Iris Dement Wasteland Of The Free

Iris Dement Wasteland Of The Free 2006 Hardly Strickly Bluegrass Festival, October 8th 2006, San Francisco, California. See original concert photos of Iris and other musicians at http://www.wildbayarea.com/p130244596

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• iris Dement
• Wasteland Of The Free
• folk

[K31swiss]

Okay for instance "where poor people are treated like the enemy. Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones it sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy". This in the country that offers anyone the ability to go as far in life as they have the initiative to go and spend trillions on assistance for those who don't . In a country where people who own cars and big screen TV's are considered poor. Yeah yall are right , America really sucks.

[martin000ec]

@K31swiss I don't know, seems you got to turn off Fox News and start thinking for yourself!

[ynotryme]

this song was banned on npr due to content

[martin000ec]

@ynotryme I did a litle Googling and could not find anything about NPR banning the song. However, I found this interesting bit about a Republican (of course) Senator named John Grant. He tried to cut funding to a public radio station WNNF-FM for playing the song. Since I can't post a link on youtube, google World Socialist Web Site and in the search box type Iris Dement. The first article tells this story.

[MrSouthernDragon]

@martin000ec FL state Sen Grant was successful in having WMNF's funding withdrawn. The station was receiving about $100K a year from the state. When news of the passage of Grant's bill was received we held a 24 hour marathon fundraiser and raised $124K in that time. We beat that record after Hurricane Katrina in 16 hours. I wasn't part of the fundraising in 1997 but I was for the final 5 hours of the Katrina marathon. This song is WMNF's unofficial theme song. It's aired all the time.

[martin000ec]

@MrSouthernDragon That's a great story, I'm glad WMNF has adopted it as their unofficial theme song.

It's more apropos today than ever thanks to the mean spirited people of the GOP.

[Tony2581]

Not only does Iris have a beautiful voice, but she actually has political opinions (that don't conform with the right wing pablum spouted by many country artists)...!

[moonlitme]

haven't listened to this for a while....now sitting here blinking back the tears at what this nation has devolved into....vs. what it COULD be. thanks iris for telling it like it is, and thanks for posting this.

[Laskiewic]

America has become a wasteland. Constitutional Rights no longer exist. Functional working members of society thrown in Prison for attempting to work in the U.S.A. Some Christians use more profanity than a sailor at the Diego Catina.Then this song is banned for content . When a Nation sell's their self out to foreign Nations freedom becomes a piece of American History.

[MrRazorblade999]

Capitalism means freedom only if you have lots of money. The poor could just as well live in a dictatorship

[fburtt]

That should be the new National Anthem.

It lays the cold ugly truth right on our lap.

Do you suppose we'll have the guts to do anything about it?

[Eduff5664]

This should be the official song of the "Occupy" movement.

[citizenpat1]

Sing out Iris.. great lyrics

' where poor working people are treated like the enemy '

no wonder they want to ban your song in the Wasteland of the Free

[MrSirDel]

She is wonderful ...of course the establishment hated her..just as bad in UK, I'm not knocking the states, we are just as bad....Lotsa guts this lady