{"id":947,"date":"2012-04-04T13:04:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=947"},"modified":"2015-09-08T07:08:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:08:06","slug":"a-roundup-of-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"A Roundup of S(h)orts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a roundup of shorts, er uh ground up sorts, um, I mean some wound up sports, or wait, I know, a Roundup of Sorts&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>My heartfelt version of Flatt and Scruggs&#8217; &#8220;Roll In My Sweet Baby&#8217;s Arms&#8221; (written by Charlie Monroe) in honor of the late Earl Scruggs. (January 6, 1924 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c March 28, 2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/artist\/song_details\/9464509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/artist\/song_details\/9464509<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Looking over my record deal I consider how much better mine is than ones my friends signed with majors the past decade or so.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>OK please support Jay Roc<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m3u8H-G_FR4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m3u8H-G_FR4<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Friend of a friend sort of, really kind of a distant cousin&#8217;s son!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some old guy in this bkfst nook just asked his buddy how he can get a vibrator for his fone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A guy behind me just told his mom he can&#8217;t talk with her on the phone anymore because he&#8217;s &#8220;coding.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>what was he doing? WOW online.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yes, my peeps &#8211; be ready to look for it. I&#8217;m taking my album art inspirations most deliberately from a Zeppelin, a Miles Davis, a Melanie Safka and a Duane Eddy rekkid.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My luthier just compared my production style in a rendition of &#8220;Follow the Drinking Gourd&#8221; to Lennon&#8217;s &#8220;working class hero&#8221; recordings. That compliment made my day!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it&#8217;s all about?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Listen, I know everyone feels great about their new releases, etc., and we all work so hard and want to hype ourselves, but I can tell you, my debut folk full length that I&#8217;m releasing 12apr12 is very very good.<\/p>\n<p>And as they say in the middle school where I sub the most, it&#8217;s &#8220;mad beast.&#8221; \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/play_now\/song_12648062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/play_now\/song_12648062<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Old and dear friend of mine, David Rovics singing a great new song that really got my attention. Except for the pointed slam at Bruce Springsteen and who I&#8217;m going to assume is Little Steven Van Zandt pretty much every lyric in this song is<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> spot on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We all still live and die by this punk rock sensibility that everyone who makes it is a scumbag, like so many crabs in a bucket.<\/p>\n<p>Having hung out a lot with people like Robbie Robertson, John Densmore, Warren Buffet&#8217;s son Peter, Jacob&#8217;s dad from Twilight and the old blue guy from Avatar, I can say it&#8217;s more about what you&#8217;re doing and how you live your life than what amount of dollars or checkbooks you carry around in your pocket.<\/p>\n<p>And not trying to rib David too much, if you&#8217;re not talking about Silvio Dante, you must mean Rodriguez and not Berlusconi, right? What are you doing man? Tell me what&#8217;s up! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lkw6Uq7nhBs\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lkw6Uq7nhBs<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Marc, I don&#8217;t remember if I told you this, but I&#8217;m a group leader for a group of Tiger Cub Scouts. We had our monthly meeting last night, and we do some sort of activity as a group. Well, I chose to teach those kids a few songs. We did &#8220;Fr<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ybread&#8221; and &#8220;The Shortest Song You Ever Heard.&#8221; Can you imagine a group of kids singing &#8220;Frybread, frybread, make me some frybread.&#8221; I concluded the meeting by telling the kids to sing those two songs at school tomorrow. Neat, huh?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phmlpn\">Patrick Moore<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A feedback recovered from the old IUMA website, thanks be to the WAYBACK MACHINE!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051208014506\/http:\/\/artists3.iuma.com\/IUMA\/Bands\/Marco_Capelli\/lyrics-0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051208014506\/http:\/\/artists3.iuma.com\/IUMA\/Bands\/Marco_Capelli\/lyrics-0.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I hope as my kids get older they stay compassionate, stop to talk to old people, the homeless, the sick&#8230;sing to our military, continue to brighten peoples days and bring them hope.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mr.grits\">Mistr Grits<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gritsworld.com\/press_page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.gritsworld.com\/press_page<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Holy cow! 61st nationally in the Folk charts. Thank you everybody, for helping my music climb like this! (In January it was 300th!!!) Alls I ever wanted &#8220;when I grow up&#8221; was to have people hear some of the songs I write, and you&#8217;ve helped me make that happen. I&#8217;m quite grateful!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/play_now\/song_9895127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/play_now\/song_9895127<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Two NYE&#8217;s ago my Rosebud friend Frank gave up a heavy gig with Baby Phat because it just didn&#8217;t feel right. I&#8217;m sure he had to do some serious soul searching to turn away from something such as that! Now he&#8217;s learning Recording Engineering at a cool school in Chicago. Big ups to Frank Waln; you rock bro!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H3kPW-fE5Yc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H3kPW-fE5Yc<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was while substitute teaching in either Windham or Baltic I came to the realization I can track each and every success and failure in my life back to a specific teacher&#8217;s words and deeds when I myself was but two feet tall or so. And may I repeat, Governor Scott walker you are meanspirited and just generally a very bad person.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>My midwestern eeuu friend Jill says she&#8217;s already seen a bunch of RWBB&#8217;s and SandHill Cranes! I have yet to see either although there have been a handful of robins lately. In my preparation for the first chance encounters with some RWBB&#8217;s (<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">you already know I have an affinity type friendship with the little black, red, yellow &amp; white critters) I give you this song from last year. \ud83d\ude42 enjoy&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/play_now\/song_11152313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/play_now\/song_11152313<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And if you are guessing I might be finally getting ready to start publishing my humble little weekly &#8216;Zine again soon, you umm&#8230; Might be right&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a roundup of shorts, er uh ground up sorts, um, I mean some wound up sports, or wait, I know, a Roundup of Sorts&#8230; My heartfelt version of Flatt and Scruggs&#8217; &#8220;Roll In My Sweet Baby&#8217;s Arms&#8221; (written by Charlie Monroe) in honor of the late Earl Scruggs. 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