It doesn’t need to be one Great Depression – Nevertheless – for musicians who lack health care to reduce their possibilities. to that end, Sweet relief Charity has put together a new compilation album, “Sweet Relief – We Can Help”, including artists such as Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson and Black Mills. But only one singer is heard twice in the collection, and it is someone whose name has not recently appeared on a lot of records: Michael pen,
Penn has two contributions to the Classic Prever Anthem, who in the late 20s, how many members of the middle class were falling into economic waste in the late 20s and in the early 30s – in the early 30s – “Brother, can you leave a dime?” And “Halelujah! I am a butts,” in the latter part of which also includes a couple part Amy Maan,
Their two tracks will collectively add the ways of more than some struggling musicians who support sweet relief. He has been a supporter for some time. “In fact, my first tour” – immediately after his breakout single, the “no myth” of 1989, all were on the radio – “I had Victoria Williams on the road with me, and it was just an explosion. It was around the time when she was working with her MS diagnosis for the first time and thinking about giving sweet relief.”
These two songs were actually recorded for the first time more than a decade ago, intending to join the previous sweet relief compilation. It was determined that they were not ideologically fit in the mood then. But now, not only with musicians, but also about the wider world recession (or worse?), These depression songs felt practically ripe on the vine. While “Sweet Relief-V Cain Help” surfaced in a special vinyl double-LP version for Record Store Day in April, the official digital release of the album waited until the end of this week. (Scroll down to a full track list.)
Penn’s contribution actually runs the weback machine in a difficult manner, but “These two songs are now so applicable because both of them come out of historical conditions that we move forward,” says Penn. “If I was going to do any song, I knew that ‘brother, can you leave a dime’ was the one I wanted to do, because Yip Herberg is one of my favorite lyricists of all times.” (Harabberg co-written “Over the Rainbow” and other “Oz’s Wizard” as well as “Bhai”).
“And then ‘Halelujah! I am a butts,’ I was a little worried that people would not get its satire-because it is really a mirror image where we are now. It was written around the time when Oligars and Uddhars-Industries Titans’ The same kind of crazy squares that we now have.”
“Brother, can you leave a dime,” he was specially taken with an quotation that he found about Yip Herberg, later in the life of the famous lyricist, when he was remembering his great depression anthem. Penn pulled it to his computer and narrates it: “When America had a dream, and its people, an hope. Did we grow up. Did we struggle against the hut of slavery or a hut of the scatter, hope that in 1930, this dream was more full. They ever knew what happened. The pen was taken. The pen was taken by those words:” I mean that is very true. “
“Halelujah! I am a bum”, as he says, it was paramount to cross the irony. “Bill Hen reminded me that the exclamation point was an important part of the title title.” Among the historical satire, he noted, “Listen, sometimes this is the only thing we can trust.”
Is Penn a student of socio -economic songs since the 1920s and 30s? He laughs at that question.
“No, I am not. I am definitely not a student of union songs and out of union songs since the 1930s.” And “Halelujah” is definitely counted as that-for this it is enough to be launched as an instrument in a Charlie Chaplin sound picture score. Pen notes, “Pen notes,” and a snipet shows in ‘Modern Times’, “It became the official anthem of the world’s international workers at some point when Chaplin is wrong for a union protestor when he raises a flag behind the truck.”
But, he says, “This is just the goods that I always thought. My last record, God Help Me, was 20 years ago, but it was a record set as the world after World War II. It was a relationship songs in the context of the post of Second World War, where they were starting to find out how the new deal was removed.
“Remember the phrase where someone was saying that ‘you guys live in a reality-based community’? It was a clue: This is where they are leaving. They think they can completely change the reality for us-that they can fill us with propaganda and the way we can change our environment, and it was clear that it was the place that was at the top for forever.”
Bringing the value to play a woman’s part that makes a beggar away from her door, makes a fu turn. “The song was like a small dialogue part, and it felt perfect for Amy to come in and do so.” It is not that we should expect to listen to a lot of couples with Mann. Reminded that both of them first sang together on an original holiday song called “Cristmastime” and singing a soundtrack cover of “two of the two” of Beatles, saying, he could not remember if there is more than that. “Oh, God, my brain has been added – I don’t remember. We have not done it too much. We keep it separate to some extent, but of course both of them.” But it makes for at least one third.
Penn is individually happening financially in the world, as he knows musicians well, as much as anyone has seen his entire paradigm change. It is partly that they have not created an album of original music since 20 years old release … although it can change very soon.
Penn is thinking “not only about Trump and originally with the disintegration of the new deal, which has been on books for these people for decades, but also shift to a digital world in our world. Because whatever extent there was a middle class in music, it is not doing anything.
There is no temptation to go back to the road, if it’s money? “N., for me, I mean, I never had fun to visit. I was like a original showser. I am like an anti -performance,” he laughs. “So if I had my druthers, I would be sitting in a room in a room throughout my life, but it was no longer in the card. So I moved to the creation of (film), because it’s at least it is as if I can do what I love, who is loved. So I want to record, but …”
Although there is a change in his thinking, however. “You know, I’m doing it right now” – is working towards a new album – “Just because I don’t give anymore” does it bring in income or not. And by that end, “I told my agent that I didn’t want to do anything this year.
So for those who have struggled to score out of the pen as well as to get fresh songs … Halelujah! (The exclamation point is intact, indifferent.)
He says that it is never upset when fans come and ask when another Michael Pen album will happen. “Oh, no, no. I am very happy that some people still remember me, so it’s good. Listen, man, I mean, if I am out in the world and someone recognizes me or says something to me, it’s a pleasure.”
Full “sweet relief – we can help” track list:
Michael Penn and Amy Mann – Halelujah! I am a butts
Laura Viers – Please get me what I want
Peter Case – Help Me
Angela McCluski and Paul Cantellan – I think it’s rain today
Watkins Family Hour – The Object of My Sneh
Peter Holspal – I can help
Richard Thompson – Hampi Back Man
Ben Harper and Peter Case – Help
Willy Watson – Always pick it up
Lucinda Williams – Somebody gave me a dime loan
Dennis Vichar – is how I got Memphis
Sixplace is not rich – needle and damage
Haraula daily – a heart needs a house
Victoria Williams – towards the sunshine of the road
Chris Pierce – Paper Moon
Michael Paine – Brother can you do a dime
Jona Tolchin – sixteen tons
Black Mills – While my heart keeps time with time
