"Songs for Mahmud" - New David Rovics CD

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"Songs for Mahmud" new David Rovics CD, freely stream or download online.

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1. Miami The FTAA protests
in November, 2003 involved some of the most coordinated and unprovoked
military-style assault on nonviolent protesters I’ve ever heard of or seen.

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2. Operation Iraqi Liberation Proof
that there are some brilliant satirists who have infiltrated the government at
it’s highest levels, “OIL” is, in fact, the acronym first (briefly) used to
name the invasion of Iraq, which was later changed to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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3. The Face of Victory Welcome
to the next Oklahoma City (and many other developments). The veterans of war
are returning.

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4. Song the Songbird style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sings
In memory of Mahmud al-Qayyed, age 10, killed by Israeli occupation forces for
the crime of catching songbirds in the Gaza Strip.

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5. They’re Building A Wall From
Warsaw to the West Bank, the parallels are absolutely chilling.

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6. Who Would Jesus Bomb? My
musical response to an encounter with some rightwing evangelical types at a
supermarket in Houston.

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7. Evening News I watched “CBC
National” one night in a hotel in New Brunswick. It was such outrageous
propaganda, I had to write a song about that one evening’s newscast. CBC is
right up there with Foxhole News, but I just wasn’t expecting it to be quite
that bad, so it was a bit of a shock.

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8. Here At the End of the World The planet is still dying,
incidentally. Very rapidly, in the scheme of things.

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9. Used To Be A City A song about a post-industrial US city. I had
Danbury, Connecticut in mind. Change a couple of lines and it could have been
about most cities in the US.

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10. More Gardens Song Ariel from More Gardens in NYC said I should
write a song about this wonderful network of people, so I did. They go around
planting gardens with local communities on vacant land that somebody ostensibly
“owns.”

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11. Butcher For Hire John Timoney. Police chief during any mass
convergence these days, it seems, from Philly to Miami to Boston, and even an
advisor to the NYPD during the same summer. When the heads of nonviolent
protesters need to be cracked to protect democracy, Timony seems to be the man
for the job.

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12. Trafalgar Square When the statue in the anti-war/anti-Bush
protests in London, November, 2003 was toppled, it was a beautiful sight. And
more authentically popular than the toppling of that statue in Baghdad, I might
add.

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13. Song for the SOA #2 The community that can be found outside the
gates of Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia every November is a beautiful thing,
despite the reason for the semi-annual formation of that community (the US Army’s
School of the Assassins). This song celebrates that community.

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14. All The Ghosts That Walk This Earth If you look closely, you’ll
see them. They’re everywhere. This is about one named Eric.

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15. Korea During the US war against the people of North Korea in the
1950’s, one in five people in North Korea were killed, and every structure was
destroyed by bombs dropped by the US in the biggest bombing campaign in history
up to that time.

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16. I Wanna Go Home For the Palestinian refugees, who, at the core of
the whole thing, just want to go home.

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17. Moron An ode to GW, and to the Canadian government minister who
had a brief moment of straightforward honesty when she called him what he most
obviously is. (Others say he’s a sociopath rather than a moron. I disagree. I
firmly believe he is, in fact, both.)

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18. The War Is Over GW said so, from atop an aircraft carrier, so it
must be true.

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19. The Battle of Blair Mountain I read the book by Lon Savage,
Thunder In the Mountains, and wrote this song, about the biggest battle in the
West Virginia Coal Mine War of 1920-21.

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20. Oppositional Defiant Disorder It’s not us that have psychiatric
problems, by and large—ODD, ADD, SAD, etc.—it’s society that causes anxiety and
depression. I had young Alex of Ever Reviled Records in mind, but it could be
about...you!

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21. What If You Knew What
would you do if you were seeing the truth every day on TV, rather than
neoliberal/neoconservative, pro-war propaganda?

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Liner Notes for Songs
for Mahmud:

Dear listener,

For a variety of reasons much too dull and vague to bother explaining here, I
figured I’d self-release my next CD, and I figured I’d do a solo acoustic
thing. I had a few days off in early March, 2004, went into href="http://www.sugarhillstudios.com/">Sugar Hill Studios in Houston,
Texas, spent a few hours there one evening and recorded these songs. Three of
them appeared as “previously unreleased tracks” on the href="http://www.akpress.org/">AK Press/ href="http://www.daemonrecords.com/">Daemon Records release, href="http://members.aol.com/drovics/bestof.htm">Behind the Barricades: the
Best of David Rovics. Otherwise none of these songs have previously been
released on CD. Most were written since my 2003 release, href="http://members.aol.com/drovics/return.htm">Return (on href="http://www.everreviledrecords.com/">Ever Reviled Records), was
recorded.

In the listing of songs coming right up I’ve sought to
make the song descriptions succinct and radio-friendly (as with the songs
themselves). If you’ve got a radio show or any other such thing like that or
you know somebody who does who should have this CD, please feel free to contact
me and I’ll happily send out as many as might be used for such purposes. If you
go to my website, www.davidrovics.com,
you’ll find my contact information by clicking where it says “contact me.” If
you click on “radio” you’ll find the emails for the labels that released my
previous two CD’s—they’re also happy to send copies to interested radio people
and other folks like that.

Whether this CD gets “out there” depends pretty much
entirely on the efforts of the grassroots, the listeners, the activists and
other folks who think this music has value. In order to facilitate this
process, I have audio files of all of the songs from all of my recordings
available for free download on my website. I also encourage the copying of this
or any of my other recordings. (Of course, you can also buy them on my website,
retail or wholesale.) There you’ll also find lyrics to everything, sheet music
to most, and lots of other stuff. I encourage you to go to my website and send
me an email. If you want to get on my email list, then you’ll hear about my
upcoming performances in your area and can tell your friends about the next
show...

The CD was mastered in Houston at Essential Sound. The
graphics were done by Michael Rutzou. I wrote and played all the songs. As for
the politics, I’ll just let the songs do that and sign off here. I hope to see
you on the road and in the streets!

Love and solidarity, David

P.S.: As it turns out, Ever
Reviled Records is also playing a role in this release, so it’s kind of a
self/ERR release, or something like that...