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| Doo Wop marries Folk. You've entered the Chapel where the Black Velvet Portraits hang...will patrons please remove their hats and shoes? Have fun this year! Send this via song email card!! |
CD: Elvis Is Coming Back
Label: Kolo Records
Credits: Recorded at Perfec-Schunn Studio by Dewayne Schunn. |
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| This song has carried me across many dark murky waters of unknowing...people join in on the chorus without me asking them to do so. |
CD: From Here To Jubilee
Label: KOLO
Credits: Jesse: Vocal; Ron Keithe, Steve Johnson: Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion; T.J. Jones: Bass; Shannon Carey, Cammie Craft, Tashelle L Neal: CHORUS! |
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| Time keeps on slouching towards...the wedding where nobody needs an invitation, just say Pedro Coliche told you to come... |
CD: Elvis Is Coming Back
Label: Kolo Records
Credits: Vocals and Guitar, Jesse Slokum. Conga, Carlito Warrior. Recorded by Dewayne Schunn |
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| Asks a few questions a child might require of a loving parent...marvels at the rigors of the "ROAD"
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CD: From Here To JUBILEE
Label: Kolo
Credits: Ron Keithe, 2nd, and lead guitar. Vicki Helber, harmony vocals |
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| Told from the point of view of a military
veteran, who details how vets get shafted when "bills for bombs" come due"
This recorde to sound as if its being sung in the Capitol Rotunda
It follow the forma of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, with some pointed questions about whether TRUTH EVER marches anywhere...
When this was rendered February 12 this year, folks sang along on the chorus! |
CD: Busker For FREEDOM
Label: Kolo
Credits: Vocals: Jesse, Harmony Vocal Vicki Helber |
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| Written in November 1988, the day before, election day, and the day after...I realized Bush (senior, that is...) would win. JUBILEE was - and IS - a meditation on a "better world a-waitin', and boys, it ain't far off" - to quote Bob Dylan's PATHS OF VICTORY song, from his how- would've-Woody [guthrie]-sung-it? period.) There's no longer any point to 'beating-around-the-bush'... |
CD: From Here to JUBILEE
Label: Kolo Records
Credits: Jesse: Guitar and Vocal, Shannon Carey, Cammie Craft, Tashelle L Neal: CHORUS |
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| Written during the early nineties recession.
I saw a tee-shirt in a store window, of a woman, two children, and a shopping cart full of their belongings...the blank stare on the childrens' faces said much...a few days later, this song was born in one sitting, which only happens for me 15% of the time... |
CD: From HERE To JUBILEE
Label: Kolo
Credits: Jesse, Vocals; Ron Keithe, guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, Marc McCloskey, bass |
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| Written during Desert Storm in 1991 (a palindromic year!)
As dark as it may get, there's a bright new morning...are
YOU Ready? |
CD: From Here To JUBILEE
Label: KOLO Records
Credits: Jesse: Vocal; Ron Keithe, Steve Johnson: Keyboards, Percussion; Chris Hattingh: Solo Electric Guitar |
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| Shadows of FAME meditates on a world in which even rock stars get assasinated! Yet holds out hope for people working in the shadows of the big "players' for decency and justice instead of power and grubby handed grab all lifestyles |
CD: Busker For FREEDOM
Label: Kolo
Credits: Jesse, guitar and vocals |
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| Simple folk song in the guthrie-dylanesque tradition, about those whom the juggernaut of modern society leave to fend for themselves by the way side..."We been tryin' to BEgin...FAR Too LONG, Now...have we not?" |
CD: From Here To Jubilee
Label: KOLO
Credits: Jesse, guitar & vocal |
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| Responds to questions posed to the Busker For FREEDOM over the years...such as: "You do this for money?" "Is this how you make a living?" - the song replies by saying, "Do the lilies of the field toil or spin?" |
CD: From Here To Jubilee
Label: KOLO
Credits: Jesse: Guitar & Vocal |
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| Verses lament the plundering of natural resources, suggest that by co-operation
we can get ourselves out of the fix we
find ourselves in... |
CD: Busker For FREEDOM
Label: Kolo
Credits: Jesse, guitar & Vocal |
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| The ultimate rhyming laundry list song!
Upside down and inside out, a humorous
commentary on pop culture, politics, and
fashion all at the same time, that doesn't
take itself too seriously...ready for a
belly laugh?
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CD: Busker for FREEDOM
Label: Kolo Records
Credits: Jesse Slokum - Guitar and vocals |
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| All about living in the nuclear age...and one of psychic numbness, and how people of spiritual resolve are responding...this song is also known as:
What's Left (It's NOT The END!)? |
CD: Busker For FREEDOM
Label: Kolo
Credits: Jesse, guitar and vocals |
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| Since this song was recorded in the eighties
South African Apartheid has crumbled
As an OFFICIAL "rule of law"
However, the term can be applied to a far
more insidious, because ingrained for centuries, way of looking at others - in Kosovo, and so many other troubling/bubbling-cauldron zones of conflict...that is why I keep it here
Like the song says:
The only cure for the will to WAR
IS the will to PEACE |
CD: Busker for FREEDOM
Label: Kolo
Credits: Jesse, guitar and vocals |
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| In this world of people trying - dying to be SOMEBODY...I'm happy to be Nobody Special, singing on benches, in obscure places, about
what I see, and why this world needs more LOVE |
CD: From Here To JUBILEE
Label: KOLO Records
Credits: Jesse: Guitar and Vocal; Ron Keithe: Electric Piano, Dobro, Bass, 2nd Guitar |
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| gospel with a small g! |
CD: Busker For FREEDOM
Label: Kolo
Credits: Sung accapello...imagine it with a reggae rhythm section, a stax-volt horn section and electric violin |
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| What's an empty suit? Someone gets home, takes off their suit, puts it in the closet and there's Nobody home...could be a professor or
two I've had, a politician without a personal hobby. On rare bad days, it might even be a bench busker...sans guitar! |
CD: Elvis Is Coming Back
Label: Kolo Records
Credits: Jesse - Guitar, Dewayne Schunn - Electric Lap Steel Guitar |
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