Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,
The tune this cycle is On the Dole, another song from the early nineties. It was one of a series of political songs at the time that looked at the ways that coporations and the rich manipulated laws, funding, and public opionion to reap ever bigger profits and diminish public services and benefits. Sound familiar? The intent focus on welfare benefits and occasional fraud as if those monies were even vaguely in scale with the billiions spent to subsidize banks, corporations, and to cut the taxes on the extremely rich - peeing in the ocean. And yet the poor are made to crawl through exceedingly narrow and humiliating hoops to get a meal or help with lodging. Let them eat cake and dance in golden ballrooms!
But People Gonna Rise - this is our time.
Love and Courage, Friends,
Brian
For the truly committed, take a listen to the whole playlist of 95 songs!
I recently started putting some songs up on music streaming platforms - all of them already published here. There's several now, organized as "albums" - Just a Little Rain, Late July and Crow. Take a listen there and add me to your playlist, if you so desire! I listen on Deezer.
I'm sending you a monthly offering from original music I've been writing over many years. I've been so bold as to add your email to my newsletter list. You can unsubscribe at any time (link at the bottom of the email).
Play your favorites!
I've also added a Favorites feature so that, as the playlists grow, you can mark those songs you particularly like and just listen to those, again from using the drop down filter at the top of the playlist. Right now it's a two-step process. You have to click on the song you want to mark on the playlist and then go to the side bar (bottom on phone) and click the gray heart so select; click again to deselect.
On the technical side, the favorites function relies on you not clearing your cookies, often the default setting. Favorites will be lost if cookies are cleared. I hope to add a login feature that would allow you to keep your selections without cookies.
Finally, realizing that many people no longer have a CD player, Leonore and I made our three albums available for free here on the site in playlists. There's a tab, Albums, on the top menu. Select the album you want to hear from the dropdown and enjoy. Songs are free to download as well. We will make some CDs for those who may want that medium - if that is your desire, feel free to contact me.
