Townes Van Zandt playing and telling the story behind 'If I Needed You' (a few years back now)


"In dedication to Townes, who awakened my spirit, fed my soul, and flew away with my heart" -- Jeanene Van Zandt
Townes van Zandt - main site

Wow!
Mitch Fambro - Man of Straw

Sloan Wainwright, I've never heard her before, grrrrrreat voice Couldn't find 'In the Summertime' so I've gone for this one..
Sloan Wainwright - Meet Me In The Morning

And yes, we've not had a summer over here in the UK either. We were supposed to have 10 days of rain in one day today, but we've missed it down here in Devon, that's for sure...but I was watching the scenes in New Orleans on TV earlier this evening, and that twit, George Bush reading from a script, telling everyone to take the warnings seriously! Sheesh!! They also showed the clip from the last time New Orleans was hit, when Bush and his cronies left the people to survive, or not, on their own, whilst they flew over New Orleans in the Presidential Jet, on their way back from some fancy charity do somewhere....

Blimey! WHAT has happeened to us all????? We should all be out there marching on the streets....I mean HOW the heck did a man like that and his corrupt Government ever get to be voted in *twice*? Anyway, I hope that everyone is as safe as they can be down there.

Loudon Wainwright III - Needless to Say

I'm so busy ranting that I've lost the thread of where I am now.. :0) Yeesh!

Ah...Beth Neilson Chapman, she was the lady with the lovely voice..

Hey, you have Chris Smither coming to your folk club next year, Ron!

The Hurdy Folk Club

Have you heard his 'Train Home'? Fabulous! I always recall him during the very last Sidmouth International Folk Week, he was included on BBC4's wonderful documentary about the festival. Well, there he was down at Jacob's Ladder beach, which is the beach at the far end of town..and he was sat there, playing his guitar (and that song)..surrounded by scantily clad swim-suited young ladies, one of whom walked right in front of him, then climbed over the wall behind him, but he didn't miss a note or a beat! :0) I was very impressed! lol. Chris Smither - Myspace

Ooh, I like this track, very bluesy...I'm surrounded by cigarette smoke and the smell of beer, who was that? It wasn't Toby Walker
because he was just before...and now I'm out of the bar with the smoke and the beer, and down in New Orleans, sitting on the front porch with a whole pile of beautiful people, listening to them play..
And heck, can they PLAY! :0)

Bennett Harris

And there was Davis and Moses Scarlet and Eden...and I can't find mention of any of them on the internet, which is *so* annoying because their voices are just magic! :0) And Chuck Brodsky is back again, and this superb song called 'Not in my Name' by :John McCutcheon


Not in My Name
Words & music by John McCutcheon

John: vocal, guitar & hammer dulcimer
Jon: harmony vocals, piano & organ
JT: harmony vocals & bass
Pete: electric guitar
Jos: drums
Maura: harmony vocals

You see the plane in the distance
You see the flame in the sky
See the young ones running for cover
See the old ones wondering why
They tell us that the world is a dangerous place
We live in a terrible time
But in Hiroshima, New York or in Baghdad
It's the innocent who die for the crime

Chorus

Not in my name
Not in my name
Not in my name
Not in my name

The witnesses watch through the window
Their hearts locked in horror and pain
At the man lying strapped to a gurney
As the poison is pumped through his veins
And I'm wondering who are the prisoners
Who holds the lock and the key
Who holds the power over life, over death
When will we finally be free? Chorus

Bridge

We stray and we stumble in seeking the truth
And wonder why it's so hard to find
But an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Leaves the whole world toothless and blind

Through the ages I have watched all your holy wars
Your jihads, your Crusades
I have been used as inspiration, I've been used as an excuse
For the murder and the misery you've made
I thought I made it clear in the Bible
In the Torah and in the Koran
What is it in my teaching about loving your enemies
That you people don't understand?

Chorus

©2001 John McCutcheon/Appalsongs (ASCAP)
Denver, CO October 2001

Hey, he wrote Christmas in the Trenches

And Tom, Tom Paxton 'How Beautiful Upon The Mountain' Was that all a dream? The marches, the desire for peace and to change the world? What happened to it?