Dilemma

[jwgh]

On August 5th we've got an interesting gig:

August 5th. FREE OUTDOOR SHOW. Music on the Parkway, brought to you by the Mount Pleasant Crime Watch. Music from 6 to 9. Cheap eats. Chris will play a solo set and sets with Jake Haller and Gabe Luddy, and with Edward Demille and George Hardy.

The issue:

It has been indicated that the Fraternal Order of Police, who are sponsoring this event, would like it if we could play a patriotic tune or two. The problem is that there aren't any such tunes in our repertoire currently and we're not sure what a good one for us to perform would be. I suggested 'America The Beautiful' but I dunno.

So suggestions are welcome. Chris will be playing his electric guitar, Gabe will be playing a miked-up acoustic twelve-string, and I'll be on the piano; we'll all sing. To make your job either easier or harder, here's the set list we've currently got (in no particular order):

• Absolutely Legless (written by Gabe)
• Nadine
• Johnny B. Goode
• The Weight
• The Local Expatriate (written by Chris)
• Leaving in the Morning (written by Chris)
• Before You Accuse Me
• Early In The Morning
• Bend Down Low
• Dead Flowers
• Midnight Special

Comments

While I'm at it

[jwgh]

I would be mildly surprised if anyone from Rhode Island reads this, but if you are that unlikely person, we have a gigs page where you can see when and where we play, on those occasions when we're not playing someplace the owner has told us we shouldn't promote.

[opadit.livejournal.com]

How about "This Land Is Your Land"? A lot of people think it's patriotic because it describes the vastness of the continent like "America the Beautiful." Also Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." isn't nearly as hunky-dory as most people think it is; it's just that his diction is unintelligible.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Sam can tell you how the French horn part to "Stars and Stripes Forever" goes.

Seconding "This Land Is Your Land"

[(Anonymous)]

It's a great song. Actually, what with the Springsteen note in the previous post, Bruce has a great version of it. There's an MP3 floating around on Kazaa or somesuch with his preamble to the song, where he notes why Guthrie wrote it, and so on. I don't know if the MP3 version I have is the same one that's on one of the Springsteen live albums.

- cjc