With an army sergeant using his inside info on the kidnapping of Maduro to win $400,000, and Donald Trump Jr. on the board of advisers to Polymarket, the world, as Jesse Welles sings here, is one big slot machine
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Country Joe McDonald at Woodstock, RIP
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Jesse Welles, as always, up to the minute, gives some recruiting advice, in lieu of the current budget allocation of 75 billion dollars to reward our national gestapo/paramilitary
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Monday morning, Nat King Cole reminisces about a summer Sunday.
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Monday morning, It is what it is. Another Jesse Welles gem. This guy is writing topical songs as fast or faster than Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton used to in the Sing Out! days.
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What a voice. You can read about the singer here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavela_Vargas
And the eerie legend of La Llorona:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Llorona
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Monday morning, Shut Up and Kiss Me wonder where’re you gonna sleep tonight.
This catchy song was originally a big hit for its singer-songwriter, Scottish Amy Macdonald, who wrote it when she was only 16. The song made its way all through Europe a decade and a half ago, and landed here with this Romanian band.
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Monday morning, it’s Martin Luther King Day, and Capitalist Class Leader Inauguration Day, but Jesse Welles reminds us how things actually work.
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Monday morning, 450 million + YouTubers can’t be wrong. Mark Knopfler’s and Dire Straits “Sultan of Swings” was an original lyrical, musical and guitar instrumental rock achievement.
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And we’ll finish off the week with one more great song from Jesse Welles
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What the heck, let’s make it an all Jesse Welles week. This guy grows on me every day more and more.
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Monday morning, another great song by Jesse Welles. It’s gotta be one of the best anti-war songs I’ve heard in the last fifty years. Take good care of yourself, kid, the world’s going to need you.
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This is the first I’d heard of Jesse Welles, but he’s quite the songwriter.
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Monday morning, a live version of “Pleasures of the Harbor” by Phil Ochs, an island of calm during a raucous Carnegie Hall concert.
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Monday morning, banjo legend Earl Scruggs pays a visit to Joan Baez’s house in the California hills. It’s 1972, and the courageous Earl Scruggs was the first (and one of the very few) major country western star to have come out against the Vietnam war.
Earl decided he wanted to expand his musical horizons, so he paid a visit to a slew of young singers, including Dylan and Baez. Documentarian David Hoffman got it all on film and turned the footage into an award winning documentary.
Here’s a scene at Baez’s home with Baez singing “Love is Just A Four-Letter Word” and Scruggs playing backup. Baez’s singing voice here is incredible, unearthly almost, just sitting there in her living room with no equipment. Earl’s talented 16 year old son Randy is on the other side of Joan, playing guitar.
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Yet another version of a country favorite by John Hartford. Elle Cordova and Toni Lindgren are the lyrical lasses here.
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Monday morning, as our thoughts turn to a Texas trip, Pete yodels T for Texas and that gal named Thelma for a Czech crowd.
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Steve Poltz raises a glass and sings to modern medicine!
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Monday morning, a short-haired Steve Poltz sings the truth concerning an unfortunate knuckle sandwich incident.
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This was from a TV special shown only once, a nice end of summer treat.
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Fifty-three years after Ten Years After, a powerful video to accompany the song.
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Monday morning, a very lovely cover of the Don McLean classic song about Mr. Van Gogh, performed by George Clements.
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