social bookmarking tools:
Available RSS Feeds |
---|
- Top Picks |
- Today's Music |
- Editor's Blog |
- Articles |
Add Louisville Music News' RSS Feed to Your Yahoo! |
This Road Of Music
I'd like to say just a few words about the Billy Ray Cyrus phenomenon if I may. "Go get 'em Billy and more power to you." I think the critics and others with so many negative comments about "Achy Breaky Heart" and the huge success it has brought are suffering from spells of jealousy and the like. I also think it speaks highly of Harold Shedd at PolyGlam Records for taking another risk on someone like he did with K.T. Oslin and The Kentucky HeadHunters. In all three cases, these acts were considered very risky and they all paid off big time. Congratulations, Harold and staff!
I've also been watching the campaign craziness begin in the upcoming presidential election. In order to keep my promise about not getting political in this column and keep the subject matter musical, I'd like to just leave all you potential voters with a song lyric my friend Don Henry and I wrote at couple of years ago.
From A Real Good Home
He is hustling gullible clients
and back-sliding friends
He talks like as king dethroned
He looks like an orphan
that the city spit out
But he comes from a real good home
She dangles like a diamond
'round a gangster's neck
She smiles like a well unknown
She leads a life that would
scare you to death
But she comes from a real good home
They were born in the house of milk and honey
A fifty story building
under freedom's dome
They vandalize the dream
with a greed machine
But they come from a real good home
The tenement walls are weeping
and leaking from the tears
where the storms of corruption have blown
Trapped in the grasp
of famine and fear
But they come from a real good home
While some tycoon
sits stuffing his gut
Dealing products of death
on the phone
Feeding a monster that's eating the world
But he comes from a real good home
Now the happy hour waitress tallied up my tab
Her miscalculation was unknown
I didn't feel a thing as I pocketed the change
But I come from a real good home
We were born in the house of milk and honey
a fifty story building under freedom's dome
We vandalize the dream with a greed machine
But we come from a real good home
Cross Keys Publishing Inc. / Headless Horseman Music.
All rights reserved, used by permission.
P.S. See you all at The Rudyard Kipling on Saturday, August 29.