John Prine ( October 10, 1946 - April 8, 2020) R.I.P.

                                         Love his music,this sad song is still my favorite...

Neil Young - Living with War

 Living With War is the 27th studio album by the Canadian musician Neil Young, released on May 2, 2006. The album's lyrics, titles, and conceptual style are highly critical of the policies of the George W. Bush administration; the CTV website defined it as "a musical critique of U.S. President George W. Bush and his conduct of the war in Iraq". Written and recorded over the course of only nine days in March and April 2006,^[1][9] its lyrics are in line with the early 1960s albums of folk artists such as Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan, although they are set to what Young calls "metal folk protest music" courtesy of Young, bassist Rick Rosas, drummer Chad Cromwell and trumpet player Tommy Bray.


After the Garden

The rhythm section of Cromwell and Rosas and Young's "Volume Dealers" co-producer Niko Bolas were also at the core of Young's 1989 album Freedom, which contained an angry criticism of Reagan-George H. W. Bush America. There are other links between the albums: Bray also performed on Freedom and Freedom's hit single "Rockin' in the Free World" also contained a quotation of a President Bush: "a thousand points of light".



Looking for a Leader

 The sessions were recorded on 16-track analog tape and mixed to a half-inch analog two-track master, then transferred to high-resolution digital media for CD and DVD manufacturing.^[1] The vinyl pressing was on 200 g discs.



Let,s impeach the president.

 On April 28, 2006, the album was given a pre-release premiere in its entirety on the Los Angeles radio station KLOS (95.5) by Jim Ladd. The album was released onto the Internet on May 2, 2006, before entering retail in May 2006. Young has expressed that his intent is that the work be considered as a whole, and the streaming-audio internet release was the whole album, rather than individually selectable songs.



The Restless Consumer

That first impression is so important" ... "Instead of just going to "Let's Impeach the President", people will have to absorb the whole thing. To understand the songs, you need to understand where the whole album's coming from. It protects my right as an artist to have the work presented the way I created it.

— Neil Young

Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s cracking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God

Blue City - Soundtrack by Ry Cooder

Blue City is a 1986 American drama film directed by Michelle Manning and starring Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and David Caruso. It is based on Ross Macdonald's 1947 novel of the same name about a young man who returns to a corrupt small town in Florida to avenge the death of his father.

 I chose the following 3 tracks

    Billy and Annie (written by Ry Cooder)

    Guitars: Ry Cooder, Drums: Jim Keltner,Synthesizers: David Paich,Steve Pocaro,
    String Arranged and conducted by Kirby Johnson

     Not Even Key West ( written by Ry Cooder)

    Guitars:Ry Cooder,Drums:Jim Keltner,Bass:Jorge Calderon, Keyboards:Jim Dickinson,
     Organ:Benmon Tench,Percussion: Miguel Cruz.

     Tell Me Something Slick (written by Ry Cooder,Jim Dickinson)

     Vocals:Bobby King,Terry Evans,Guitar: Ry Cooder,Drums: Jim Keltner,Bass: Nathan East,
     Synthesizers : David Paich,Steve Pocaro.

Van Morrison - Street of Arklow ( Berkley 12 sept.2006)

 Veedon Fleece is the eighth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in October 1974 (see 1974 in music). Morrison recorded the album shortly after his divorce from wife Janet (Planet) Rigsbee. With his broken marriage in the past, Morrison visited Ireland on holiday for new inspiration, arriving on 20 October 1973 (with his fiancee at the time, Carol Guida). While there he wrote—in fewer than three weeks—the songs included on the album (except "Bulbs", "Country Fair" and "Come Here My Love").^[2]


"Streets of Arklow" is a song by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It appears on the album Veedon Fleece, released in 1974.
The song describes a perfect day in "God's green land" and is a tribute to the Wicklow town of Arklow visited during the singer's 1973 vacation trip back to Ireland after being in the United States since 1967.

Big hand from the band!
Crawford Bell -acousticguitar,trumpet,backing vocals. Karin hammil/Jameen Daily- backingvocals.
 David Hayes-bass,Ned Edwards- guitar/harmonica.Tony Fitzgibbons-violin/mandolin.Cindy Cashdollar-steelguitar.John Alair-keys.John Platania-guitar.Neil Wilkinson-drums.


 Note from Arthur:
How nice it is that large screens can be used in the larger rooms. You can see all the details of the performance far from the stage.

This was also the case in the Greek Theater in Berkley, and the boy /girl who was filming made good use of it. Beautiful recordings of the song Street of Arklow from the equally beautiful album Veedom Fleece. Also watch the harmonica  from Ned Edwards,very nice!!


And as we walked
Through the streets of Arklow
Oh the color
Of the day wore on
And our heads
Were filled with poetry
And the morning
A-comin' on to dawn

And as we walked
Through the streets of Arklow
And gay perfusion
In god's green land
And the gypsy's rode
With their hearts on fire
They say "We love to wander,"
"Lord we love,"
"Lord we love to roam..."

And as we walked
Through the streets of Arklow
In a drenching beauty
Rolling back 'til the day
And I saw your eyes
They was shining, sparkling crystal clear
And our souls were clean
And the grass did grow
And our souls were clean
And the grass did grow
And our souls were clean
And the grass did grow

And as we walked