My award-winning film “The Atomic Bowl” started streaming on PBS.org and PBS apps last week and via Vimeo (you can easily watch it via links here), plus it is airing over many PBS stations. In addition, my previous film, “Atomic Cover-up,” is receiving free PBS showing here in its “short” (28 minutes) version. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for FREE. And there is now a companion e-book for “The Atomic Bowl” with the same title, read more here or order.
You know how most rock groups or singers cry out in protest or threaten legal action when Trump and other Republicans use one of their songs at rallies? Yesterday, Jack White offered full-throated permission to Gavin Newsom for using the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” for his current response to GOP “re-districting” in Texas. Sez Jack:
"Fans of this song and also democracy, notice that I'm ok with this track being used in this manner. Not so much when trump and his gestapo try to use one of my songs. Keep hitting him back Gavin!"
Here’s the original:
Speaking of protesting singer/songwriters: The new collection of never heard Woody Guthrie home-recorded demos is now available (CD, lp, stream)—as I noted in a recent post on the emergence of his classic “Deportees”—and the NY Times in its weekly Friday picks of ten new songs even cited his Fred Trump adjacent “Back Door Dum and the Big Land Lord.” But it also features unheard demo version of a little tune called “This Land Is Your Land,” here with lyrics you may have never heard…….
If that song is our longtime “alternative” National Anthem then “Deportees,” everywhere this summer, is our new one, Here again is Woody’s supremely moving unheard (until now) version:
From Tunes to Toons
Ann Telnaes:
Steve Brodner:
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And there is now a companion e-book for “The Atomic Bowl” with the same title, read more here or order.
Jack White! American treasure Woody Guthrie.
Very good selection of cartoons.
Thanks for the tunes and toons!