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| David Rovics sings at the A16 rally in Washington DC in spring of 2005. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
In this episode:
Singer/songwriter David Rovics visits the show.
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Notes from the interview.
Heat in Portland!
Three Albums since we last spoke
Falasteen Habibti (Self-release, 2014): announcing-new-cd-falasteen-habibti
All the News That's Fit to Sing (Self-release, 2014): all-the-news-thats-fit-to-sing
When I'm Elected President / Wayfaring Stranger (Self-release, 2014): double-album link
last time: david-rovics-140608-music-manumit
another time: music-manumit-podcast-david-rovics
also, the punkcast: punkcast-012-summer-2013-interview
studio time booked in August!
children pirate songs were lacking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_metal ...as Wikipedia says, comes from folk metal
Irish music and pirate music not entirely disconnected
Black Flag Flying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr6DhdHSgjQ
Eureka Stockade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDTvohYPngI
Rovics recently found out about FMA
Kobane
Eric Garner
Charlie attack in France
Charleston
100th anniversary of Joe Hill
sometimes the hook is just one word
forward or backwards. Sometimes he drops the chorus! (but the chorus works as a focal point)
What singles have not appeared on albums?
most stuff makes it on an album
expensive to record in a studio
raising the money ahead of time works!
Producer in Portland
most of the time, songs are timely
What app? Use the camera app and put it on YouTube
soundcloud started ad-supported free accounts (you get part of the revenue)
bandcamp api doesn’t pay for streaming
Rovics is in 1% of album sales!
What do you think of Bernie Sanders?
exploratory campaign!
transportation cost is daunting!
Sanders may be better speaker than Dennis_Kucinich
outgoing track: Kobanê: youtube.com video - BY-NC-SA
