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Discrimination's Fires
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A Folk/Blues artist from the US Pacific Northwest A Songwriter, Singer, Storyteller, Slide Guitarist & Sawplayer Earthy vocals, resophonic guitar bottleneckin’ and the rhythmic moans of harmonica combine while foot stompin’ pounds out a beat.
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Folk/Blues songwriter/singer/storyteller/fingerpicker/bottleneck slider/harmonica huffer/sawplayer/washboard scrubber/Gadget maker
Reggie Miles... Songwriter, Singer, Storyteller, Slide Guitarist and Sawplayer Turns trash into musical treasure, his own homemade Nobro resophonic guitars, constructed from repurposed junk culled from garage sales, swap meets, thrift stores... Earthy vocals, Delta style bottleneck slidin' and the rhythmic moans of harmonica combine, while foot stompin' abounds, to create an Acoustic Roots Blues sound as authentic as you'll hear north of the Mason Dixon Line. An aficionado of storytelling, tall tales are intricately woven effortlessly into the fabric of music and songs A Folk/Blues fingerpicker of whimsical found and self-penned songs A virtuoso in the musical folk art of bowed hand saw melodies. An award winning songwriter, recording and performance artist who has gained multinational media attention via recent compositions like, "Wall Street Bailout Blues". Featured in a half dozen documentary film and video projects, on the recordings of more than a dozen Northwest artists, in addition to 21 self produced recordings since 1995. What others are saying about Reggie Miles... "Channeled Bukka White, Furry Lewis, Robert Johnson, Ken Kesey, and Salvadore Dali." (Brian G) "Traditional bluesie - brilliant... A mixture of Bluesey, jazzy, juggy, eclectic stuff... Solid" (Rick Fielding) "Shel Silverstein meets Leonard Cohen" (Anon) "Country blues with a novelty twist....a down home gravely voice and a driving slide guitar." (Chris Lunn, Victory Music Review) "I've been to LA. I've been to New York. I've been to San Francisco, Chicago, Memphis, Kansas City and New Orleans and I have never heard anybody like you!" (Anon) "Tom Waits meets Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Great music!" (Chris) "Reggie Miles in my humble opinion is great! It just does not get any better than this. What a talent! Oh, and by the way, I love the sound of that 'resonator guitar' he uses!" (Ron Ryan, Ghost writer for The Dave Clark Five) "One part Sonny Terry, one part Tiny Tim, three parts Mister T" (Amos Jessup) "Extremely entertaining and downright fun! Wonderfully wacky... Reggie Miles has succeeded in capturing the vaudevillian essence of depression era blues. Amazingly eerie, bizarre, interpretations featuring Reggie playing a saw." (Diane Wells)
Song Info
Genre
Blues • Acoustic Blues
Charts
Peak #65
Peak in subgenre #14
Author
Reggie Miles
Rights
2022 Reggie Miles
Uploaded
August 13, 2017
Track Files
MP3
MP3 5.0 MB • 160 kbps • 4:21
Meta Data
Beat
4/4
Vocals
Male
Story behind the song
The undercurrent of discrimination in this "melting pot" of cultures, known as America, has always been evident.
Lyrics
Discrimination's Fires 2017 Reggie Miles All rights reserved Say goodbye to net neutrality Protesting is a felony Abortion's illegal, immigration too Freedom of speech is now taboo Will this criminal nation ever learn Discrimination's fires burn Lower taxes for the wealthy few Higher taxes for me and you Healthcare lost to millions more The rich get richer, the poor more poor This criminal nation's greedy yearn To see discrimination's fires burn The new normal's not normal at all Keep Mexicans out by building a wall Muslims forced into a registry To live in this land of the free This criminal nation took a wrong turn As discrimination's fires burn Fake news is everywhere Alternative facts are what we share Normalization of violence and hate Welcome to these un-united states This criminal nation's hard to discern While discrimination's fires burn The president dodges his personal debt Braggin bout grabbin what he can't get He's a megalomaniac misogynist Impeachment looms on everyone's lips This criminal nation's end of days Discrimination's fires blaze The republic's crashin to the ground Because of a single orange faced clown With tiny hands and skin too thin A bad combover bully's narcissistic win This criminal nation's point of no return And discrimination's fires burn Millions marchin in the street To an anti-fascist protest beat They've had their fill of all this shit And no, they ain't gettin over it This criminal nation better change its ways Before discrimination's fires blaze My county tis of thee Sweet land of liberty Of thee I sing today We've got to find a better way This criminal nation has got to learn Discrimination's fires burn This is what democracy looks like Don Don't bother unpackin you'll soon be gone
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