“Tell Me Why You Like Kamala”
At harvest.ink, a song lyric after “Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt”: “Tell Me Why You Like Kamala.”
Swift FTW
As just reported on MSNBC: Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Reappropriation
The reappropriation of “Born in the U.S.A.” at tonight’s DNC — a song first appropriated by Ronald Reagan so many years ago — makes my head hurt.
“Harris Walz”
Elaine Fine has written a one-minute waltz for piano.
With apologies to Malvina Reynolds
ittle boxes from the White House, Little boxes gone to Florida.
Stand down, Andrew
With thanks to the English Beat.
A Vivaldi for our time
The Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
Music to wait by
Mildred Bailey, “Georgia on My Mind.”
Biden–Simone
A Joe Biden ad with a Nina Simone recording.
“A Message to You Rudy”
A timely song.
“Steel Slats”
“Black Slacks”: The lyrics are so easily repurposed.
Donald Trump is not a jazz musician
Such comparisons are an insult to improvising musicians, who know what they’re doing. They may be working from a set list (of “tunes”). Or they may be engaged in collective free improvisation. Either way, they’re always working with a high degree of sympathetic understanding, attentive to and responsive to fellow players.
A thought for these days
From Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Bach, revised
Elaine Fine reimagines The Coffee Cantata.
A song for the day
“I’m History,” words and music by Van Dyke Parks.
“Seriously”
Featured on This American Life. Composed by Sara Bareilles, sung by Leslie Odom Jr.
Trump music
Mozart. Mozart?
Stand down, Debbie
Inspiration from The English Beat.
“What’s an Election?”
A new song from our son Ben.
“I Won’t Talk”
Yesterday, in Iowa, Ann Romney declined to answer a journalist’s questions about same-sex marriage and contraception coverage. Elaine Fine responds.
This is not your song
Musicians asking Republican candidates not to use their songs as campaign themes.