It should not be great Depression – so far – for musicians who lack health care of inflation around their horizons. to this end , Sweet relief Charity assembled a new assembly album, “Sweet Relief – We can help”, which features selection covers from artists such as Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson and Blake Mills. But only one singer from the group is heard twice in the group, a person whose name has not appeared in many records recently: Michael Ben.
Two contributions between Pennslevan in this charitable effort are the pre -Classical war that spoke to the number of members of the middle class who were falling into economic ruin in chaos in the late twenties and early thirties – “My brother, can you spare the dime?” And “Glory be to God! I am Boom”, the latter also includes part of the couple Amy Man.
It will add his path to the group that will throw more than a few diets in the way of musicians who are struggling with sweet relief. He was in support of time. “In fact, my first tour” – shortly after his individual song, “No Myth” for the year 1989, was all over the radio – “Victoria Williams had on the road with me, and it was just an explosion. It was at that time dealing first with MS and thinking about forming sweet comfort.”
These two songs were recorded for the first time for the first time in more than a decade, with the intention of being included in a group of previous sweet relief. They are determined that they are not proportional to the mood, concept. But now, with not only musicians, but the wider world is concerned about stagnation (or what is worse?), I felt this depression practically mature on the vine. While “Sweet Relief- We can help” appeared in an exclusive dual vinyl edition for the record day in April, the official digital release of the album was waiting until the end of this week. (Passing down to get a full track menu.)
“The contributions of Penn really pay the Wayback device, but” both songs are applicable now because both of them come out of the historical situations that are similar to where we are heading. “If I was going to do any song at all, I knew” my brother, can you save ten cents “that I wanted to do, because Yip Harburg is one of my favorite lyric specialists in each Ages. ”(Harburg also participated in the writing of” Over the Rainbow “and other songs” Wizard of Oz “as well as” Brothher “.
And then with “Glory be to God! I am Boom, “I was somewhat worried that people will not get rid of it-because it is in fact a mirror of the place we are now. I have written in the late eighties of the last century. The same types of crazy few we have now.”
With “Brother, can you save ten cents”, it was specially captured with a quote and found it about Yip Harburg, from a later time in the famous lyrical life, when he remembered the great anthem of depression. Penn pulled it on his computer and killed him: “It was raised when America was a dream, its people, and hope. An opportunity ever what happened? Ben Tim time was taken by these words:” I mean, it’s completely ideal this way. “
With “Glory be to God! I am Boom,” he says, getting the paradox was very important. “Bill Hain reminded me that the wondering point was an important part of the title.” Notice, from historical irony, “I hear, sometimes the only thing we can rely on.”
Is Penn a student of social and economic songs in the twenties and thirties? He laughs at this question.
“No, I am not. I am definitely not a student in the privacy and songs of Al -Ittihad from the thirties of the twentieth century.” And “Glory be to God” was definitely calculated-which is enough until it is seized as useful in the result in the Charlie Chaplin. “The official anthem of international workers in the world has become at some point,” he notes between, and his extract appears in the “modern era”, when Chaplin mistakes in the protesters of the Union, when the flag picks up from the back of the truck. “
But he says: “It is just things that I did not always think. My last record, God helped me, was 20 years ago, but it was a record in a kind of post -World War Second world. The songs of the relationship were in the context of the post -Second World War in America, where I started knowing that to a large extent on this site, where you were watching ever, where you were watching these old features, where you were watching in this place, where you were watching these old sites, where you were Watch in this type of flat.
“Remember that phrase in which someone was saying that“ O people live in a reality based on reality ”? This was: This is the place where they will go. They believe that they can change reality for us completely-so that they can fill us with publicity and change the way we realize our environment, and it was clear that this is the place he was heading to. So these types of topics were always from the mind for me, certainly.
Bring Man to play the role of a woman who runs the beggar away from her door, makes the role of Fu. “There was like a small dialogue part of this lyric, and I felt perfect for Amy to come and do so.” We should not expect to hear a lot of diodes with Man. He mentioned that the two of them had previously appeared in singing together on a original vacation song called “Christmastime” and the pictorial music cover for “two of us” in the Beatles, who cannot remember whether there is nothing more. “Oh, God, my mind is misrepresented – I do not remember. We didn’t do it much. We keep it to some extent, but for sure these two.” But this at least makes the third.
Penn takes what is happening economically in the world personally, as musicians know well as anyone saw change their full model. This is partly why he has not made an album for original music since the above version of 20 years … although this may change, very soon.
Ben thinks, “Not only in Trump and what happens mainly with the dismantling of the new deal, which was on the books of these men for decades, but also the transformation in our world into a digital world. Because to some extent there was a medium group in music, it may be difficult for anything to buy it. Even in small quantities.
There is no temptation to return on the road at all, if this is the place where the money is located? “N, for me, I mean, I did not enjoy the tour.” If I have Drozron, I will sit in a room that records records throughout my life, but this is no longer on the cards. For this reason I turned into (movie), because at least I can do what I love, which is to record music. So I hope I can make records, but … ”
There is a shift in his thinking now. “You know, I am doing it now” – Work on a new album – “Just because I no longer give shit” whether it enters or not. To achieve this goal, “I told my agent that I did not want to do anything this year. I made a Pee-Wee Herman documentary who just came out; I finished that at the end of last year. I am eating the year to write a record because I just think that I would do that for me … I just will know this for my use. Songs.
So for those who were shocked to get new songs in addition to recording from Pennsylvania … Glory be to God! (Exclamation mark is sound, heterogeneous.)
He says he never disturbed him when the fans appear and ask when there will be another album Michael Ben. “Oh, no, no, I am very happy because a few people still remember me, so this is nice. Listen, man, I mean, if you are outside and get to know someone or say something to me, it is a pleasure.”
“Sweet Relief – We can help”:
Michael Bin and Amy Man – Glory be to God! I am Boom
Laura Ves – Please let me get what I want
Peter Kis – Help me
Angela McClaski and Paul Cantilon – I think it will rain today
Watkins Family Watch – Emotional topic
Peter Holsbel – I can help
Richard Thompson – Oud Man
Ben Harper and Peter – Help
Willie Watson – always raise it
Lucinda Williams – someone lend me ten cents
Dennis Whitcher – this is how I got Memphis
Sixpence Nothing is richer – needle and damage to
Harola Rose – the heart needs a house
Victoria Williams – the sunny side of the street
Chris Pears – Paper Moon
Michael Ben – My brother, you can earn ten cents
Jonah Tolchin – sixteen tons
Blake Mills – while my heart continues to pulsate time
