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Twitter's informed me that there's a new Gord/Sadies tune for Waterkeepers up: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.swimdrinkfishmusic.com/item.php?id=127">http://www.swimdrinkfishmusic.com/item.php?id=127</a><!-- m -->
It's a cover of Randy Newman's "Louisiana, 1927." I don't have an account and therefore can't listen to the whole thing. I'll probably get one if I'm ever less destitute, but in the meantime, has anyone heard the rest of the song?
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The newest featured artist on Swim Drink Fish Music is Gord Downie in collaboration with The Sadies! Known across Canada as the frontman for The Tragically Hip and one of the country's most passionate defenders of clean water, Downie teamed up with The Sadies to record a classic Randy Newman track for Swim Drink Fish Music Club members: Louisiana 1927.
"The lyrics of Louisiana 1927 are haunting. They evoke a time and a place when people felt like government was turning its back on communities, sacrificing one group of people for the benefit of another. As we see our rights to safely swim, drink and fish disappear on Lake Ontario and across Canada, that sentiment resurfaces for me," says Gord Downie, artist and Trustee for Lake Ontario.
"It is an honour to include Gord and The Sadies in the Swim Drink Fish Music Club. Their performance on this track is incredible, and their commitment to clean, accessible water is inspiring," says Mark Mattson, Waterkeeper & President of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper.
In addition to the featured songs, Swim Drink Fish Music Club membership provides other great material this fall:
- bonus tracks from Contrived (now available), Paper Moon (now available), and Emma Lee
- episodes of Living At the Barricades, the weekly radio program produced by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and broadcast around southern Ontario. Many of the Music Club members are frequent guests on the show.
- a made-for-Canada edition of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Ring of Fire program, broadcast on Air America radio in the United States.
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the snippet i've heard sounds good, perhaps foreshadowing the much-rumoured downie/sadies album in the can...
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mintgreenbird Wrote:i need this
Register.
It goes to a good cause.
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not a bad deal for more than 1 track...
