(Video contains explicit lyrics)
For too long now, the airwaves have been filled with the ratcheting up of the political rhetoric. It is force-fed to us by the 24 hour news cycle on TV and radio, and foments an 'us against them' mentality. I am a news junkie, so I watch all this in stunned silence. It seems to me that most people are not aware of this battle raging; that most are living their lives in blissful innocence of this daily media diatribe; that they are not glued to TV the way I am. And that is a good thing. After the Tucson tragedy, leaders have called for a tamping down of the dialog, a return to civility in the discourse. At the beginning and the end of all this, it seems to me that we are all Americans first, and that Democracy is about compromise. No one side has all the answers, and the First Amendment offers us a wide open window to express what we are feeling and thinking. And that is a precious thing.
Why am I laying down this preamble to today's video? Because it might just offend. And if it doesn't, something else on Todd Snider's new CD just might! Tuesdays are release days, and today is the debut of the long awaited double CD Todd Snider Live: The Storyteller. Todd is a funnyman, a tunesmith, as well as a latter day folkie protest singer populist. He spends a lot of time in the crafting of this stuff, as artists are supposed to do. They reflect the society they live in, and cast the image back for our perusal. Todd does that brilliantly. Catch him if you can as he kicks off a string of dates tomorrow with two nights at Joe's Pub in New York. From the new CD, here is "Stuck On The Corner."
- Jessie Scott
