Which Side Are You On?

SeegerMashup

Rough mix of basic tracks, produced by David Gans and Jeremy Goody, engineered by Goody at Goody Sound.

Personnel: 
David Gans on guitars
Dan Brodnitz on piano
Myles Boisen on pedal steel and lap steel
Joe Kyle Jr. on upright bass
Joe Craven on mandolin and percussion
Christian Crumlish on vocals

Moses (Took Us to the Water) 
© 2022 At Swim-Two-Birds Music

Well now, Moses took us to the water (uh hmm)
Moses took us to the water (uh hmm)
Yes when Moses took us to the water, it was
Like leading lambs to slaughter
Moses took us to the water, yes he did

Pharaoh sent us off to catch him (oh yeah)
Well, that Pharaoh set us to catch them (uh hmmm)
So when Pharaoh sent us off to catch him then we
All got drownded when the waves came crashing
When Pharaoh sent us off to catch him (yes sir)

(first plague)
Well, Pharaoh made Ra angry, uh-hm
Yes, Pharaoh made Ra angry, yes he did
Turned Iteru into blood, fish guts poisoning the flood
Somehow Pharaoh made Ra angry, uh-hm

(second and third plagues)
Well, the river frogs that swarmed were bad enough
Yes, the frogs that swarmed up on us were enough
Until our bodies teemed with fleas from our heads down past our knees
But the river frogs that swarmed were bad enough

(fourth and fifth plagues)
Then our goats, and pigs were dyin’, uh-hm
Cattle, goats and pigs were dyin’, oh no
When wild wolves they took their lives, or the pestilential flies
And our livestock just kept dying, uh-hmm

(sixth and seventh plagues)
There was soot that gave us boils, uh-hmm
Yes, it gave us painful boils, yes it did
Then the lightning, hail and fire only took our suff'rin’ higher
When the coal-soot gave us boils, uh-hmm

(eighth and ninth plagues)
Well, the locusts all descended from the sky
Endless locusts kept descending from the sky
When the darkness fell for three days straight we shuddered at our curséd fate
As the locusts kept descending from the sky

(tenth plague)
Then I woke up and my firstborn son was gone, uh-hmm
Yes, I woke up and I found my son was gone, that’s right
Told us Moses was to blame, Pharaoh’s boy died just the same
When I woke and my firstborn son was gone

Six hundred chariots followed him on down
Six hundred o’ the best chariots followed him down
Oh, Six hundred chariots followed him down
And none came back when we all did drowned
And the officers of Kemet all went down

Well now, Moses took us to the water (uh hmm)
Moses took us to the water (uh hmm)
Well, when Moses took us to the water, it was
Like leading lambs to slaughter
Moses took us to the water, yes he did

Yes when Moses took us to the water, it was
Like leading lambs to slaughter
When Moses took us to the water, uh-hmm

'Cause when Moses took us to the water, it was
Like leading lambs to slaughter
When Moses took us to the water.…


Words and music by Christian Crumlish.

No One Does It Solo Only

Moses

Moses (rough mix 6)

Over the course of the summer I wrote a bunch of things, but didn't make audio versions of most of it.  Here's everything I missed, in one fell swoop, interspersed with appropriate songs.  The following segments are the order in which I recorded them, and the order in which they were published on Substack, and in the case of "I Survived Chicago," on Counterpunch as well.

Reflections on Singing for Wikileaks
Don't Shoot, Organize!
Notes from a Month in Australia
I Survived Chicago
Seegerism -- and the War Against It
Downtown Portland and the Screaming Silence

Summer Podcasts 2024

VFP Activist Anthony Donovan joins us to discuss his recent article in Peace and Planet News that "Iran is NOT our Enemy" despite all we hear and all we are manipulated to believe.  Anthony visited Iran and met the people and reflected on the differences between what he learned on his visit versus what we are told here in the US.  Anthony sees us being manipulated into war with Iran and warns us not to trust what we hear from Israel and especially our own government.  He explains Iran's efforts to maintain peace and avoid war despite the antagonists in Israel and the neo-cons in the US.

9.19.24 Veterans for Peace:  Activist Anthony Donovan says that Iran Is NOT Our Enemy

From Dartmouth 1957 to the studios in Denver where a humorist named Fred Arthur became the premier ad production agency in the West. We revisit with Blues Legend - Furry Lewis, look back at some memorable commentaries by Richard Arnold Beattie, listen to a live cut from singer-songwriter Danny O'Keefe and take a look at the next step in radio- download the Legends App!

Live from The Sound Century Music Hall II Pete Seeger-1957-2024

I don't normally post track listings, but I'm making an exception for this one.  

Pete Seeger - Ode To Joy
The Sabres of Paradise - Chapel Street Market at 9am
The Break Boys - My House Is Your House
Tom Sharkett - It's 5am Somewhere
Lord Of The Isles (feat. Ellen Renton) - Inheritance
Tom Sharkett - It's 5am Somewhere
Pete Seeger - Everyone In All The World

JOY RIDE 101

This is a 2024 cover of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", a poignant folk song written by Pete Seeger in 1955 that reflects on the cyclical and tragic nature of war to pose a series of reflective questions about loss and humanity's failure to learn from history. Sung by Josh Akpoyibo.

Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

05_Little Boxes

God Bless The Grass

Pete Seeger's Hudson River clean-up with the sloop, Clearwater 

The Clearwater

A song I long thought was written by Wataru Takada the Japanese legendary folk singer was actually an American trad cover, mostly arranged by Peggy Seeger and Mike Seeger's unit Peggy 'n' Mike Seeger. The solo guitarist was my friend but for now I cannot contact him, hiro8swing. Enjoy/peacE.

A MINER'S PRAYER

Susan sings this classic song written and performed first by The Weavers

If I Had A Hammer

This song is still as poignant today as it was right after World War II. We need peace for all people – now!
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Song by Pete Seeger
German lyrics by Max Colpet
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https://www.un.org/en/
https://www.msf.org/

Sag' mir, wo die Blumen sind (Pete Seeger cover)

Which side are you on - Pete Seeger Cover

"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1967 and made famous because of its censorship from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
The song tells the story of a platoon wading in a river in Louisiana on a practice patrol in 1942. Imperiously ignoring his sergeant's concerns, the captain orders the platoon to continue with himself in the lead until they are finally up to their necks. Suddenly, the captain drowns and the sergeant instantly orders the unit to turn back to the original shore. It turns out the captain was not aware that the river was deeper with a joining stream upriver. The narrator declines to state an obvious moral but intimates from what he has read in the paper that his nation itself is being led into similar peril by authoritarian fools. Each verse ends with a line noting that "the big fool said to push on" except for the final verse, which changes to the present tense, and the fourth verse which says "the captain dead and gone." The story is similar to the Ribbon Creek incident, which occurred in 1956.
The song was considered symbolic of the Vietnam War and President Lyndon Johnson's policy of escalation, then widely seen as pushing the United States deeper into the increasingly unpopular war. Like the Captain's demise, Johnson was eventually forced to abandon plans for re-election due to the war in 1968. The captain's criticism of a dissenting sergeant as a "Nervous Nelly" in the song's third verse appears to mimic Johnson's epithet for critics of the war."                    Wikipedia

Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea
Image: James Wheeler

Waist Deep in the Big Muddy-Pete Seeger (Cover)

My favourite era of music is the 80s but I have a huge love for the swing jazz era. I am deeply influenced by Bobby Darin, as I regard him as one of the greatest singers, instrumentalists and full-rounded entertainers ever. I can also play a few instruments, namely piano, drums and bass.

Over 200 digitized Hours Served of Quintessential Creative Content!  Welcome to The Beattie Audio Library Project, which contains the digital audio library of Sound Century and original audio media from writer-producer-singer-songwriter, guitarist, Richard Arnold Beattie. We are in the process of creating the largest audio content library for media professionals, writers, musicians, composers and lyricists; producers and artists. The Beattie Network offers creative services; an original music library; audio spots, and tracks as well as documentaries, programs and features that media professionals can use. We are Beattie- The Quintessential-Creative- Network!

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Author and DJ. Prize nominated debut novel FOLK out now on Velocity Press.

Susan Salidor is an award-winning children’s music composer and performer with the heart of a teacher.  She has released eight albums of original and traditional music and is the author, along with Ukrainian illustrator Natalka Soiko, of two picture books for young children, I’ve Got Peace In My Fingers and One Little Act of Kindness (Sideline Ink Publishing), based on two of her most widely-known original songs.

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), libertarian socialist, dad, lover of life.  I also write songs as part of Ai Tsuno, which you can look up on all the streaming platforms.

The Veterans for Peace Radio Hour brings you issues about war, peace and justice everyweek.

Music is my ultimate distraction of daily working life...No musical ambitions, pure musical fun

“What makes a song is the singer, while what makes a singer is their dedication to music and their inner feelings.”   Dimash Qudaibergen

I have enjoyed music for as long as I can remember and cannot remember a day of not either singing or listening to music. I am self-taught when it comes to playing guitar but what I most enjoy is singing which I have been doing since around age 18. Now retired singing and playing the guitar is now just a hobby and something I do to help pass the time. Have always  loved the sound of a Martin guitar. Currently been playing a Road Series DR S2 for about 6 years. Thanks for listening. I also enjoy discovering the sounds of other talented musicians and singers here on SoundCloud.

"Take the inventiveness of Bob Dylan, the melodic voice of John Denver, add the showmanship of Garrison Keillor and that's Michael Johnathon." - Bob Spear , Publisher, HEARTLAND REVIEW

Michael Johnathon is a folksinger, songwriter, concert performer, author who created and hosts the worldwide broadcast of the WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour with a radio audience with over a million listeners each week on 500 public radio stations, PBS-TV coast-to-coast plus American Forces Radio Network in 173 nations. Michael is also a playwright ... his play Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau has over 9,000 registered performances in 42 countries and translated into four languages.

His latest CD release is "MyCOVERS" (download the one sheet PDF) and his fifth book, "WoodSongs 5 was release in 2024.

This 'Woody Guthrie in a Cyber World' grew up in upstate New York along the shores of the Hudson River. At 19 years old, he moved to the Mexican border town of Laredo, Texas and found a job working as the late night DJ on a small radio station. One night, he played 'Turn, Turn, Turn' by the 60's folk rock group The Byrds. As the song played, he recalled seeing the songs writer, his neighbor Pete Seeger, performing in his Dutchess County hometown in New York. By the time the song had ended, he decided to pursue a career as a folksinger.

Two months later, he bought a guitar and a banjo and settled into the isolated mountain hamlet of Mousie, Kentucky. For the next three years, he traveled up and down the hollers of the Appalachian mountains knocking on doors and learning the music of the mountain people. Michael experienced hundreds of front porch hootenannies where folks would pull out their banjos and fiddles, sit on their front porches with him and play the old songs that their grandparents taught them.

Soon enough, he began performing concerts at hundreds of colleges, schools and fairs. He performed two thousand Earth Concerts, plus benefits for the homeless, farm families, and shelters helping battered women and children. In all, he sang to over two million people in one four-year stretch. Billboard Magazine headlined him as an "UnSung Hero." He has been featured on CNN, TNN, CMT, AP, Headline News, NPR, Bravo and the BBC

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