I spent the better part of an hour this week trying to figure out which of my two oldest children first recommended this week's featured tune--checked old e-mails and comments on old posts to no avail. I thought it might have been on a CD one of them burned for me but couldn't find that either. Suffice it to say that regardless of whether it was my daughter or my oldest son they're two very cool souls....
I wrote a post about The Low Anthem in 2016 for their song "The Ballad of the Broken Bones." In the years since, they have released two albums and in 2019 had an international tour. While mass commercial success has still eluded them, they're still performing and I'm sure it beats the hell out of selling stocks or insurance.
"Hey All You Hippies!" is a song on their 2011 LP Smart Flesh. The song was never released as a single, and the album did not chart.
Fun Fact: The just mentioned album was recorded in a former pasta sauce factory in their hometown of Providence, Rhode Island. The recordings are sometimes (and somewhat jokingly) referred to as the "Pasta Sauce Sessions."
There must be something about The Low Anthem's songs that leave me befuddled, because as I reread my post about "The Ballad of the Broken Bones" I saw that I wrote in my song recap that I had no idea what the song was about...and I can say the same thing about this week's tune. I like to think it's a subtle nod to hippies and a slap in the face to Ronald Reagan, but in this day and age one never knows. I do like their rollicking performance (which for some reason, to me, somewhat echoes Bob Dylan's 1966 song "Rainy Day Women #13 and 35"), as well as the song's spirited vocals. In the end, I suppose, sometimes a good song is just a good song--and "Hey All You Hippies!" (love the exclamation point) is a rowdy good tune.
Lyric Sheet: "Please don't rush me/I'm over the moon/I ain't yet fit to come down/A rose is a rose/A balloon a ballon/You've got to go right now..."
Enjoy:
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
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