This is a simple song about the joy of Spring coming along. Full of pictures of Spring in suburbia and finding cosmic wonder in every day things. 
I was heavily into Woody Guthrie when I wrote this so I took his advice and kept it really simple- it's all G, Em and D chords- and you can get away without the Em. :)

Summer EP

Jungles and Stars

Our debut release! We cover the great Irish musician Andy Irvine's tribute to Woody Guthrie.

Analise Hausmann: violin
Sean Dillman: vocals, guitar, mandolin

Never Tire of the Road

Never Tire Of The Road

Stewball was the name of an 18th-century British racehorse, most famous as the subject of a broadsheet ballad and folk-song.

His name has been recorded as "Squball", "Sku-ball", or "Stewball". He won many races in England and was sent to Ireland. The Irish turf calendar states that he won six races worth £508 in 1752, when he was eleven years old, and was the top-earning runner of that year in Ireland.

Stewball

Michele Fazio caught up with Billy Bragg before his show at Queen's University's Mandela Hall in November 2023 to talk about the politics of folk music and his new compilation album, "The Roaring Forty." 

Podcast Editor: Daniel Ouimet

Episode 1: A Conversation with Billy Bragg in Belfast

שיר ערש למובטל (דמו)

Lyrics written by Woody Guthrie, music written by Billy Bragg & Wilco. Vocals and intro acoustic guitar by McKail Seely, recorded by Warren Huart for Produce Like A Pro. Produced, mixed, and mastered by Raoul @ Zeeland Music Production.

California Stars [Remix]

California Stars [Remix] (feat. McKail Seely) [Produce Like A Pro]

A Woody Guthrie song. So, so simple, but incredibly effective

AINT GOT NO HOME.WAV

When the Roses Bloom Again live at the dollhouse

The Flatts

When the Roses Bloom Again

In September 2023, Michele Fazio talked with Grant Peeples about his origins as an artist, the importance of touring, American literature, and more at Antlers & Acorns: The Boone Songwriters Festival.

Episode 2: A Conversation with Grant Peeples ~ Antlers & Acorns: The Boone Songwriters Festival

In September 2023, Michele Fazio talked with Eric Erdman about songwriting, community, and untold folk songs at Antlers & Acorns: The Boone Songwriters Festival.

Episode 3: A Conversation with Eric Erdman ~ Antlers & Acorns: The Boone Songwriters Festival

In September 2023, Michele Fazio talked with Tim Easton about WoodyFest and his experiences on the road at Antlers & Acorns: The Boone Songwriters Festival.

Episode 6: A Conversation with Tim Easton ~ Antlers & Acorns: The Boone Songwriters Festival

Michele Fazio spoke with author Tim Z. Hernandez about cultural memory, labor history, and reciprocity--themes in his new book, They Call You Back, based on his search for the families of victims in the 1948 plane crash that inspired Woody Guthrie to write the song, "Deportee, Plane Wreck at Los Gatos." This episode also debuts a new song co-written by Hernandez and Ted Nunes called "They Call You Back."

Episode 7: A Conversation with Tim Z. Hernandez

Originally by Woody Guthrie, inspired by Billy Bragg's version

Vocals & Guitar : Benjamin Steegen
Banjo & Sound Mix : Jörg Seifert

Recordings @ Studio Zwarte Heuvel Essen

I Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie)

Oh to live in a world where you didn't have to sing this again but thank God that such a world also contains hearts and souls like Woody Guthrie's to write and sing them.

The crops are all in, and the peaches are rotten
The oranges are packed in the creosote dumps
They're flying us back to the Mexico border
To pay all our money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mi amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be Deportee

Now my father's own father, he waded that river
They took all the money her made in his life
Six-hundred miles to the Mexico border
They chased us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No all they will call you will be Deportee

The sky-plane caught fire, over Los Gatos Canyon
A big ball of fire, it shook all the ground
Who are these friends, who are falling like dry leaves
The radio said they were just deportees

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No all they will call you will be Deportee

But we died in your hills, we died in your valleys
We died in your orchards, we died on your plains
We died on your deserts, we died in your treetops
Both sides of the river we died just the same

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
No all they will call you will be Deportee.

from our album Untied States of Americana https://peacocks-tale.bandcamp.com/track/deportee
Composed by Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman
The picture is an inset photo of the fence erected on the modern border.

Untied States of Americana

Deportee (Woody Guthrie)

i ain't got no home in this world anymore

Une chanson magnifique écrite par le grand Pete Seeger dont les paroles sont, malheureusement, toujours d'actualité.

Where Have All The Flowers Gone (Pete Seeger)

Nothing too fancy... just a whole bunch of simple acoustic guitar tracks.

Ana Hausmann: vocals, violin, guitar, electronics
Sean Dilllman: vocals, guitar, bass guitar, mandolin

Folk Matters is produced by the Teaching Woody Guthrie Collective--an interdisciplinary group of educators, musicians, and activists exploring the connections among music, politics, and social justice in the classroom and beyond. This podcast features interviews with artists, writers, and community organizers to discuss the impact of music in their lives and in social movements. It's about Woody, his legacy, and so much more!

A marriage (and we are actually married, 45 years so far) of melody and rhythm. We do folk, indie, Americana, Norfolk noir, beat poems &  ghazals. Traditional tunes with contemporary beats. Music videos  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb8wV0-DNiFs1R5G2VSytBQ
Maz lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar. Gaz vocals, voice, bass, drums & percussion, harmonium, recorders, lyre harp, field recordings.

I am an artist, writer and musician from Hastings, UK.  I make slightly wonky acoustic folk-pop, often with unusual guitar tunings.
I record my own songs, musical versions of my own poetry and poems by my favourite poets such as Rilke and Yeats. 
Musically my current obsession is Judee Sill.
But it always comes back to the music of my childhood- The Cocteau Twins, The Waterboys, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush.

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy listening to reference mixes and original productions.

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