Category: Songs

Coco Robichaux

26/11/2011

R.I.P. While Robichaux was dying in an ambulance last night and they fêted his life in the Marigny, I was uptown trying to recover from the discourses of my friend’s husband – an insufferable person; I would rather have been walking with Coco, so let’s do it now. Axé.

Paul Robeson

21/11/2011

Our friend Anthony Dubovsky sent this song (above), one we have sung before, and this picture (below) I had not seen before of Paul Robeson singing to and with workers at Moore Shipyard in Oakland, California, in September, 1942. Here is some more biographical information on Paul Robeson. People say Occupy looks like various things … More Paul Robeson

Marco Longhini

11/11/2011

A good conductor is worth a great deal. Listen to the waves murmur, as the fronds tremble. We have sung this song before.  Beautiful dawn: the breeze is your messenger, and you are a messenger of the breeze. Axé.