 Elijah McLean, Elijah McLean What did you do for them to treat you that way? Elijah McLean, Elijah McLean You were just going home, they should have left you I can't breathe, I might be right here My name is Elijah McLean, and that's my house I was just going home, I'm an introvert I'm just different, that's all, I'm so soft Elijah McLean, Elijah McLean What did you do for them to treat you? Elijah McLean, Elijah McLean You were just going home, they should have left you I have no gun, I don't do that stuff I don't do any fighting, why are you attacking me? I don't even kill flies, I don't need meat But I don't judge people, I don't judge people Who do Elijah McLean, Elijah McLean What did you do for them to treat you that way? Elijah McLean, Elijah McLean You were just going home, they should have left you Forgive me, all I was trying to do was become better I will do it, I'll sacrifice my identity I'll do it, you all Elijah, try to forgive me I'm a mooch and I'm sorry, I'm so sorry I'm very strong, teamwork, I'm sorry I wasn't trying to do that, but I just can Elijah McLean, Elijah McLean What did you do? Elijah McLean, you were just going home, they should have left you I don't think I've ever had an accordion in the studio when I've done a cabaret, so I think you might be a first Oh, okay, I've done plenty of them in here over the years Yeah, this is my first time with you as well Yeah, perfect, perfect, it's a pleasure, thank you Sounds great, cool So, let's see ladies and gentlemen This is K. J. N. U. Boulder Denver and Fort Collins And my name's Will Chustep and thanks for tuning in to the cabaret program here Silent Bear, what's the next tune, man? Well this one, this past summer I was doing some traveling in South Dakota I stopped in Rapid City, I was visiting a friend over there She was working for a tourist spot Fort Hayes where they had to set for dances with wolves So she got some passes for some other spots We checked out a place called Reptile Gardens In some ways it's good because the kids, they like to see those animals But then you see cobras and big snakes They're like 12 feet long and then this little diorama type thing When we went outside there's Cheyenne the Bald Eagle And it's female eagle she was shot in the wing And they restored her, saved her life But now she's there in one of those exhibits And what I noticed right away was her beauty And then I kind of communed with her spirit And this is what came out, it's called Cheyenne the Bald Eagle Cheyenne the Bald took a bullet to her She was flying over South Dakota Above the Cottonwood trees Now she sits in a diorama In a tourist trap on Route 16 Where all the tourists go get her And feed her stale saltills Cheyenne, Cheyenne, Cheyenne It fills the sky Cheyenne, Cheyenne, Cheyenne, Cheyenne Like a mystery from all The glory have been taken from your safe In a poor man's reservoir He's not for safety's stank Stole your gift of life They could not touch you Cheyenne, Cheyenne, Cheyenne, Cheyenne A mystery from all They took you to the Spotted Eagle Cheyenne, Cheyenne, Cheyenne That's a beautiful song man, how old is that? That's my most recent one I want to say Within the last two months I think I debuted at an open mic at the roots I did a songwriter show with Clay Rose There back last summer That was probably right before the trip Cool, cool man, that's awesome Awesome story, beautiful, beautiful And Dave, nice add-ons with that Playing with the accordion, that's really cool Really cool What's next song man? We're going to switch gears a little bit Of a real, a dear friend out in Aliquipa, Pennsylvania His name is Roman Morocco Also a great lyricist And through the years I'll always hit him up And you got anything for me And he sent me this lyric And it kind of taps into like an iconic archetype Of the freight train Something about Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee And Elizabeth Cotton and Lightning Hopkins They're all Howlin' Wolf They all tapped in Pete Seger and Woody Guthrie To that archetype of the freight train So that's what this song is called Freight Train I like to dedicate it up My friend, he lost his mom unexpectedly A few months back So dedicated to her memory Yes, yes Look out mama, can't you hear that sound There's a screaming freight train Leaving out of town Gonna take me far away Gonna bring me better day I just wanna run To another stage You gave me anymore distance There's a satellite Where the stars burn high With the music in a rock and roll That was good What was the gentleman's name that wrote the lyrics again? Roman Morocco Roman Morocco from Pennsylvania, huh? Aliquipa, yeah I knew him when I used to live back in New York Artistic community back there Nice, nice, that's cool man Nice tune, nice tune Oh man, I got a question for you Silent Bear I've seen you play this guitar for years We've known each other for quite a period of time You've worn a hole through the sound board on it On this thing How long have you had it and what year was it created? I think I got this I was telling Dave I did my first CD back in 97 So I wanna say I got this in 96 Right before we did it About six months before we did those sessions We did that back at Maple Shade Records My dear old friend Khalil Kwame Bell Great percussionist from out there Produced by Larry Willis, a piano player Jazz piano player So I got the guitar back then But this is the natural wood series So they don't have any pickards on this So I like to say, I could say that I'm trying to emulate to Willie Nelson Charing up my guitar You're working on it man It's just that I don't have a pickard And it doesn't affect the sound really So I said, well, I'll just, oh not your all Right, right, right, right on man Right on, cool, cool, nice This is KJNU, Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins I'm Will Two-Step, this is Silent Bear And Dave Willie on the far end over there On accordion ladies and gentlemen And yeah, we got about 40 minutes left In the program here, so what's next Silent Bear? Alright, first change the harmonica Okay, no problem Let's talk about what you do that Dave, your first time I've had you on You've been here a long time over the years And you founded a band called Hamster Theater, correct? Yes, yes, co-founded it with John Stubbs Okay, what year was that man? 93 I believe 93, yeah, yeah I remember I got turned on to them I listened into KJNU Yeah, sure, yeah, they played us on KJNU And actually it seems like everything that I've done Has been promoted by being played on KJNU Cool I have a band called Three Mice Which is, you know, three or four people Right And they played the heck out of it Back Barry in 99 Right, right, yeah And Farrell Lowe played the heck out of it Cool And that was really good for us, you know Right, right And currently you're playing with Dexter Payne, right? Yeah, I play with the Dexter Payne quintet Sometimes it's a quartet But usually it's more... It's Brazilian music Cool, man Right on All right, good silent bear Yeah, no problem, man So if you like what you're listening to Silent bear has got a trio And license number one in Boulder In the basement of the Boulder Rado On May 24th From 9.30 to about 12.30 He'll be playing And then also he'll have On the last Friday of the month Last Fridays of the month From there on out for a period of time He'll be doing a residency there On the last Fridays Thank you, I'm looking forward to that And back to the music here This is a song I wrote back Probably in the Bush years, so I want to say It was originally touching on Paradoxes and contradictions, you know Like you build someone up You give them weapons and later on Now you decide you don't like them So you've got to hunt them down And kill them or you're talking about Evil and terrorism and your dad's Former head of the CIA You know, maybe the grandfather Finance, the Nazi party Or something like that Then what exactly is a holy war? We all have the same father Same mother, if you cut the skin We all bleed red So this song's called Shadow Lines When a man is a whole Affirm contradictions Like a lightning bolt in the sun In his dreams laid tangled In a spider's knot In the web of the chosen one And the mystery's eyes are broken With red blood spilled in the sand And he walks through the gate With blood on his hands Into the shadow In the times of law And feelings of holy numbers But there's no match for the chess In the windows of awe With cold hearts torn In the rocket's red glare The bombs bursting in air Into the shadow Into the shadow In the gar As the whole fossils Come charging with their love In the hole Till there's no one left to be And it's a lack of respect And I got off Into the shadow Into the shadow Into the shadow Into the shadow Into the shadow Into the shadow Nice, real nice I've got two questions for you this time, Silent Bear One's from a listener I wanted to know what part of New York What town or where were you During that time period That last song, Freight Train, came out Valley Stream, that's where I live I was in Valley Stream, Long Island Valley Stream, Long Island, okay, cool Not too far from Kennedy Airport Oh, okay, kind of my hometown I grew up on the other side in New Jersey So not too far I was like 20 miles from Newark Airport I was there Got two sisters out there Deborah and Mindy ones in close west field And then ones close to Marstown Oh yeah, Marstown, right So the other question I have This one comes from me You, when a song comes to you Is it melody first or is it lyrics? I have to say that it happens Like every which way Okay, fair enough Some of them like a melody Or maybe a chorus will pop into my head Then I'll have to etch out The rest of it, you know Verses and sometimes I'll come up with a chord progression You know, work off of that Or sometimes, you know If I'm lucky it all comes together It just pops out That's happened a few times too Right on But I don't like, you know A lot of songwriters say That you're treading on Mysterious waters there You can't really describe it Cool, cool So Dave Willys back with us on the accordion What's the name next to him, Simon Bear? This one's called Oblivion I recently saw a documentary on Kurt Cobain, you know They showed him in that lonely room Another one about Jimi Hendrix And I don't know, did his Kurt's old lady do him in Or Jimi Hendrix, they said They poured CIA and the mob They poured down a lot of red wine And choked him to death, you know I'd like to interject something Good, lean forward toward the mic there, Dave I met Courtney Love when I was five and she was seven Really? Yes Was that just a chance meeting Or parents know each other, what? She was a Unitarian And they came to our Unitarian fellowship On their way up to Seattle Oh Yeah Their last name is Harrison Nice, man, nice Cool, alright So this kind of deals with that What, isolation, you know It could be drug abuse, Alcohol abuse, it could just be Depression, you know You're finding yourself in isolation So those feelings came through In this song Dead and gone In the coca-cress Of cadaver Why do you always need to Oh Why do you always need To hide your Why do you always need Like John Ship without a say Quiet screams And desperation Just the enemy That defends Why do you always need To oh To hide Why do you But you offer Like a need thrown into KGNU, Boulder, Denver And Fort Collins This is the Cabaret program We're live here with Silent Bear And Dave Willey through the Top of the hour We have about 22, 23 minutes left guys And this has been a really great time And getting a couple of emails And stuff from folks out there And say you guys are sounding really good, man So, yeah, right up Thank you, much appreciated Thank you for listening Happy spring to everybody Yes, that's true, yes, equinox Yes, absolutely, beautiful What's next? Well, I spoke about that A record river drum child And spending a lot of time In jazz clubs And a particular club called Smalls That's where I met those two gentlemen And I was talking about Khalil Kwamebel and Larry Willis And this was something I wrote In the back room There was no backstage It was the old kitchen From the restaurant, so I had a lyric pad And this is one that came lyrics first And I wrote the lyrics And I was trying to write something In the classic vernacular Great American songbook So it's called Lady of the Lake Lady of the Lake Shower me in your fun Above the dawn where angels break Into the loveless of a song In the gift that Laverged me into the twilight Of a en-mystic river Into the love nest of a song Where dreams are born And I heart-skinned sing for it Lady of mine Walk with me and show Where distant dreams are packed In I Into the shadow Lady of the Lake CD was called River Drum Child Very cool. Hey, you were talking about You're working on recording A new release, right? Yeah, it's coming little by little We did a single about a year ago And that might be our next tune It's called Viola Liuso We recorded it in a studio In Broom Hill called Rabbit Hole Studios A man named David Hinojosa He engineered it for me Also played cajon and Dave was on it Looking to record some of these More, you know, singer-songwriter Folk-like songs And also have some electric material I like to get on tape If only to, you know John Coltrane is still alive If you put on YouTube and you hear that Something you could commune with him The loneliest monk Pete Seeger What he got through yet So, you know, just to Make sure my music's Documented Right, good call, man And Dave, you mentioned also Feeling forward toward your mic That you have a release coming out The first of April, was it that correct date? Yeah, April 1st I did some free improvisation With my friend Michael O'Neill And, you know, he's been around here For a long, long time He was in a band called Coyote Palace And has collaborated, I believe With George Figgs and other people Sam Fuqua Anyways He came over and, you know I just called him up and I was like Do you want to come over and play? And he's kind of like What do you want to do? And I said I don't know And so, we sat in my studio And we didn't face each other And we didn't talk about Anything that we were going to do We just plugged in and played What we played And it was fantastic And just, I mean Really unimaginably deep So I'm really happy about that That's coming up I'm also working on a new album For the band Three Mice Which may be out At some point Okay, and if you're Folks, if you're looking at Dave Willie, which is W-I-L-L-E-Y W-I-L-L-E-Y If you want to search that out When it comes out here in the first of April And you mentioned George Figgs I want to give a big shout out George is on the other side of the glass here He's our producer and engineer for this program As always, George Making it sound great Thanks, man Thank you, George Absolutely And again, a big Thanks to Longmont Public Media For streaming us here on YouTube So, yeah, right on, man All right What's the next tune? So, yeah, I was talking about it I got a lot of people Especially on KGNU They know me from my long-time support From Leonard Palatier Native American political prisoner And when I was Studying his case I came I wanted to study Coentel Pro in general And I came Called somebody's name A woman named Viola Liuso And she was She got compelled to go down To Selma, Alabama To help out Martin Luther King With the march down there And they had her driving around People and The general If you look at the common Knowledge or, you know, say Oh, she was Surrounded by a car With three clansmen And one of them Was an FBI informant The fourth one And they say, well, the Clan shot her And he was the witness And he testified against them All clean and nice But later came out As I did It was peeling the onion You know, this song I had to do research for And the more I did The more horrified I became You know, because it was The FBI informant himself He was the one that shot Viola Liuso So I wrote this song And then I got Had the honor of speaking To one of her sons And he confirmed that What I wrote in the song Is what happened So And they call this Woman History Month Or Appreciation It should be every day, you know Where we be out Without the women, you know The givers of life, so But she deserves to be honored This is a, it's like a She's a tragic heroic tell So let me just I'll sing the song And the story is in there Part of her story Viola Liuso The KKK Shot you down An FBI man looking on Viola, Viola Liuso They just shot a bullet Through your champion Four simple rides You need a Martin's call And you join the fight To Selma, Alabama On your way, you did ride You put your life on the line For the cause to survive The KKK Shot you down An FBI man shot a bullet The only thing that races Hate more than the blacks Where the whites helping them Her daughter did say They burned a cross on their lawn They hired shots at their house Called them nigger lovers But they're ignorant Sarah Evans was your best friend A black restaurant worker She was true to the end Took care of your kids after They took your life She was loyal and kind And in jail, sick races Try to smear your acts But in the eyes of the truth The law ain't always right What's done in the dark Shot a bullet But he got let off Because he testified against the Klan They brought up charges of murder In the first degree But as Viola lay dead Her murderer So the family sued But a federal judge Throughout the case And he was neutralized So all they got Is a large court fee bill As the government fraud prevailed Injustice was still Her goddess name on a building In the center of town As Viola lay six feet Under the ground KG New Cabaret program live Each and every Tuesday night From 7 to 8 p.m. We bring you live musicians From up and down the front range And next week we'll be Becca Luna will be hosting And Anne Cutler will be the artist And tune in for that next week And let's see Oh yeah, and Doug Gertner At the top of the hour Will be bringing you sound labs So stay tuned for that Doug always does a great job And that will be coming from Our studio down in Denver So you're within inside five minutes You got one more tune for a silent bear? Yeah, let's try to squeeze it out This is called Take a Knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee For Colin Kay and Muhammad Ali Said take a knee Take a knee For those still struggling to be free Take a knee I'm begging please I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee For MLK and Kennedy I said take a knee Take a knee For brothers being shot down By the police Take a knee For decency I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee For the slain and wounded knee I said take a knee Take a knee For the slain and wounded knee It's time to learn our true history I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee Against the KKK and neo-nazis Take a knee Take a knee Against the KKK and neo-nazis Take a knee Against white supremacy I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee Against fascism and tyranny I said take a knee Take a knee Against fascism and tyranny Take a knee In the land of the free I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee Against big pharma Incorporate greed I said take a knee Take a knee Against big pharma Incorporate greed Take a knee On old wall street I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee For women's rights and equality I said take a knee Take a knee For women's rights and equality For Sandra Bland and Lady Liberty I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee Against pipelines And oil companies I said take a knee Take a knee Against pipelines And oil companies Water is live in my knee With Choney I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee Against profiling and brutality I said take a knee Take a knee Against profiling and brutality Take a knee Against Juliani I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee With Seager And Bellafonte I said take a knee Take a knee With Seager And Bellafonte Still waiting for Paltier to be free I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee Against Donald Trump And Francis Scott Key I said take a knee Take a knee Against Donald Trump And Francis Scott Key No more celebrating war and slavery I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee With Colin Kay and Muhammad Ali I said take a knee Take a knee But they're still struggling to be free Take a knee I'm begging please I'm praying on my bended knees Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee Take a knee