tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-149355962024-03-07T18:19:33.574-08:00Dispatches from the Jew of OklahomaA point of veiw.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545629994668330466noreply@blogger.comBlogger261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-68803572328463756002018-05-02T14:15:00.000-07:002018-05-02T14:15:45.775-07:00From the Bad Livers Archive: Live review, Cleveland OH 1999<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those bad boys of bluegrass, the Bad Livers, made an impromptu stop in Cleveland in October for a sparsely attended but well-received show. The Austin-based duo of Mark Rubin (bass and tuba) and Danny Barnes (banjo and fiddle) laid down a loose-limbed but driving 90 minutes of down-and- dirty, mildly subversive grass. They played a lively, fresh set despite coming straight from a nine-hour drive from Philly (where they recounted getting caught in the “Amish vortex" off the Pennsylvania Turnpike.) Barnes is a formidable banjo player, making the fast rolls look effortless. He has an ideal bluegrass voice, high and lonesome, but with a bluesy elasticity. Rubin put a solid bottom on everything and pumped the rhythm along nicely. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The pair has a sharp, intelligent sense of humor. <b>Unfortunately, their cryptic references to the work of Hovhannes and bajo sexto music floated over the heads of the bemused blue-collar Cleveland audience. </b>They bantered with people shouting out requests, rejecting most in no uncertain terms. One obnoxiously overzealous fan's repeated request for “Chainsaw Therapy” was met with a shout of </span><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Shut the fuck up!”</span><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by an exasperated Barnes. They closed out the concert with a languid, trippy rendition of Thelonious Monk's</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 19pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">VITAL STATISTICS: Based in Austin, Texas, the Livers were formed in 1990. Trio members hail originally from Stillwater, Oklahoma (Mark), Belton, Texas (Danny), and Austin (Ralph). “We don't want our birthdays printed, and that's all the explaining you get.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 19pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Give the Stanley Brothers tattoos and thrash metal attitudes, and you just might end up with the Bad Livers. Bad Livers is a punk bluegrass trio consisting of Danny Barnes - forme</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 19pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">rly of the Barnburners and Killbilly - on banjo and vocals, Ralph White on fiddle and button accordion, and Mark Rubin - another Killbilly alumnus – on string bass and tuba. They play an acoustic bluegrass/old-timey mix with the energy and contrariety of a garage band. In addition to their own songs – written in the old speed metal/bluegrass tradition – they cover material from the Carter Family to Motorhead, from Flatt and Scruggs to Iggy Pop and the Stooges. “Fast speed metal, after all, is only a medium-tempo hoedown,” says Barnes. What sets these guys apart from many others who have forayed into the realm of style-melding is their clear respect and love for the traditional music which they incorporate into their sound.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545629994668330466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-89646610119083110442018-04-18T14:05:00.000-07:002018-04-18T14:06:34.312-07:00From the Bad Livers Archives: "Bad Livers cross the line between Bluegrass and Punk"<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 1.8327272727272728pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As you might expect of a band that finds it appropriate to link a Johnny Cash (“Ring of Fire'') and a Motorhead song (“Jailbait”) in a medley simply because they're in the same key, the banjo-bearing, fiddle-flying, tattoo-toting Bad Livers sometimes find themselves on stage in rustic folk halls and other times in raucous punk clubs.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">It's all a question of what club booked them first in any given town, according to upright bass and tuba player Mark Rubin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">“In a town like Denver, we played this little folk club the first time we played there, and from here on out we'll play that little folk club,” Rubin said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">At the Jersey Shore, on the other hand, the Livers debuted a few years back at the Fast Lane, a punk-rock cave, opening for the Butthole Surfers. Their gigs since then have all been at the Brighton Bar, the Long Branch punk haven where they will return Monday night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">“Have you ever been backstage (at a punk club)?” Rubin asked. “You know how there's graffiti all over the walls? This is the new thing we're gonna do now. We're gonna take a bucket of Lysol, we're gonna paint all the walls white and leave a potted plant. That's how punk-rock Bad Livers are."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">But no matter who or what they're playing for, the Bad Livers sound and smell the same: like a banjo-and-fiddle based bluegrass band that writes sad ballads and happy banjo blitzkriegs with old-time Appalachian mountain flavors, and plays them with the virtuosity of great bluegrass musicians and the devil-may-care attitude of punk rockers. The fast songs on the band's most recent album, "Horses in the Mines,” are jumping testimonials to fingers flying on strings and blizzards of words sung lovingly through singer Danny Barnes' nose; the slow ones have a fervor that recalls gospel music.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">The three Bad Livers are by now used to the sideways looks they get from new audiences, but those looks usually turn to foot-shuffling smiles once they start playing. “We're really happy about what we're playing, and I think the audience can see that," Rubin said. And now that the Austin, Texas, band has spent several years crisscrossing the country in their van, playing whatever small town would have them, he said, “We've got it down to where people know us and we don't have to explain ourselves every time”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A lot of different terms have been used to describe Bad Livers – everything from acoustic, speed-metal, bluegrass, thrash to cowpunk. All these terms, however, mean little to the Livers, whose focus is on just playing what comes naturally and relying on the principle that good music cannot be kept down for long.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Born from the Austin, Texas, gig scene, Bad Livers came together in 1990 as much out of attrition as out of any master plan. Banjo player Danny Barnes began booking himself as the “Danny Barnes Trio” around the town. The established sound of this title was misleading, because the trio consisted of whomever Barnes could scrape together to play that night. Over time, Ralph White and Mark Rubin fell into place to round out the group, as the three discovered their mutual influences and interest in musical history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">“Some musicians who play the traditional instruments play almost as if they are apologizing for them,” Rubin said while pumping nickels into a Lake Tahoe slot machine. “We like and respect the instruments and the music we play. We don't feel any need to lose any of that."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The other thing that stands out about Bad Livers is that they are committed, above all, to making the music that feels right to them with no concessions to those who would try to pigeonhole them into one industry slot or another. Whether paying homage to Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Metallica or the Stooges, the band is true to its roots and will not adjust its musical focus at the expense of . any of its other foundations. As one journalist once put it, “Listening to Bad Livers is like entering a parallel universe, where bluegrass is the only musical language. But it's expansive enough to accomodate everything from Johnny Cash to Jimi Hendrix.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; text-indent: 13.53191489361702pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their latest album, Horses in the Mines, was recorded in a wood shed on an old analog 8-track. “We didn't do it that way because we thought it would sound special or to be cool; it was because it was all we could afford," Rubin said. "But, the end result is something we are really proud of. I think it captured more of our live feel than our last album. It sounds a little like we set up in your living room."Bad Livers will also continue to tour as long as it remains feasible, knowing that the stage is their most powerful ally.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545629994668330466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-81480116869723156132018-04-04T11:54:00.001-07:002018-04-04T11:54:35.966-07:00From the Bad Livers Archive : fRoots UK Review of Industry & Thrift, 12/1998<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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The nucleus </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.986301pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the Bad Livers may now just be two guys, Danny Barnes and Mark Rubin, but with the aid of producer Lloyd Maines they're finally producing a mighty, full and cohesive sound. Working on the fringes of old-time and bluegrass, but crossing over with all sorts of raw roots from klezmer to country blues and honky tonk, they've finally got away from their earlier lo-fi fetish and do full justice to their singular vision.
</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-a9d1e37b-8d49-aab8-974f-d6a07f14206e"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whether it's driven by tuba and banjo (Lumpy, Beanpole & Dirt) or totally manic flat-pick guitar and slapped string bass (Brand New Hat, or the Doc Watson-on-uppers Cannonball Rag), they've now worked out how to capture the energy and fertile imagination that previously seemed to be the wishful thinking of the press release. Elsewhere, mandolins, clarinets, fiddles, squeezeboxes, bottleneck and pedal steel guitars layer in and out, and the only regret in the whole package is the complete lack of who-plays-what credits. Oh, and there's the obligatory uncredited extra track on the end, where banjo and bass go wiggy. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Every hear of the early Western movie star Bronco Billy? Turns out he actually born Max Aronson, the son of sucessful Jewish merchants in Little Rock Arkansas. To make it in the business he adopted the English name "Gilbert M. Anderson." One of his 300 short films featured the very first recorded example of the "pie-in-the-face" gag and played 3 different roles in the very first "western" movie "The Great Train Robbery"</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; text-align: left;">Thanks for visiting! Feel free to l<a href="https://jewofoklahoma.bandcamp.com/">isten or download my latest release for free</a>. I'm really proud of it and I'd like you to have it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Give them both a listen and maybe have a more nuanced understanding of the topic.<br /><br />I know I did.<br /></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545629994668330466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-19237346049667433832018-03-20T20:41:00.000-07:002018-03-21T15:31:30.874-07:00Goodnight Facebook<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjlQPpaWtnhUB8f-ZUvzXium2Jb4QNeCquUsQc5krGLQyZMdj8jlbXZLvpf7-jb15S6_QNxMQz_JQnvgXEn0a_5cu_BdAiVwrFpNxFh5GhyORDjA5ssrLnges6-qtyKlnRk4E5bA/s1600/67fafb156007154ff116805a4f734d5e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="250" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjlQPpaWtnhUB8f-ZUvzXium2Jb4QNeCquUsQc5krGLQyZMdj8jlbXZLvpf7-jb15S6_QNxMQz_JQnvgXEn0a_5cu_BdAiVwrFpNxFh5GhyORDjA5ssrLnges6-qtyKlnRk4E5bA/s200/67fafb156007154ff116805a4f734d5e.jpg" title="" width="171" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If you're reading this its a good chance you got my note about shuttering my Facebook account. I appreciate that you took the time to follow me over here. Here, Master of my own domain. I get to set my own rules and I'm not sharing your info with anybody. Promise. (If you should take issue with my posts, note that I'm factually incorrect or have some relevant commentary that you feel like sharing, please feel free to <a href="mailto:texasrubinchik@gmail.com">contact me.</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Before I start cranking out observations and opinions here that would have gone over there, please do me this one favor. Check out my new website, <a href="http://www.jewofoklahoma.com./">www.JewofOklahoma.com.</a> When you're there you can find a link to my latest release. I'm super proud of it and I'd like you to hear it at least and download it free for nuthin'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />What he gave me was this dub of a dub of famed Serbian trumpeter <b><a href="http://www.orkestar-gongo.com/lat/lat-index_s.htm" target="_blank">Svetozar Lazović </a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> </b>with no song titles or any info, just the cassette with a strange name on it. Needless to say, I was entranced. Hadn't heard anything remotely like it and as a life long brass bandsman I had heard plenty up to that point, Mexican Banda on the radio and NOLA street bands on the corner to name but a few. But this was just a revelation. It lead to basically everything else I ever discovered since.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then just this week I find this amazing live recording from Amsterdam in 1989 where they are pretty much playing down the same tunes as was on my battered cassette (which I passed along to the next soon to be fan.) There's the Eastern Orthodox hymn at the start into the standard showpiece "Ciocarlia." Next jumping into a set of the lively "kolos" that earned him and his band several "Golden Trumpet" awards at the prestigious Guca Festival, basically a mark of the best in all Serbia. And unlike many of the bands popular with Western fans, Lazović is just playing the standard ethnically Serbian material, devoid of the sexy "coceks" of the Rromani bands. This live recording captures what I've been told is the standard of their form, in it's best presentation. </span>Along with the awesome sound the brass is making, I've always been taken by the strong clear vocals, by who I am not sure, with the rest of the band in full chorus behind him. Of note towards the end of the concert is a tune called "Mesciccina," Not the highly stylized version made famous by soundtrack producer Goran Bregovic, but he original and much much different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />By soaking in these tunes for literally years, I was in a good position to join the famed Boban Markovic Band onstage as second bass tuba when Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars toured with them. It came in REALLY handy when we played in Chicago and were met with a huge audience of Serbian ex-pats who weren't really interested in the Rromani tunes and Boban played an hour long set of kolos for the drunken Serbs (who threw literally thousands of one dollar bills at us as the danced around the hall.) I tag teamed the tuba with my teacher Sascha Alisinov, tapping in and out when we each needed a break. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If anyone wants to embark on the rough journey of imitating Rromani Brass traditions, I'd humbly recommend to start here and master the Serbian form, which is the basis to the more lively and sexy Rromani bands like Boban. I posit it would be like trying to learn Black American music as starting at Ornette Coleman, ignoring Ellington and Charley Patton, devoid of the context in which the music was created and how it lives as an expanding and progressive tradition to the community who regards it as it's own soundtrack. It's a vibrant tradition carried on today by Lazović's son <b><a href="http://www.orkestar-gongo.com/lat/lat-index_d.htm" target="_blank">Dragan</a> </b>and <b><a href="http://markomarkovicbrassband.com/" target="_blank">Boban's son Marko</a></b>. What they do today would make little sense if you hadn't understood where they came from and what it's function is. Well, that's my opinion for what its worth. You're welcome to do as you like, ultimately.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So as a fundraiser, here's a 3 CD set of my most recent material, 2011-2016. I'm very proud of these releases and I'd love for you to have one. I'm including a poster of Howard Rains controversial cover art for "Southern Discomfort," along with full liner notes. These are lovingly handmade discs, each individual and unique. (If you kick another $10, I'll include a copy of the Bad Livers UK only release 12" gold vinyl EP.) Only a limited number available</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've got auctions up on eBay including my collection of Flaming Lips memorabilia dating 1982-84 and a few selected Bad Livers items as well.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="40qje-0-0">OK. So here we are. </span><br />
There's confusion, sadness and even despair going around and I get it. Some of us are old enough who remember what the "back" in taking the country to actually means and its not pretty. In fact, it represents all that my generation, and marginalized generations before, had railed against our whole lives. And for 8 years we were sure we would enter our dotage having had done our job by pushing the monolith of democracy every so slightly to Justice. That our efforts were amazingly becoming meaningful and productive. Alas, as the Sages remind us healing the World, Tikkun Olam, is a daily struggle and many of us look out today with a despondency I can scarcely describe. <br />
What to do? I want you to do me a favor, try this. Seek out local artists, poets, writers, dancers, craftspeople and journey people, your neighbors and by extension your community. Find them and do what you can make them part of your everyday life. No need to look far, you'll find them. Find your tribe in other words. Not in the ether, on these false platforms which only trick the mind into believing things to be real. Go out and touch the real. Make the real. Put some art on your wall made by a face you know. Eat food from your local garden down at the local farmers market. Make a connection, in that place where art, science and culture all intersect. It's VITALLY important that we look to each other now, and realize as someone noted 8 years ago, you are the people you've been waiting for.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/hangmansdaughter" target="_blank">Here's the link to donate my project</a></b>, which I'm very proud of. But be sure and donate to somebody's efforts either by simply buying what they make or hiring them to do what they do. We'll only progress if we support each other, not by tweets and posts, but by our budget choices.
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545629994668330466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-73270251975539886022017-01-09T11:39:00.001-08:002017-01-09T11:39:13.217-08:00Tenor banjo master Eddie Davis teaches you all he knows<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He just sits there in front of his camera at his little NYC apartment and regularly plays down his versions of the great American Songbook, sharing it for free and to all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe two months later, a battered square box arrived at my home in Austin TX. He sent me literally every recording of Yiddish music he had, many of the recordings either collected by himself or ethnographers he encountered. Home recorded gems of fiddler Moische Nussbaum and vocalist Bronya Sakina. Belf 78's and Lautari classics, Moldovan brass bands and 1961 field recordings of Rroma fiddlers playing half remembered Jewish melodies. Bukovinan and Hutsul bands and Maramures singers. It was, and still is, my personal Yiddish Rosetta Stone. And all of it given freely, even enthusiastically, the absolute opposite of my experience with the Yiddishist I had encountered up to that point (which will get its own essay soon enough.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still go back and listen to them today. And if you're looking for the amazing Yiddish singer Bronya Sakina, <b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mark-rubin-5/sets/bronya-sakina-a-life-in-song" target="_blank">I digitized that tape and put it up for all to hear.</a> </b>Along with <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOUrqPX64A" target="_blank">video recorded around the same time</a></b>. (Why was this so hard to find?)<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you Mr. Cohen. I am forever grateful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out <b><a href="http://horinca.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bob's blog</a></b>, always entertaining.<br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545629994668330466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-74547219764885240462016-12-02T14:48:00.000-08:002016-12-02T23:03:32.098-08:00Remember that time when the skin head tried to kill you with a ball peen hammer?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He swung hard and wild with a ball peen hammer he found in my toolbox just outside on my porch. I just laughed at him lunged at me, seriously laughing my ass off. This totally wasn't what he expected and after he wore himself out flailing the hammer, he looked around, smashed a window and departed. The poor Killdozer dudes were so freaked out, they slipped out and I never saw them again. But here, years later, they relate the tale. And I lived another day :-)</span><br />
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"I'M THE TEXAN WHO HELD THE "YOU BELONG" SIGN IN FRONT OF THE MOSQUE IN IRVING</div>
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I have had the most extraordinary weekend.</div>
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<br />Like most everyone I know, I have been in a malaise and at a loss since Election Day. What to do? With myself? With my time? To make things better, or even just to slog through?</div>
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<br />I manage a sign shop, and so I had had the urge for a week or so to do this. Friday, I had a couple of spare hours in the afternoon, so I did. I made a sign, and I drove to the nearest mosque and stood out on the public sidewalk to share the peace with my neighbors. My marginalized, fearful, decent, targeted, Muslim neighbors. Someone took a picture and posted it, and as of today it’s been viewed millions of times, and shared across various platforms many hundreds of thousands of times.</div>
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<br />This is extraordinary and humbling; mainly because what I did isn’t (or shouldn’t be) all that extraordinary.<br />For me, this wasn’t about expressing agreement; I remain Presbyterian, not Muslim. It wasn’t about demonstrating my outrage to right-wing drivers driving down Esters Road in front of the mosque. I can never, and will never, change any of the haters. It’s not about them. Not this time, and not here.<br />This was about binding up the wounded. About showing compassion and empathy for the hurting and fearful among us. Or, in some Christian traditions, this was about washing my brother’s feet.<br /></div>
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This was about my religion, not theirs.</div>
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<br />And, it was about what I think I must do as an American when our way of life is threatened. Targeting people for their religion not only threatens our way of life, it is the polar opposite of our way of life.<br />Find a group marginalized by the haters in this current era we find ourselves in. Then, find a way to express your acceptance to that group in a physically present way, as opposed to a digital one.<br />I can assure you, from their outpouring of smiles, hugs, tears, hospitality, messages extending God’s love, and a bouquet of flowers, it will mean a lot.</div>
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<br />My own religious tradition ascribes these words to my deity:<br />I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.</div>
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<br />It is also in this vein that the words on the Statue of Liberty embrace, with eagerness and mercy, all who come to join us:</div>
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"Give me your tired, your poor,<br />Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br />The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br />Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,<br />I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"</div>
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These words bespeak the America we all remember, know, love, and are still called upon to be. Especially now.</div>
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Lastly, it worked. I felt better for the impact it had on my neighbors. They genuinely needed this encouragement. They need us.</div>
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They need all of us. They need you.</div>
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We ARE one America.<br /><br />Justin Normand <br />(from his Facebook account)</div>
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A nice young man asked if I’d be willing to participate in a research for a college paper he was working on, and exploration of the great number of self identified “punk” musicians involved in “old time.” Though he had never heard of me, or Bad Livers, several of his other interviewees recommended he approach me. Here are my responses:</div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Hello Mark Rubin, Thank you for being willing to participate in my project. </span> </div>
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You are very welcome, Mr. XXX. I always appreciate the opportunity to share my observations. </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The questions are below.</span> <span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">If you feel that I am missing anything or if you want to add anything else please feel free to tell me. </span> </div>
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I think you’ll find my recommendations in the provided answers. Jews tend to answer questions with questions. I apologize what whatever cultural disconnect that might provide. </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">What drew you into the punk rock/alt/harder scene? </span> The purposeful rejection of the overarching consumerist narrative of the time. And finding, finally, a community of the fellow marginalized. Bear in mind my involvement in a “music” emanating from this counterculture was simply an advent of my already radicalized socio-political world view. This was the Reagan years, ’81-86. You cannot possibly conceive of what rejecting the narrative presented to you would be like at that time, and in a relatively rural environment. Either throw my lot in with these people, Kikes like me, Blacks, Fags, Meskins, Injuns, poor white trash etc, i.e. “Degenerates.” Or try and assimilate into a culture I don’t recognize and wouldn’t let me participate anyway. It was a once wonderful vibrant culture, with its own language, art, dance and even music, until the rich boys and jocks showed up with fucking love songs. These, the very people we worked hard to get away form. But like anything genuinely revolutionary, it was coopted by the well-off and became no more than another consumerist proto-culture, a hobby. It had once been the soundtrack to anti-consumerist radicalism, but it died for good right around 1989 and anything that appears after is mighty suspect. Most all the authentic voices were silenced by the new fashion craze. Capitalism can take down anything it seems. Except Fugazi. They’ll be punk rock long after the Apocalypse. </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Can you talk about your journey into that community and what role you fulfilled there? </span> </div>
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See above. For a brief time I roadied for the Flaming Lips on trips to Texas. With a Anarcho-collective group, we hosted 100’s of “hardcore"shows in Norman OK from 82-86 before I split for Dallas to join the collection of like minded musicians there. Literally everyone you can think of that toured at that time stayed at my flophouse after the gig we arranged at a the the local VFW hall and ran the PA. Minutemen, Black Flag, etc..I still in touch with many of them today. At least those still involved in the struggle. Bad Livers actually toured the US opening for the Butthole Surfers in 1991, which many have told me in the years since opened their ears to aggressive music forms outside of “rock." </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">When did you first hear Old-Time? </span> </div>
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Define that term, It’s literally meaningless to me. Do you mean regional music that represents and speaks for the traditions and aspirations of a unified community? I grew up hearing Tohona-O’ohdam fiddlers and Chicken scratch bands as a kid on my family’s ranch in Arizona. The vaqueros we hired introduced me to their corridos and mariachi. In Nebraska and Kansas my family went to the Czech towns to dance their polkas and schottisches. I literally grew up at square dances my parents dance at with a local live dance band every Thursday, with fiddler sawing tunes accompanied by three-finger roll banjo. My brother was a adopted from the Kiowa tribe and on Sunday afternoons we went to the local pow-wow at the Rez and heard the singing and drumming. I recall we had Pakistani foreign exchange students who lived with us and played tabla and sarrood in our living room sometimes. I learned to sing in the Church of Christ next door to my home and stayed around in the parking lot afterwards when the pastor drove off and the beer and the banjos came out for a “bluegrass” weekly jam. I played with my dad in a village brass band playing the same tunes they had since they first formed after the Civil War as well, evoking “old times." When I moved to Dallas, I lived in a Mexican slum and got hip to Los Alegres de Teran, which my next door neighbor said was “old style.” So, what signifies “old-time” to you? </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">What were the circumstances around that? </span> </div>
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It was the culture of my neighbors. Jews have to be good neighbors. They’ll still burn a cross on our yard anyway, but one must be nice. </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">What made you start playing Old-Time?</span> </div>
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Again, sorry, I utter reject the notion that white skinned, Protestant immigrants get to use any term they like and make it mean anything they like. Like “waterboarding” means “torture,” or “resettlement camps” means “gas chambers,” all gifts of white skinned “Christians.” Your nomenclature is woefully insufficient I fear. Are you really asking “Why did you abandon your own family and cultural history just to steal someone else’s because it seems fun?” Is that your question ultimately? </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">What is it like being in this category of Old-Time musician? Were the people in the tradition welcoming?</span> </div>
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Music doesn’t exist, cultures do. How welcoming would you be to someone who invited themselves to your party, eats all the food, drinks all your beer and takes one of your girls out to parking lot to have fun with? Hmmm…I stick to my own knitting and I didn’t grown up in a culture that rewards and supports thoughtless appropriation, so I get along just fine with my neighbors. Most importantly, I'm filled to the brim with my own culture and have no need to top it off with somebody else’s anyway. When I’m at a jam session, if anybody asks, I have a song of my culture that I can share. I cannot muster a whit of respect for those who posses the temerity to live otherwise. They may not be bad people, but even the casual observer would agree that’s really awful behavior. </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">What do you feel like your role in the Old-Time community is?</span> </div>
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Zero. None of my business. I hang out and keep my mouth shut until I am invited to participate and then only just so, as I was raised. There’s this bizarre new “proto-culture” left over from urban hippies culture that identifies itself this way I’ve come to encounter. To my experience (nearly 30 years now) it’s simply just yet another consumerist enterprise that any thoughtful person would naturally avoid altogether, as it’s readily identifiable as an abysmal example of White Supremacy. My role? Destroy the entire system that allows people to abusively disrespect and dehumanize others in this offhand way. Question and confront anyone who engages in such, appealing to their inner goodness and humanity, to simply just fucking stop, stop right now and think about what the fuck it is they’re doing. They can’t all be bad people, because if they knew what we knew, they just wouldn’t be that way. I stand in opposition to these notions and my excoriations, stinging sometimes, are my expressions of love and concern, seeking compassion and working for world that people can meet as equals with respect and mutual understanding. Which, so we’re clear, these perspectives are deeply ingrained into both cultures' tradition, Kike and “punk." </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">What are the crossovers with punk rock and Old-Time?</span> </div>
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As they have been expressed in the last 40 years, they are both consumerist fictions, a coopted facade to support Capitalism and ultimately destroy the native traditions of communities they lampoon. It's an effort to delegitimize them so as to assimilate them into the mainstream were they can be sold stuff easier. Culture thus is anathema to Capitalism and and anything that stands in the way of commerce is to be removed or destroyed.That’s it. Literally nothing more. I contend that if you can’t see the unified thread that connects all peoples who are marginalized, then I question what you’re are looking at. Further his kind of questioning belies a premise I utter reject and bears no relation to any reality I’ve experiences in living communities. Except of course, to any consumerist trained to abuse other people as a sport. That anyone can hold themselves at arms length for a other group of people and then parse their “music” independently because they themselves can’t understand it any other way simply represents the absolute worst behavior this country engages in. “Old Time” is a fiction, and was ever since Uncle Dave published his “old-time” songs, and was listed as a description on the 78’s. The clueless hippies found these discs and made the term up whole cloth, so they could put yet another culture in a box so they could understand it. It’s important to note that famed Anti-semite Henry Ford actively supported, even recording and distributing 78’s his fantasy imaginings, American “old time” music and culture as a was to confront the hoards of immigrants defiling his great country. This from a man who ensured Ford Motors supplied a copy of the “Elders of Zion” book in the glovebox of every Model T that came off the line. (“Take America Back.” )</div>
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“Mountain” is a moniker for a living culture of which “mountain music" represents only one tiny facet of. In reality, living “mountain” people (like the Spencers on Whitetop Mountain for instance) don’t have the privilege these folks exhibit by pulling apart their heritage, nor can they stop others from describing their lives as a “genre,” yet another consumerist fiction. In doing so, these rude outsiders are in fact choosing to refuse or acknowledge that this “music” is simply a desperate and fleeting moment that this entirely marginalized community uses as tool to regain their basic humanity, endangered the very forces you wish me to comment on? The people I see today who come from some other culture and glom on to another do so because they truly believe its a dead art, available for them to revive. How would you feel, a living person who is set upon by necrophiliacs? What cultural treasure do they possess? Would any take umbrage to some Chinese millionaires appropriating in the same sort of crude and classist burlesque that these people do? Do they have anything at all to contribute to these communities beside scorn and ridicule and theft? Is that your question? </div>
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For the record, no, they don’t. Like the Vikings they are descended of, they simply show up anyplace and take whatever suits them, without a single consequence supported by an angry sky god that requires blood. Hollow and hungry vessels buoyed by privilege they fill themselves up and care little what they leave in their wake. “Blues,” “Country,” “Old-time,” etc.. using this terminology and referring to “genres,” that’s how we in living cultures identify the racists and classist arriving to do ill. Like Ralph Rinzler, they yank the gold top Les Paul out of Doc Watson’s hand and make him play an acoustic, because Ralph knows his market and couldn’t care less about Doc’s people. “Genuine Hillbilly, come and see!” That’s what you say to me when you say “Old-Time." </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Can you also add a few of your favorite fiddlers/banjo players from "the tradition" that influenced you? (I understand that "traditional" carries a lot of weight and I am using this term loosely to describe those who grew up in the vein of Old-Time) I am compiling a playlist alongside this research paper made up of tracks of "traditional" Old-Time musicians who former punk musicians connect with. </span> </div>
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Just Google me. Who I’ve recorded, produced and toured with should give you a nice long list of my neighbors and folks I live or lived around. I toured with many, until I was told by the promoters they didn’t need a “white” bassist. Former “punks?” Adam Tanner had a great Metal noise act long ago. And though we disagree on the points I’ve noted, we stay in touch. </div>
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<span class="_4yxo _4yxp" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Thanks for participating!</span> </div>
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A genuine pleasure. My responses to these queries are my expressions the culture I grew up in, how it lives right now and expresses as a unified culture; a people of which I am simply one of. Not some Ayn Rand solo act told all their lives they can do whatever they like with whatever they find, just as long as they have the gold to buy it. </div>
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It was “Nazi punks fuck off” then and its no different today. The Nazis just play banjo now. No fucking difference at all. Share that widely. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545629994668330466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-88374185888243490222015-08-25T16:01:00.000-07:002015-08-25T16:01:49.601-07:00Mark Rubin Performance Schedule<iframe frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=texasrubinchik%40gmail.com&ctz=America/Chicago" style="border: 0;" width="800"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545629994668330466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-24195865305392346062015-08-14T14:29:00.004-07:002015-08-14T14:42:52.797-07:00The Murder of Leo Frank, 100 years ago this week.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHjOWzBtBpvnGO7PHqdJdMJzxhbIahYc2wtWgnLJ80rEqx-Ng_G1sVEXwy3nyXKutGdOFBV3YpYIj1117o0C2EB7IW0KzGdkNuvE8vQ3nrkRLtuIuxVHN6Up1kuvoBM5PXyrEbw/s1600/6867201388_f8eed9e236_m+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; clear: right; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTHjOWzBtBpvnGO7PHqdJdMJzxhbIahYc2wtWgnLJ80rEqx-Ng_G1sVEXwy3nyXKutGdOFBV3YpYIj1117o0C2EB7IW0KzGdkNuvE8vQ3nrkRLtuIuxVHN6Up1kuvoBM5PXyrEbw/s1600/6867201388_f8eed9e236_m+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's quite a few Jewish people involved in the study and performance of American old time musical traditions. As it happens, I'm one of them. I could do literally hundreds of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">essays about the curious nature of this strange truth, which I found to be not limited to the American experience but actually happens world wide; Jews seem to be at the vanguard of nearly every great cultural output around the globe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, yes, um, nearly every one save their own Yiddish culture it seems. Rather than address that confusing conundrum, I chose rather to focus on a dark chapter of Southern American history that I hope would bring context to this disconnect in a way that would have some resonance, and maybe give my fellow claw-hammer banjo slinging Hebrews a new lens with which to view their place in the narrative that created the "old time" music so many of us have participated in for so long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Years ago I was reading a article on Georgia Fiddle styles. I was genuinely shocked when I came across an aside about the influential and media savvy fiddler John Carson, where it was reported that he would serenade the crowds gathered outside of the Atlanta Courthouse during the Leo Frank trial , composing songs designed to whip up the anti-Semitic sentiments of the crowd, including a little ditty sung by the assembled "Hang the Little Jew."<br /><br />Hmmmm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Wonder how many folks know that story?" I thought to myself. So I looked up the YouTube video for John Carsons' "Little Mary Phagan," where I made the mistake of reading the comments section. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />OK, right. So here we are 100 years after the fact and nearly NO Jewish person I know knows literally anything about it, yet rage filled bigots are all over the interwebs using the the event as if happened last week and proves every evil narrative against the Jews that you could possibly imagine. It would be hilarious if it were not so real. What do you do when presented with that kind of hatred? Not "long ago" hatred, but RIGHT NOW TODAY hatred.<br /><br />I'm a folk singer, so my only response naturally is a folk song:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When terrible ideas about
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Then it’s time to go<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When the goyim no longer
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Then it’s time to go<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When they say that
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Then it’s time to go<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When ignorance and stupidity
are routinely rewarded and violence is celebrated<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Then it’s time to go<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When you’re forced to
explain your stance on Eretz Yirsroel<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Then it’s time to go <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When
the privileged begin to portray
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Then it’s time to go<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When sexism is so deeply
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Then it’s time to go<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>When you’re the racist
whenever you correctly identify racism<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Then it’s time to go<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Either
pack and expatriate, or register and vote, either way<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It’s time to go<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always tried to doing something musical with my buds, and he had me come and play on his first solo outing for Sugar Hill Records when he was still transitioning as "Kev Russell," not fully Shinyribbed yet. Even took me to Holland to play a festival, where the show was running late and I played the tuba for three tunes; to date the furthest I've gone to be paid so well to do the least. Years later I've played a few dates with him in a fun acoustic trio version of Shinyribs before he found his current groove and recorded another record. He's expanded into more of a rock and roll show these day and has released a fine CD "<a href="http://shinyribs.org/" target="_blank"><b>Okra Candy</b></a>" you should check out. Seems like he's on a roll lately and it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. However he took time out from his mighty busy schedule to listen to my debut release and here's what he had to say:</span><br />
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