25 June 2008

Music Video: "This Town Is Your Town"

| Jonathon Reynolds
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Music Video: “This Town Is Your Town” from Jonathon Reynolds on Vimeo.

I was fortunate enough to be invited to the studio recording session of “This Town Is Your Town”, a new rendition of a classic Woody Guthrie tune with new lyrics specially written by Ian MacDougall for the launch of the Community Alliance Party. This is the resultant music video put together with footage taken on the day.

Lyrics: Ian MacDougall
Music: Woody Guthrie
Audio Producer: Scott Salmon

Please contact me if you are looking for a small studio and the services of an audio engineer – I’d be happy to put you in touch with Scott.

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madman said :

Overheard – thats not a bad song!

(Madman)

It’s pretty handy, hey? More audio from the same at: http://www.fredsmith.com.au/pages/listenpage.html (including the original of the YouTube video. Hmmmm. I wonder which political party could adopt ‘Seven Ways to Pass The Time of Day’ as their anthem…)

Frencham/Smith are at the Folkus Room in Mawson on Saturday 13 September with local Oirish boy Gerry Doyle.

I’m pretty sure ‘This Land is Your Land’ isn’t in their repetoire.

Oh crap…. I just listened to the song, what a waste of time. A request for Ian MacDougall… can you play ‘A long, long way away’?

But I thought “we built this city on rock and roll”?!

Overheard – thats not a bad song!

after recovering, listening to alice’s restaurant, i now feel much better. shame I missed arlo guthrie live at the southern cross club, though…

oh dear…..THIS is our alternative? makes me want to vote labor

Clown Killer7:52 am 26 Jun 08

Jonathon, I think you should take your cue from Ingeegoodbee. RiotACT deserves your unreserved apology for inflicting this on us.

Oh dear.

Oh my giddy aunt.

Um, please know that this is not representative of folk.

Quick, put your tongue in your cheek, take one of these quickly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n46mvt_fwSg and lie down quietly. The pain should subside.

Flapping hell, who died?

I hope the warm tomato party is running. At least those tomatoes could be put to good use when the CAP dirge-singer starts up.

Oh my god. The lyrics are one thing (what does it mean to treat something ‘like it’s the Congo?’) but the whistling! The *whistling*! Oh my god.

(‘Music video’?! Good one!)

How about some policies/initiatives CAP-sters?

Oh to hell with it, I’m voting for these guys:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc

I’m all for anything to get rid of Sonic, but listening to this had me contemplating taking my own life

Deadmandrinking9:28 pm 25 Jun 08

Not even your mustache can save you now, Mr Macdougall.

I’m speechless.

amarooresident12:44 pm 25 Jun 08

So apart from ruining classic American folk songs, what else does the CAP do?

My pedant warning light is flashing: Guthrie didn’t actually write the music, he wrote lyrics to go with a Baptist hymn:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Land_Is_Your_Land

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