A Mile In Your Shoes
Singer/songwriter Chey Soul got herself an 8 track digital audio recorder and multi-tracked this mellow little gem of a tune, doing the guitar, bass, keyboard, and multi-layered vocal tracks all by herself. Somewhere in the process she got her husband, John Price, to add a drum track to round things out and here we are with this mix, ready to tickle people's ears and maybe even relax a few folks just a tidge as they listen.
This song is copyright Chey Soul. The linked music file of the song is released under a Creative Commons license of attribution, nonprofit, no derivatives. Feel free to snag your own copy and share it just as much as you like it. Even more than that is OK, too!
Run time is 5:04, file size is 12Mb. »
And They Call It Democracy
In 1970 Don Blake, who was somewhere along in his decade at KBOO, finished this amazing 45 minute audio collage put together with a splicing block and large quantities of audio tape ready for slicing and dicing. And, a most essential ingredient, enormous amounts of time.
The work features sound bites from politicians, civil rights leaders, and events with bits from rock and other music styles. This aired as a program on KBOO in 1970 and did a pretty good job in its attempt to chronicle the struggle in the late 1960s for democracy, peaceful governance, and personal, along with cultural, freedom. This is not only an audio experience it is excellent mind fodder.
Run time is 45:22, file size is 24Mb. »
Native Blood: The Myth Of Thanksgiving
This is for those who prefer to know the actual history of interactions upon native Americans by colonists as the colonies were founded and began to grow. Author Mike Ely, of the Kasama Project, reads his no-nonsense article which puts to shame many of the myths that are taken to be historically accurate by far too many who prefer their charming little stories to the actual historical facts about how ruthless many colonists actually were to native peoples.
Run time is 22:59, file size is 27Mb. »
We Can't Make It Here Anymore
Now I'm stocking shirts in the WallMart store
Just like the ones we made before
Except this one came from Singapore
I guess we cant make it here anymore...
In 2007 James released a recording of this song as a free download and was amazed at the response he got for a freshly minted all-American ballad about the effects upon a town after a local textile mill was closed down for good.
...Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin?
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I'm in?
Should I hate 'em for havin' our jobs today?
No, I hate the men that sent the jobs away.
Later, he gave folks from Occupy Wall Street permission for non-commercial use of the song in media projects, icluding soundtracks for videos which was something peeps with accounts on YouTube had been doing since 2007 anyway in spite of two sh*ts in the lyrics that pretty much kept it off the radio until the bleepy versions came out.
- Studio version: Runtime is 7:05, file size is 17M
- Bleeped radio friendly version: Runtime is 7:09, file size is 17M
- Bleeped acoustic version: Runtime is 5:21, file size is 13M
We're The 99
As poignant now as the day it was written, this little rockin' ditty, left over from the days of Occupy Wall Street, is by Paula Tiberius who just loved making free music for the revolution. This song is available on Vimeo and other video platforms with the words of the lyrics for the video portion accompanying the sound track.
Runtime is 4:32, file size is 6.4M »