FUNDAMENTALLY.AMERICANA

by Fray D. Jay

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An Independence Day Mix for a Struggling Democracy

01. Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
02. Love – Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark & Hilldale
03. Ruthie Foster – Fruits of my Labor
04. Tom Waits – Rain Dogs (Live)
05. X – See How We Are
06. Giant Sand – Yer Ropes
07. Steve Earle – Amerika V 6.0
08. Robbie Robertson – Ghost Dance
09. Asobi Seksu – Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
10. Neil Young – Revolution Blues
11. Dylan LeBlanc – If the Creek Don’t Rise
12. Cat Power – Lived in Bars
13. The Ropes – Love is a Chain Store
14. Phosphorescent – (South of) America
15. Pearl Jam – People Have the Power (live)
16. Leon Ware – Why I Came to California
17. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Floppy Boot Stomp (Original Mix)
18. Steve Earle – Jerusalem
19. Ryan Adams – La Cienega Just Smiled
20. Monahans – Seabirds

This is a mix made for a July 4 gathering, America’s big celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which pronounced:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal …..”

Well, not quite – women were not granted universal sufferage in the U.S. until 1920, African-Americans, although enfranchised in 1870, were not effectively free to vote nationwide, because of Jim Crow laws, until the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Native Americans, referred to in the Declaration of Independence as “merciless Indian savages” (and hence not “men”) couldn’t vote until the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924. Even then, some states refused to enfranchise the indigenous peoples of the United States, with Utah the last to capitulate in 1956.

Now all citizens (without a felony record) have the right to vote but a staggeringly high percentage of Americans don’t even bother!

Well, “If You Don’t Vote, Don’t Bitch!”