Writes Les Visible — whose “God Bless you Cindy Sheehan” is #1 on ALL country charts — at SoundClick.com (where you can also leave Les a message):
“Hello everybody, I hope you’ve enjoyed the music. God Bless You All and may Love and Peace sweep the planet…soon.”
Visit Les Visible’s SoundClick.com band page, and the song begins to play automatically. You can also listen at AfterDowningStreet.org. (Via Raw Story.)
Does anyone have a written copy of the lyrics? I couldn’t find them.
They aren’t on the web site, but you might e-mail Les and ask him to send them to you. It couldn’t hurt…
If you have an e-mail address for him, please do so … i have to leave to go with my daughter to the animal shelter.
I’ll post lyrics if I get them.
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God Bless You Cindy Sheehan :: Les Visible :: Lyrics
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Amb. Joe Wilson Defends Sheehan
With the stage set for a possible show down in Crawford this weekend, more prominent figures are lending their support to Sheehan. In recent days, musicians Joan Baez and Steve Earle have performed at Camp Casey. Veteran civil rights activists and many veterans of the Iraq war are camped out there. On Wednesday, former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson issued a statement saying “The Bush White House and its right-wing allies are responding to Cindy Sheehan and the military families’ vigil in central Texas in the same way that they always respond to bad news — by unleashing personal attacks and smears against her.”
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There are interesting songs on SoundClick ~ and some questions raised…
As a sometimes listener to Country Music on radio (20% of my radio time)…and on CMTV (1 or 2 times a week)…I don’t know any of the songs OR any of the artists.
So that said….I love the fact that this song is at the top of the country music list at Sound Click but it doesn’t represent MSM country music radio.
I’ll go away now….
I was getting all excited. I was going to make tie dyed shirts for the whole family for Easter and now this!
In fact there is a soldier in Iraq that wrote about being there – and ‘thank god he’s an American and his kids don’t live there’ that was highlighted on CMTV and CNN with Lou Dobbs earlier this week. Really nauseous…
The MSM is however playing less of Toby Keith and more Dixie Chicks in one red part of SF Bay Area (Sonoma County).
Last Wednesday they actually highlighted a Blue Star mother and the Cindy Sheehan protest in Santa Rosa…and then said paraphrasing here “well we don’t want soldiers going to Iraq either, but not sure that protesting is the answer…”. Fortunately it was 6:30 am and no traffic on the road or I would have had huge road rage accident!
I thought something smelled funny too so i went to billboard and R&R to check airplay and it isn’t anywhere there.
The name “Les Visible” is a joke, no?
soundclick is an MP3 site that skews younger, and judging by his homepage, there is no way in hell country radio is going to go anywhere near him, even if the song is good. Country radio resisted playing Johnny Cash back during Vietnam when he became critical of the war. It’s a format that panders firmly to the jingoistic right, generally, even though there is a long history of country and hillbilly artists writing songs about how poor folks are chewed up by war.
Salon did a piece last week about a recent performance by Dolly Parton at Radio City Music Hall that skewed against the war, but she appeals more to a roots/college radio market now too.
I’m a country fan, actually, and was a buyer for a store that sold a fair amount of country. My store, however, tended toward “roots” or “alt” country fans. The stuff that topped the charts was firmly in the pop or aggressively redneck varieties.
The number one song on the country charts right now is the new Faith Hill song.
I’m confused…. so this isn’t meaningful in the REAL country music world? I don’t know a thing about music charts … went by Raw Story linking it on its home page.
then again … even if it’s not quite the real deal … the Bushites spread disinformation ALL the time … so can we a bit.
oh, not a big deal …
but this is just a big splash in a little pond, that’s all. The MP3 communities trend much younger, and the country that is popular on them (except for the top hits that casual people download) tends to appeal to a different audience than the mainstream country acts. Think college kids who like Conor Oberst or Palace Brothers or the Rick Rubin produced Johnny Cash records.
That world is viral in nature, and something can spread through it VERY quickly. I can’t wait to get home and listen to it.
Conor Oberst or Palace Brothers or the Rick Rubin
Uhoh.. i don’t know who ANY of them are.
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You’ll like the song. It’s quite pleasant to listen to.
I mean Rebel Gary is a great guy but he is kind of a walking country music cliche. Is he going to be camping at Camp Casey when Aloha gets there drawing vaginas? My redneck gun toting red voting cousins from hell define their daily lives by the latest country song, is the family Easter dinner fight called off this year now?
http://www.greenday.com/greenday.html I love Green Day and they have a new song-‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’. The video shows a very young couple and then how he ends up enlisting and ending up in Iraq…
The link will take you to their website where you can play the video. Did I mention I love Green Day..these guys are just cool.
I’ve seen them! When Darcy was about 12 or so, she made me take her to an all-day rock concert at the Seattle Center, mostly to see Courtney Love.
Green Day played early. Very good.
Courtney Love threw dolls into the audience and looked quite out of it … I wandered around and overheard the security detail talking about high she was on heroin. She was entertaining though!
Oh, and this was weird — when we entered, I got frisked ALL OVER by a big black policewoman. Then they told us that once we were in, we couldn’t leave. And I wondered how in the hell I was going to take a cigarette break. Well, I didn’t have to worry about that. Half the audience was smoking inside the no-smoking auditorium! Nobody tried to stop them, so I just lit up too.
First thing I did was click the link.
The song raised the hair on the back of my neck, not once, but several times.
Never mind the Country Charts, there’s no reason we can’t make it # 1 on the “Netroots Chart.”