The Talkin’ Headline Blues is a weekly series of recordings using unedited headlines from CNN.com written as a song. This week’s topic: Topless Police.
King breaks topless climate.
Handgun walks, flies.
Sex here.
CNN most sexy spam.
Police fighting traits.
In honor of opening day of the new baseball season and April Fool’s day, I’m reposting this old tune that I recorded last year. It’s one I wrote a couple years ago, but still holds true, I’m fairly certain, today.
Anyway, PLAY BALL!
Also this coming Saturday night, I’m doing at 45 minute set. I’ll be at a soon-to-be-opened performance space in Logan Square called the Auxiliary (3012 W. Belmont Ave). It’s a fundraising event for the space, and also apparently a pig roast. Check out the invite on facebook. It’s open to everyone and it’s BYOB. All you need to do is make a small donation at the door. I go on around 10pm.
Today’s protest song (the Third Installment) in honor of National Protest Week is called Who Juiced the Major Leagues? It’s a song about baseball written about one year ago when a certain star hero baseball player was accused of and then admitted to using steroids. The song is patterned after Bob Dylan’s song from the early 1960’s Who Killed Davey Moore?
I’m posting this from the road on the way down to Mississippi so there’s not gonna be a whole lot of self-inflicted discussion about this song. There’s not much to say anyway. It’s a song about baseball. Baseball’s the American game. It’s a song about America. We’re all Americans. That’s it.