http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2006 by the authors Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:46:27 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/12/16/102635.php#comment-466244 Great article!!! 466244@blogcritics.org Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:46:27 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/12/16/102635.php#comment-439172 Possibly: Andy Razaf wrote <a href="http://www.pbs.org/jazz/classroom/printerfriendlylyricsblackandblue.html">"What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue"</a>. Re: <a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/frut-f08.shtml">"Strange Fruit"</a>: "It was written in the mid-1930s by a New York City public school teacher, Abel Meeropol, who was at that time a member of the American Communist Party, and who later became better known as the adoptive father of the two sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg..." Re: "Bourgeois Blues": I like this song, about the "bourgeois town," Washington DC but not excluding the one I live in, but I am conflicted about the authorship. I allow that Ledbelly wrote some of it, but confess that I see a buddy like Seeger coming up with the line "Home of the brave, land of the free, don't want to be mistreated by no bourgeoisie"--but what do I know? Stuart 439172@blogcritics.org Fri, 8 Sep 2006 08:47:39 EDT