A Sense of Doubt blog post #2057 - New music - Ani DiFranco and Elvis Costello - Musical Monday for 2010.05

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2057 - New music - Ani DiFranco and Elvis Costello - Musical Monday for 2010.05

29 DAYS - daily countdown to election day


Once again, my TRUMPISTS ARE LOUD post is on hold. I am working on my presentation on comics and racism and so the posts on the next two days will target that content.

So here's a quickie, some new music from two favorites: Ani DiFranco and Evlis Costello.





"Do or Die" from Ani DiFranco's forthcoming album on Righteous Babe Records. Listen here: https://righteousbabe.ffm.to/do-or-di...

CREDITS: Created in collaboration with Dancing Grounds and New Orleans Dance Collective Choreography: Kristal Jones and Laura Stein Dancers: Alexcia Morgan, Amaya Smith, Amira Mumford, Brieze Levy, Chanice Holmes, Daniel Gray, Janet Andrews, Jessica Eugene, Kristal Jones, Randall Rosenberg, Regan Phelps Director and editor: Zoe Boekbinder Video: Sean O'Grady, Justin Nunnink, and Susan Alzner Production assistant: Katie Harvey (Special thanks to Susan Alzner for creative consulting.) LYRICS: do you ever just want to give up? well, me too are you shocked by what people get get used to? do you wake up in a cold sweat? well, that’s sane at least you got a little brain left you got a little brain cuz there’s foxes in the hen house and bad news every day and right there on pennsylvania avenue the sheetless kkk and there’s models wielding microphones chasing maniacs around and everything’s on fire and there’s twisters touching down and i know you got to fight your adrenaline just to be a gentleman and you know i got to fight my amygdala just to keep hearin ya but we can do this if we try if we do this like it’s do or die yes, we can do this if we try if we do this like it’s do or die so let’s pause let us regroup let us recover let us recoup let us remember that we are charmed let us look down at our hands and remember we’re armed cuz yankee doodle dandy didn’t feel free once so he used his pen to pick the locks and yankee doodle dandy did some doosey kinda carpentry when he fashioned that ballot box and if you think your vote doesn’t matter then you’re not paying attention yes, everything they do, they do to keep you from their invention yes, if you think your vote doesn’t matter then you’re not paying attention everything they do, they do to keep you from their invention but we can do this if we try if we do this like it’s do or die yes, we can do this if we try if we do this like it’s do or die do you ever just want to give up? well, me too are you shocked by what people get get used to? do you wake up in a cold sweat? well, that’s sane least you got a little brain left you got a little brain and we can do this if we try if we do this like it’s do or die yes, we can do this if we try if we do this like it’s do or die FOLLOW ANI: Website: http://anidifranco.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anidifranco Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anidifranco/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/anidifranco Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anidifranco FOLLOW RIGHTEOUS BABE: Website: https://righteousbabe.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/righteousbabe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/righteous_babes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RBRecords/ Righteous Babe Radio: https://righteousbaberadio.com

unprecedented numbers of americans have poured into the streets for months now, in the midst of a pandemic, to demand a reckoning with white supremacy once and for all. Black Lives Matter and it is time for americans to stand up now. heed the lesson of the 2016 election: this is not a shoe-in. in november, we will need to vote in such massive numbers as to overwhelm massive corruption. not only must we vote out [#votethemout], we must vote in enough people to pass the breathe act, a visionary bill that divests our taxpayer dollars from brutal and discriminatory policing and invests in a new vision of public safety. we’ve got to vote in people all the way down the ballot who will enact meaningful policy change which rises to this historic moment and heeds the call of the american people for justice. insistent, tenacious, against-all-odds voter participation this november will become the difference between life and death for many. nothing will stem the tide of suffering from covid-19, economic crisis, police brutality, mass incarceration, endemic poverty, entrenched white supremacy and misogyny, deportation and detainment, gun violence, fire, flood, disease, pollution, irradiation, exploitation, forced reproduction, gender and sexuality-based violence and oppression, dis-information, propaganda, corruption, and greed... short of a functioning democracy! let’s harness our outrage and vote. we can do this, if we try, if we do this like it’s do or die. 

the music video for "do or die" was created in collaboration with dancing grounds and new orleans dance collective.

WATCH THE "DO OR DIE" VIDEO

i recorded this song in a semi-abandoned strip mall in durham, north carolina, with some very talented musicians from that area. we all came out of isolation for the session and i wore a mask except when i was in front of a microphone singing. i didn’t know any of the players before the session. the group was put together by brad cook and included his brother phil cook on keys, yan westerlund on drums, brevan hampden on percussion and matt douglas on flute. later, my touring compadre terence higgins overdubbed some more percussion and a string quartet called delgani was added in eugene, oregon, arranged by my other touring companion, todd sickafoose. pandemic productions! -ani

LISTEN TO "DO OR DIE"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/arts/music/elvis-costello-carole-king.html

Elvis Costello Announces New Album Hey Clockface, Shares New Song: Listen

Elvis Costello has announced his next album: Hey Clockface and it arrives October 30 via Concord. Costello has also shared a new track titled “We Are All Cowards Now.” Hear it below, and scroll down for the new LP’s tracklist and cover art.

Hey Clockface includes “No Flag” and “Hetty O’Hara Confidential.” Costello recorded the new album in Helsinki, Paris, and New York. The record features Elvis Costello’s longtime bandmate Steve Nieve, as well as Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, Mickaél Gasche, Pierre-François “Titi” Dufour, and more.

“I sang live on the studio floor, directing from the vocal booth,” Costello said of the new album in a press release. “We cut nine songs in two days. We spoke very little. Almost everything the musicians played was a spontaneous response to the song I was singing. I’d had a dream of recording in Paris like this, one day.”

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