Let Celebrate Steve Earle's "The Revolution Starts Now"

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it's being released tomorrow and will blow your mind...you cam listen to the whole CD here:

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/earle_steve/767505/album.jhtml



lyrics here:

http://www.steveearle.net/discography/revolution.php#HomeToHouston

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1. F the CC

F the CC

I used to listen to the radio
And I don’t guess they’re listenin’ to me no more
They talk too much but that’s okay
I don’t understand a single word they say
Piss and moan about the immigrants
But don’t say nothin’ about the president
A democracy don’t work that way
I can say anything I wanna say

So fuck the FCC
Fuck the FBI
Fuck the CIA
Livin’ in the motherfuckin’ USA

People tell me that I’m paranoid
And I admit I’m gettin’ pretty nervous, boy
It just gets tougher everyday
To sit around and watch it while it slips away
Been called a traitor and a patriot
Call me anything you want to but
Just don’t forget your history
Dirty Lenny died so we could all be free

[Radical Activist]

2. I can't wait!

I have dial up so I can't listen on the net. I've been waiting for this album. I heard him play one song from it last month and it sounded like the perfect anti-war anthem. I'm buying it first thing in the morning.

[Nevernose]

3. Holy shit, country music is alive and well!

Maybe not well, but definitely alive...

"Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man's war
Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattoed on his arm
Red, white and blue {something} kinda hard
I left my pretty young wife and baby girl,
A stack of overdue bills and went off to sea..."

Hell yes. HELL. YES.

[Radical Activist]

4. That's the song I heard him play at

the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival last month. When he got to the line "Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man's war" the crowd went ape shit. A thousand people in rural OK just loved it! It's a great song!

[Nevernose]

5. DU database error

[Nevernose]

6. Never heard his music before

Thoguh I've heard the name.Checking out his bio now: Woodie Guthrie festival, keynote speaker at the Allen Ginsberg folk music festival, playwright and short-story author.

Where the hell have I been? He's like Bob Dylan, Woodie Guthrie, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash all rolled into one...

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8. and don't forget he's Air America's newest talk radio host n/t

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9. Rich Man's War

Rich Man’s War

Jimmy joined the army ‘cause he had no place to go
There ain’t nobody hirin’
‘round here since all the jobs went
down to Mexico
Reckoned that he’d learn himself a trade maybe see the world
Move to the city someday and marry a black haired girl
Somebody somewhere had another plan
Now he’s got a rifle in his hand
Rollin’ into Baghdad wonderin’ how he got this far
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war

Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattooed on his arm
Red white and blue to the bone when he landed in Kandahar
Left behind a pretty young wife and a baby girl
A stack of overdue bills and went off to save the world
Been a year now and he’s still there
Chasin’ ghosts in the thin dry air
Meanwhile back at home the finance company took his car
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war

When will we ever learn
When will we ever see
We stand up and take our turn
And keep tellin’ ourselves we’re free

Ali was the second son of a second son
Grew up in Gaza throwing bottles and rocks when the tanks would come
Ain’t nothin’ else to do around here just a game children play
Somethin’ ‘bout livin’ in fear all your life makes you hard that way

He answered when he got the call
Wrapped himself in death and praised Allah
A fat man in a new Mercedes drove him to the door
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war

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7. country is definitely well...

always has been...

we can ignore the crap put out by the GOP/Nashville country types....there's tons of good stuff to listen to

[Nevernose]

10. Alt Country is what they're calling it these days, I guess

And it's pretty hard to find any alt-country in this shithole desert I live in. Except for Willie and Cash and Lyle Lovett and the Dixie Chicks and even Kinky Friedman (the guy on the right in my sig pic) -- I don't hear too much decent country music these days, unless it gets lots of mention on internet bboards. Maybe it has something to do w/ the fact that I swore off c/w when I left Texas 15 years ago, and maybe it has something to do with the fact that Nashville is no better than LA when it comes to music these days.

At any rate -- thanks for posting the link and, to paraphrase John Lennon, "turning me on" to Steve Earle.

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11. try some of these....

Jack Ingram, Billy Joe Shaver, Robert Earl Keen, Chip Taylor, Bill Kirchen, Greg Trooper, Jim Lauderdale (new CD with lyrics by Grateful Dead songwiter Robert Hunter), and definitely Terry Allen (he's a bit freaky, like Kinky F. only, I think, a lot better as a musician and songwriter).

Anyway, it is indeed alive and well...But of course I like a lot of the old, old stuff.

What shithole desert are you in? Just wondering because I'm a fans of deserts...I'm stuck in shithole Louisiana.

[Nevernose]

12. Las Vegas -- the Mojave

Talk about a dearth of culture...

I grew up in a swamp in SE Texas; I'd kill for a bit of rain now and then, even if it means the occasional hurricane and the frequent mosquitoes.

[Radical Activist]

13. Holy cow this album kicks so much ass!

I just got The Revolution Starts Now. It is easily my favorite Steve Earle CD and one of my favorite CD's of any genre. My only complaint is that it's a little short.

This CD is alt country's answer to Rage Against the Machine and Steve Earle is the 21st century's answer to Woody Guthrie.