What are you listening to?

[NOVA Green]

Waylon Jennings--- "The Door is Always Open"

[NOVA Green]

Right Now---

Billy Bragg--- "Never Cross a Picket Line"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojPTz4VAOMA

A little bit ago some classic county,,,

Kris Krisofferson- "Don't Let the Bastards Get you Down"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yAW1daYXD4

Before that...

Merle Haggard "Roots of My Raising"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJAgmUa6nc&list=RDfxJAgmUa6nc

Ok--- So now next song on the tract.

Chumbawumba "Beginning to Take it Back" from one of their earliest albums when they were Indie Rockers in the UK off of their "Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records" album way back in '86.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP6KeYiZ-J4

[NOVA Green]

The Clash-London Calling

I've been in an apocalyptic mood lately and my brain's decided it wants to play this on repeat. Not sure why since i'm about as far away from Joe Strummer's views as one can get.

Maybe still thinking about the UK General Election Results?

Actually, thks for posting and I haven't listened to this song in quite awhile, but is currently what I am listening to.

Might need to pull up a few more of my favorite Clash songs like "Guns of Brixton:, "Clampdown" and "White Man in Hammersmith Palace" here in a few after I have a cig.

[NOVA Green]

Feeling the Classic Country Vibe...

Johnny Paycheck: "Take this Job and Shove It"

(My wife has a few songs she likes to listen to before she goes into the 12 Hr Factory/Warehouse Grave sh**ty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzGoDtmTllg

Jeannie C. Riley" "Harper Valley PTA"

(Arguably one of the best Female artists and country songs of the late '60s.... my wife went through these types of experiences raising five daughters alone as a single mom with deadbeat dads , and this was a Feminist anthem on the top of the charts in country music radio stations in the US back in '68.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZPBUu7Fro


Hank Williams Jr: "Please Mr Lincoln"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN-MrZ95dbU

Sigh.... unfortunately Hank Jr is a very different man from his Father, and although I personally find many of the major themes from this song deeply disturbing, I get the fact that he busted his head open on the Mountain in '75, but dang it, it's still pretty damn good music, and some of the Pub avatars on the Forum will likely enjoy the song, even most of y'all have never heard it before.

Listening to this song reminds me of one of the major reasons that Reagan was elected and then reelected, and now we have President Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams_Jr.

Ok--- need to scrub brain and shift to one of the best Folk (Not so much different from Classic Country) artists in modern US History, and go back to the West Coast, namely the North Coast of California circa 1980...


Kate Wolfe: "Redtail Hawk"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB9xDHsrlvU

[NOVA Green]

Being Father's Day and all that and still early on the West Coast....

Ewan MacColl: "My Old Man"

Arguably one of the most influential and well known Scottish Folk musicians of the 20th Century telling a very personal story about his Father during the Great Depression....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYMxrPzMGNg

Harry Chapin: "Cats in the Cradle"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un2EfjEJAOA

This is one of those songs which many sons whose divorced Fathers weren't totally around during the formative years, speaks to the heart, even decades later and building of relationships.

Mike and the Mechanics: "In the Living Years"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k

Late 1980s Pop Rock, but is a beautiful song that chokes me up every time I hear it, because it not only talks about Father/Son issues from the perspective of generational differences, but more importantly addresses the topic as an Adult Son of a Father, how it's better to deal with whatever issues in the present, because ultimately our time on Earth is limited. "In the Living Years".

Also, it has a pretty cool Church Choir melody going on in the background, so it lightens up the darker sides of the song....

Ok--- time to lighten up the mood a little bit in my queue.

Waylon Jennings & Hank Williams Jr": "The Conversation"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csONW-zWFqs

Felt a hankering to listen to a conversation between two Classic Country legends, with Waylon chatting with Hank Jr. over a 1/5th of Jim Beam, with one of Hank Sr.'s buddies swapping stories with the Son, about his Dad's life....

Merle Haggard: "Roots of my Raising"

Tells a story of an adult child checking in on Dad after the passing of his spouse. My Wife's parents are both passed, and her Father a brief five years ago, several decades after losing his Wife of decades at the hands of a Drunk Driver....   If anyone on this Forum gets busted on a DUI, you will have no sympathy from me....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJAgmUa6nc

So, because I am a Son of a Father, my focus on has been heavily focused on Male Artists on Father's Day, but listening to a few other songs now from Female artists that I admire that talk about their own experiences through music.

Reba mcentire: "The Greatest Man I ever knew"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AIrDSGyqSw

Loretta Lynn: "Coal Miners Daughter"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJAgmUa6nc

If anyone reading this on this Forum is not aware of Loretta Lynn, well damn, what the hell is the world coming to?   

[NOVA Green]

"We have Fed You All for a Thousand Years"---- an old IWW Song from 1908 that combines the beautiful lyrics of Mat Callahan, with some extremely powerful still photos from the Great Depression era in the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl6QzovB-38

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Alan Cathead Johnston: "Thank God for the UMWA"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIhlAbiHK8I

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Alabama: "40 Hour Week"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NK4SnHf8mU

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Rage Against the Machine: "Maggie's Farm"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kobjnbYngnE&t=2s

Mastodon: "Workhorse"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXBpe_edgd4

Cursive: "Dorthy at Forty"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIx-_rW8_1Q

Black Flag: "I've had it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx5A6MRiK2I

Adolescents: "Democracy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkOuoyRsbv8

David Allen Coe/ Moonshine Bandits: "Take This Job"----

If there are any actual "rednecks" on this Forum that have never heard of David Allen Coe, man go back to school before you ever jump on the back of a Hog....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2XD-qoTgaA

[NOVA Green]

Cat Stevens-  "Morning has Broken"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0TInLOJuUM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Has_Broken

It's a song that me and my wife both listened to way back as young children in Unitarian & Catholic Church respectively, that is a spiritual song that transcends all religious denominations, including Atheists and Agnostics, as it is more a story of the Human Condition, than anything else....

[NOVA Green]

Half-watching, half-listening to the Doctor Who episodes I missed.

You a Doctor Who fan Peebs!

Awesome!!!!

Last night, before we watched the season finale of Doctor Who my wife wanted to listen to some Old Skool Punk while I was doing a major dinner production.

Naturally threw in some Sex Pistols & Clash, and then started to play some classic Peace-Punk

Conflict- "The Final Conflict"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpue1rxMhaA

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Tom Paxton: "Born on the Fourth of July"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioV_aK5dY-I

Woody Guthrie: "Sinking of the Reuben James"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICy5P1pKy5A

Johnny Horton: "Battle of New Orleans"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_iRIcxsz0

American Revolutionary War Songs: "Ballad of the Green Mountain Boys"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KcJTP8nW8

"Yankee Privateer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UuZr7w6yak

In honor of the Revolutionary comrades fighting against British tyranny in the Southern colonies, I would be remiss if I didn't listen to a song about the "Swamp Fox", who combated the English Occupation in the swamps of South Carolina and Georgia.... (This was a legend when I was in 4th Grade)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQZc9ivgN5o

Thomas Paine: "The Liberty Tree"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAbNFF39MLw

Happy Independence Day!!!!!

[NOVA Green]

Travis Tritt - It's a Great Day to be Alive

A wise old man once told me: "Every day above ground is a good day"

Travis is all right, but I tend to prefer the classic country myself mixed with a bit of Garth for variety, not to mention some of the Texas Indies, that I used to listen to back in Houston.

[NOVA Green]

Peggy Seeger: Agent Orange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxdmtOMvMZ8

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Wolfe Tones: "Protestant Man"

As one of the biggest selling band in Irish History globally with almost 50 Years of Songs, they expanded the Irish Folk sound of the early and mid '60s within both the North & South of Ireland, and the within England, Scotland, and Wales, but additionally spread their songs to the Irish Diaspora from America, Australia, and throughout.....

This song is about the History of the Irish struggle for Independence and the role of Irish Protestants during the early years of the Freedom Movement....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNKJTAI-LTU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolfe_Tones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolfe_Tones_discography

https://www.wolfetonesofficialsite.com/our-story

https://www.amazon.com/Wolfe-Tones-Platinum-Collection/dp/B00GTC18F4/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=wolfe+tones&qid=1567465340&s=gateway&sr=8-4

Wolfe Tones: James Connolly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYH5h-5Dz40

Anybody familiar with Irish History should be familiar with the one of Founding Fathers of Ireland and his history and dying as a failed martyr as part of the Easter Uprising of '16....   (Just in case)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Connolly

Christy Moore: Viva La Quinta Brigada (Live in Glasgow '11.... 3.5 Million Views)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Moore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbXO828Vio

Again one of the greatest Irish Musicians of the Modern era, this song talks about the complicated experience of Ireland during WW II era, including the Irish Freedom Fighter Volunteers that went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, along with the role of the clergy and Brownshirts that fought on the opposite side of the the War.....

Unlike many other Irish musicians from the era in this song he calls out the Religious leadership of Ireland, where traditionally even in folks anthems from the South, people tended to avoid critiquing the local Catholic Church... still it was '69 and times they are a changing in the North, as well as in heavily Irish neighborhoods in Glasgow, London, Manchester, etc....

https://www.amazon.com/Ride-Christy-Moore/dp/B0012EGF66/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=christy+moore&qid=1567466140&s=gateway&sr=8-4

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Now listening to a bit of Waylon Jennings..... outlaw country legend from the '70s.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waylon_Jennings

Waylon Jennings: I've Always been Crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VO6bI-xrj8

Waylon Jennings: Good Hearted Woman...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skh-Bv_vVC8

The Kinks: Lola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemG0cvc4oU

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Because my wife insisted....

John Prine: Paradise

A story about growing up in Western Kentucky where the Mines destroyed the land from a perspective of a Young Boy in the '50s.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEy6EuZp9IY&list=RDDEy6EuZp9IY&start_radio=1

Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard: Ballad of Poncho and Leftie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbZ3VdYb90o

[NOVA Green]

My Wife bought me a late surprise B-Day present which we opened last Night while I sipped some Canadian Whiskey, and she consumed a few drinks of Deep Eddy Vodka (Straight Outa' Austin).

The present was a record player....

Naturally, I didn't initially want to put some of my rare Vinyls on the player without testing it with some more common rock & roll albums.

Here was a rough sequence of events from NOVA Green's recollection:

1.) Alice Cooper--- "Schools Out" Album

2.) Black Sabbath--- "Master of Reality" Album

3.) Phil Ochs--- "All the News that's Fit to Sing" LP  "A-Side Only but had to play the "Automation Song" first track on the B-Side for my wife. (First album recorded in 1964)

4.) Jello Biafra---  "Die for Oil" 45 special emergency release right before Iraq War 1.0

5.) The Subhumans   (Canadian)--- "Incorrect Thoughts"--- "A-Side" of the LP

6.) Oi Polloi---- "Live in Berlin" LP

7.) My memory starts to get a bit hazy after that, but I do recall putting on some underground Oregon extremely rare Punk Albums from the late '80s/early '90s, where the musical style was more like hard-core Thrash Metal, but with an extremely Punk vocals.


Now, I am looking forward to expanding my vinyl collection and the audio is so much better than the tiny compressed sound format of Cassette Tapes or DVDs, and certainly compared to YouTube.

Have some more acquisitions in mind from a few places down the road, one of which has an excellent collection of '70s alternative, early hard rock (precursor to Heavy Metal) and psychedelic rock from the '70s, including many bands that were extremely musically influential in the '70s, but had essentially disappeared by the mid '80s.

Stay tuned for the next NOVA Green playlist coming to an Atlas near you.....   

[NOVA Green]

Last Night (No particular order):

Priscilla Herdman-  "The Water Lily" LP   (A-Side)

Arlo Guthrie- "Arlo's Restaurant (A-Side).

The Eagles- "Hotel California" (Full Vinyl Album?)

The Doors-- First Album (?) A-Side

K-Tels Superhits Vol 2--- "A Side"

[NOVA Green]

Fundamental: "Seize the Time" on a vinyl album I bought about 30 Years back at a record store.

UK South Asian Hip-Hop Dance Hall Soundtracks from the late '80s / early '90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun-Da-Mental

[NOVA Green]

Phil Ochs: "No Christmas in Kentucky"  recorded mid '60s published in the mid '80s (Own the album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK5QSOodqhg

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NFL background Falcons vs Saints...

Naturally, got some Vinyl playing on my record player, waiting for my Wife to get off work in a few hours....

The Pogues: Red Rose for Me (LP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxv0t7lVKgM&list=PLC3EFADA7DEBBFBEC

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=red+roses+for+me+pogues&crid=2K8CU4JKIV8K&sprefix=the+pogues+red+r%2Caps%2C224&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_16

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Linton Kwesi Johnson: "Wat About Di Working Class"

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Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger: "Ballad of Accounting"

Legendary Scottish Singer-Songwriter Ewan MacColl teams up with Pete Seeger's daughter and musician and artist (his 3rd wife) to play one of many of their classic male-female duets....

https://genius.com/Ewan-maccoll-and-peggy-seeger-the-ballad-of-accounting-lyrics

[NOVA Green]

So getting a bit morose and thinking about the falling of the soldiers in the BS Wars overseas....

Thinking about my Grandfathers service in WW II, thinking about my Wife's Father who is deceased who was a Korean era Veteran, thinking of a few friends I met over the years that were Vietnam Vets (Marines, Army Helicopter Medics, Navy bombarding the Coasts of Vietnam from their giant guns).

Thinking of my buddy Eric who died in Iraq 2.0.....

At some point the war comes home.....