If this is your first Thursday Tap with me, let me explain how it works. First off, I open either iTunes or my iPod and pick one of my favorite songs. It might be a classic, it might be a current radio hit, or it might be something completely off the wall. You never know what you might get! So here we go…
Mason Jennings
Ballad of Paul and Sheila
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This song is such a emotionally charged song, I’ll let someone else explain it better than I can…
“The most poignant moment on Use Your Voice is a song called “Ballad of Paul and Sheila,” which Jennings wrote after he turned on the TV in his hotel room in late October 2002 and learned about the plane crash that killed Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, their daughter Marcia and five others. It is difficult to write songs about political topics that retain enough universal qualities to appeal to anyone–especially an emotionally charged topic involving a populist senator, earmarked by the Bush administration as an enemy, whose plane went down a week before the mid-term elections under what some call suspicious circumstances. But Jennings pulled it off, mainly by keeping it simple and articulating how the tragedy affected his own heart.” – Source
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May 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
this song is the shit…just think that if paul hadnt died then we never would have had to deal with that fucker norm coleman.