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Crippled Black Phoenix
Ah, I just found another interesting detritus uncovered by eBay. It’s the Crippled Black Phoenix. They’re a UK post-rock band. I’m not sure what post-rock is but their music on their MySpace page isn’t particularly offensive, although some of their imagery is.
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Melody Gardot and her disability identity
Just got the latest Melody Gardot CD, “My One and Only Thrill.” She’s one of those smokey-sounding women songsters that seem to have a resurgence lately–Madeleine Peyroux, Amy Winehouse, etc.
Not only do I like her music, but I’m also impressed with her disability identity. On her MySpace page she talks about the term disability. She, [...]
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Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n' roll
Here’s some good news from the UK disability arts newsletter, ETC. (To subscribe, silvie@disabilityarts.info)
To my mind Ian Dury’s “Spasticus Autisticus” should be the disability community’s rockin’ anthem. If this movie is successful it should help bring the disabled Dury back into public consciousness.
Here’s the news:
Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll
104 films is looking for [...]
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Disability Music: Best of 2007
Best New Disabled Performer (who declines the disability label)
Melody Gardot, www.melodygardot.com
Best Newly Discovered Song with Disability Content by Disabled Artists
Ray Charles and Chet Atkins, “We Didn’t See a Thing”
Best Rediscovered Disability Autobiography by an Amputee in Music
The Barbarians, “Moulty” Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968
Best Reclaimed Disabled Performer
Carl Perkins [...]
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Non-Disability Music: Best of 2007
Best Soul Rediscovery
Betty Davis, www.lightintheattic.net/releases/bettydavis/
Most Surprising Kick-Ass Performance & Roof Raising by an All Acoustic Trio Ever
Devil Makes 3, Mystic Theater, Petaluma, September 7, 2007
Still Rockin’ After All These Years, Garage Rock Division
Little Steven, www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/
Kevin Smith’s State Represents (Web Radio)
WFMU, www.WFMU.org/ssaudionet.shtml
Best Live Show of the Last Five Years
1st three songs by the Zombies, Raven Theater, [...]
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Wheelchairs as symbols
A friend and colleague has his antenna out for disability-related songs since we talked about our music explorations. (He’s fascinated by the use of anthems — both contemporary and historical — and how they connect.) He pointed me to an Alt-Country song, “We Can’t Make It Here Any More” by James McMurtry and a video [...]
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Whew! Disability masquerade
It’s something. I was checking out the Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 CD compiled by Lenny Kaye. The CD pulls together bands that are just pre-psychedelic and are often called garage bands. It’s was influential in the punk era and beyond.
Anyway, the Elastic Band has a song on the CD, Spazz. [...]
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Change in the Zeitgeist
For the second time this week I’ve seen reference to how someone’s disability helped to make a new product or song.
This is the exact opposite of the super crip or the overcomer. It shows a reality that I know. When you’ve got a disability you have to be inventive.
The first is Doc Pomus, a wheelchair [...]
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Punk Band Names
It seems that with few exceptions most punk bands that have a disability-related title don’t have much to do with disability. They’re great names, though: The Chocolate Wheelchair, Handicap Parking, Wheelchair Groupie, Crotchless Leather Wheelchair, and Wheelchair Getaway Driver.
One anomaly is the Angry Amputees, a San Francisco band. One of their members is a quad [...]
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Blind, Black, and Singing the Blues
KPFA, the Bay Area’s Pacifica station, now has a disability show. It’s Pushing the Limits. Broadcast at 6:30 PM on Sundays, it’s broadcast on the web and archived on KPFA’s web site.
On Sunday, February 15 they broadcast a half hour show on blind blues singers, “Blind, Black, and Singing the Blues.”
Please excuse the patronizing comments [...]
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