”.

5. serr8d says:

   May 20, 2010 at 6:08 am

   (Oh, Jeff, you might be interested in this at the NYT where they are editorializing that “Rush is Right” for resurgent Republicans, and that “I Hope (Obama’s policies) Fail” might just be working.)

6. Rich Cox says:

   May 20, 2010 at 6:42 am

   I first got into him with Guitar Town as a young lad in middle school. The whole album is great.

   True that he went left, and some speculation it only got worse after his drug convictions… but that could be a chicken and egg debate.

7. Lost My Cookies says:

   May 20, 2010 at 6:44 am

   Serr8d,

   My Dad used to tell us about how much he loved Marching Season in Belfast, because they “may have been rotten Orange bastards who’ll end up burning in hell, but they have the best songs.”

   I love me some Steve Earl, but every time I hear him I get this song stuck in my head. And down here, you hear a lot of Steve Earl.

8. Lost My Cookies says:

   May 20, 2010 at 6:44 am

   e and e, k?

9. Silver Whistle says:

   May 20, 2010 at 7:22 am

   That link to, unbelievably, “Socialist Worker dot org”.

   It’s hard to fathom how, in this day and age, there are enough Trots to fill a damp bedsit in Hackney, let alone populate an international organisation. Must be Groundhog Day for them, every day.

10. Blake says:

    May 20, 2010 at 8:18 am

    The guy playing guitar behind Steve Earle looks like Dan Baird from the “Georgia Satellites.”

11. zen meditation says:

    May 20, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    It’s kinda odd for me to see the comments which make ‘going left’ sound like some sort of disease which has to be explained.

12. sdferr says:

    May 20, 2010 at 1:08 pm

    “It’s kinda odd for me to see the comments which make ‘going left’ sound like some sort of disease which has to be explained.”

    What, you didn’t notice the events of the last century? Where were you then?

13. Blake says:

    May 20, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    Zen,

    you must have some sort of decoder ring for comments. Because I didn’t know “The guy playing guitar behind Steve Earle looks like Dan Baird from the “Georgia Satellites” indicated I was perturbed by the leftward leanings of Steve Earle.

    I engage in ritual denunciation of myself for engaging in code words that secretly point out the lefty leanings of Steve Earle.

14. The Bewildered Lost Dog says:

    May 21, 2010 at 6:20 am

    Yeah, man.

    Steve Earle!

    One of the only Progg junkies in the world who owned a fifty thousand dollar Buick!