[2012]
Lyrics by Wade L. Smith & Barry D. Butler
Music & performed by Barry D. Butler
Homeless Vet1

Our Soldiers go and fight these Pathetic Wars for GREED and then come home to NOTHING.
This song is dedicated to these Homeless Men and Women. We are going to use a good portion of any money we make to help them!!!

Homeless Vet2

[2012]
Lyrics by Roger Antony Carter
Music & Performed by Barry David Butler

1998
Vampires, Geeks & Lovers

1995
Pride

1992
Death Or Glory?

[2015]
Lyrics by Alan Jackson
Music & performed by Barry David Butler

"Vietnam War Disaster & Its Heroes:
So many died and were mutilated in the Vietnam War and was all for nothing.
Johnson and MacNamara both said it was a mistake and Nixon who was elected with a PLAN to end the stinking war did it but it took four years....(ugh;)

All that's left is some Old Vets and a LOT of Memories and Names on a Wall in Washington DC....For Shame.....THEY Lied and Boys Died".

[1969]
Album: Green River - 1969

John Fogerty said he wrote this song about his (now) ex-wife about 2 years after they had a child together. Quote from John Fogerty:

“Inspired by my young wife at the time. It was early ‘69, and I was 23 years old. We had our first child, who, at the time, was two and a half. I was sitting in my room, writing the songs, pushing my career. Without the songs, the career ends. You might be a great band, but without the songs, you’re not going anywhere. At one point, my wife and I had a mild misunderstanding, I wouldn’t even call it a fight, She was miffed, taking our young son out, wishing I would be more involved. But there I was, the musician manic and possessed the only guy holding things up. Without me, it all collapses, so I’m feeling quite put upon. As she walks out the door, I say to my self, "I wrote a song for everyone, and I couldn’t even talk to... (continua)

[1969]
Lyrics by Boris Bergman
Music by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (“Plaisir d'amour”, [1784]), rearranged by Vangelis / Βαγγέλης

Aphrodite's Child (Παιδί της Αφροδίτης) was formed in 1967 by Vangelis (keyboards), together with his musician friends Demis Roussos (bass guitar and vocals), Lucas Sideras (drums and vocals) and Anargyros "Silver" Koulouris (guitar).
But when the group went to Paris in 1968 Koulouris had to stay in Greece (for military service).
The first single was released in 1968: "Plastics nevermore" / "The other people" (as a demo for Philips).
The single "Rain and Tears", released in May 1968, was a huge success all over the world.
The first album: "End of the World" was released in 1968.
In 1969 Aphrodite's Child released their second album "It's Five o'Clock".
In 1970 Vangelis started working on the album "666", when Silver Koulouris joined Aphrodite's Child.
The... (continua)

[2021]
Music & Lyrics by Richard Ackon (Richie Brain)

feat. Shaun Friedman

Domestic violence is not physical abuse alone, it can be verbal. This case of violence can happen to anyone regardless of age and gender.. No one deserves to be treated badly in any shape or form. SAY NÓ TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE!! SAY NO TO CHILD ABUSE!

I’ll Take You There
The Staple Singers - 1972

[2017]
Music & lyrics: Shaun Friedman

Song responding to too many killings and school shootings ..

(2012)
Album: Banga

Smith penned this prayer-like rocker for the people of Japan in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated their country in 2011.

The New Yorker uses Japan's highest and most symbolic mountain to help convey her feelings about the tragedy.

"Knowing that my country dropped two atom bombs on Japan and killed a couple of hundred thousand people has always been something I've felt a certain amount of pain about. I imagined the people having to deal with this new situation with the threat of a nuclear disaster. I didn't want to write something directly about that but I wanted to show the Japanese people solidarity and love."

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Smith ha scritto questa sorta di preghiera per il popolo giapponese in seguito al terremoto e allo tsunami che hanno devastato il loro paese nel 2011.

La newyorkese usa la montagna più alta e simbolica del Giappone per esprimere i... (continua)

2019
Natural Born Sinners

[1947]
Lyrics & music by Homer Harris and Lester Melrose
Album: Chigago Blues: The Beginning [1971]

.. and suddenly the cold war (never ended) turns into a hot one and with it the nightmare of "The Bomb" returns .. Let's start all over again ..

(2020)

1992
Deserters

Elena’s Shoes looks at the remnants of a toppled regime, noting the excesses of those in power as the people starve. Riffing on the infamous footwear collections of Elena Ceaușescu and Imelda Marcos, the band use a ludicrous image to make a powerful point.

1992
Deserters

1992
Deserters

(1999)
Album: To the Teeth

I wrote this song after Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot and killed by an anti-choice zealot in my hometown of Buffalo and then, soon there-after, the Southside Abortion Clinic was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.

The year was 1998. i have been digitizing my old master tapes and this is an out-take (not the version that appeared on the album) so Julie Wolf’s piano is not there, which was done as an overdub. this is just me, Jason Mercer on bass and Daren Hahn on drums.

I share this today because i am so very grateful that i was not forced to give birth at age 18 and then again at age 20. i had my two children at age 36 & 42 and being their mom has been the greatest joy of my life. I owe such a huge debt to the incredibly brave women and men who have risked their lives on a daily basis to provide abortion services. I owe you my life. the life i have chosen and... (continua)

Testo dal video della CBS 1959

Water,boy where you hidin'?

An important liberation song in the history of slavery and the civil rights movement is Water, Boy. It is a slave work song, a somber reminder of the conditions black people were forced to live through. Water is as valuable as saffron on the field of a plantation, but I assume it's absence was as normalized as the sun rising and setting everyday. I assume the enslaved weren't given enough water (or anything, if anything) to keep them in good health as forced laborers. I'm sure the white overseers and slaveowners made sure to keep their thirst quenched, though. It's been said, they demanded water and would get the attention of the waterboy by singing Water, boy where you hidin?

Today when this song is performed it is titled “Waterboy” instead of “Water, Boy” and I equate this to trying to soften up the history, but let’s not forget... (continua)

Volodymyr the Brave
© 2022 Tony Smith

While the song mentions the President of Ukraine specifically, it is meant as praise for all Ukrainians in their resistance against the illegal and brutal Russian invasion. President Zelensky stands for Ukraine in a way which few politicians could claim to do in their countries.

2020
Dall'album / From the album In The Ruins They've Left Us, We'll Plant Gardens Still

Richard Carlile (8 December 1790 – 10 February 1843) was an important agitator for the establishment of universal suffrage and freedom of the press in the United Kingdom

1993

Inspired by the Warrington bombings of 1993, similarly to ''Long Long Way to Go'' it discusses that people can get too familiar with violent events when they are part of the daily news, but when it affects them personally, that's a different story...

1985

Painful realisation that for some people war in another part of the world is just "bad news", never realizing that behind their 5 minute entertainment there is the death and suffering of other people. But sure, switch it off....

6 marzo 2022

A QUIET LIFE, an original song from Richard Jenkins. The inspiration for this song was a poem call A Quiet Life, written by Alexander Pope (1688-1744). In fact I've only used seven words from the original which was a bucolic ode to living, working and being buried in your own soil. When I wrote it I was thinking of the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya.

I recorded and posted it thinking of UKRAINE

2002