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POPSMost Valuable Progressives of 2008 MOST VALUABLE NATIONAL MEDIA PERSONALITIES: Rachel Maddow and Ron Reagan MOST VALUABLE BOOK (ECONOMICS): James K. Galbraith's The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (The Free Press) MOST VALUABLE BOOK (INTERNATIONAL POLICY): Mike Marqusee's If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew (Verso) MOST VALUABLE CLIPMARKS CONTRIBUTOR: masbury ;)
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POPSRock Hall will honor music innovator Les Paul In 1952, Gibson introduced the Les Paul model, which became the instrument of choice for musicians such as Duane Allman, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. "It's not just his innovation and his musical playing, but sort of the residual effects of that guitar," Stewart said. "It's become the beginning point for so many people in music, particularly rock music." Paul still performs weekly at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. He was inducted into the early influence category of the Rock Hall in 1988. Paul is only the second living recipient of the annual American Music Masters award, which began in 1996 to pay tribute to artists who helped change American culture. Jerry Lee Lewis was the first living recipient in 2007. Past recipients include Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters and Sam Cooke.
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POPSRemember Protest Songs? The Best One You Never Heard! The protest song has played an important role in American history. Anyone old enough to remember Woodstock surely remembers the "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag", and the Fish Cheer that started it off. What ever became of protest songs? Where are they now? There is enough anti-war sentiment to produce some good ones, but the corporations, it seems to me, have choked them off. I know there are some I've missed, but they used to be like flowers in a field... everywhere, and impossible to overlook. The above is, in my opinion, the best post-Viet Nam outright anti-war song I've ever heard, and at 22 years old it is as relevant today as the day it was released. "And the throne, the pulpit, and the politician Create a thirst for power in the common man It's a taste for blood passed off as bravery Or just patriotism hiding bigotry" Where are Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger when we need them?
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POPSWoody Guthrie "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." —Written by Guthrie in the late 1930s on a songbook distributed to listeners who wanted the words to his recordings
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