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This is great stuff for any music aficionado, especially of folk, social protest, and roots music. I am going to be "stealing" entries off of this site periodically but you should be checking it out yourselves. Kudos, Bob Feldman.
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Barbara Dane's Speech To GI Movement Revisited: Part 2
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Music
In her speech to the GI Movement of the Vietnam War Era (whose text can be found in the booklet that's included in Paredon Records' FTA! Songs of the GI Resistance vinyl album of 1970), Barbara Dane said the following:
"I became very interested in other forms of people's expression, like the blues and traditional jazz. I worked with incredible musicians like Jack Teagarden, Louis Armstrong, and Turk Murphy. Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon (who wrote most of Muddy Waters' stuff) were my group for a year, and I worked with Muddy himself. Brownie McGhee, Lightning Hopkins, Kenny Whitson, Wellman Braud, and Sonny Terry were some others. They showed the creativity of brotherhood and love amidst the very exploitive, racist atmosphere we worked in. Their music affirmed life, while the nation waged war in Korea, and the CIA ran massacres in South America and Indochina. I worked with social analysts and satirists like Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl, who exhausted themselves trying to penetrate the curtain of apathy and helplessness that had fallen over the country."
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