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• An old joke on chords

  Even chord patterns can be funny.
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• singe out.

  Peggy Seeger has written a song to promote the Obama campaign, She let us know about so we are going to post her e-mail and link here. Does anyone sing campaign songs anymore? Well, maybe you could post your mashed up version on youtube and send us the link. Better yet. Text me and I’ll [...]

• The George Bush Coloring Book

  For all my fellow Americans,
  The George Bush Coloring Book was compiled six years ago. Now it is available to you free, online, exclusively from Broadside. While we cannot offer print copies, feel free to print out the pages yourself, color them in, or submit to us your own additions.
  Download it here.
  If you enjoy it, [...]

• Judy Collins at The Carlyle: A Review

   by Norman Ross

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  judycollins.com
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  Judy is an enormously talented musician, and it is a treat to watch her strumming away on her signature Martin 12-string guitar and her unsigned 88-string Steinway piano. Listening to her at the Carlyle though was a slightly different matter. Although she commented on “what a wonderful room” it is, she didn’t say [...]

• Harry Shearer – 935 Lies

  Harry Shearer’s is the voice you hear regularly on the Simpsons but you might have also caught him in Spinal Tap or A Mighty Wind. It took a mighty fortitude to watch A Mighty Wind if you were a folky in the 60’s as he skewered some of the stereotypes so perfectly; self- satisfied, smug, [...]

• New Info

  by Jeff Ritter, ed. Broadside Revived
  At an informal gathering the other day the name of Phil Ochs came up and a former SDS organizer described a great story of his first encounter with both Phil Ochs and illegal drugs in the same sentence! After that we began trying to imagine who the great politically [...]

• Interview with Pete Seeger

  Check out our interview with Pete Seeger here.