Rory McLeod

Rory McLeod é um misto de música, teatro e outras performances artísticas, e também um bom gaitista!

E nesse vídeo (que não pode ser embutido na página, sorry), ele mostra que ninguém precisa de uma banda ou de muitos instrumentos ou de uma boa produção para passar uma boa mensagem com criatividade, talento e, sobretudo, uma boa letra...

Não há como não notar influências de Sonny Terry ;-)

Um bom blues, e autêntico dentro do contexto e da realidade dele. Nada de mississippi. O blues continua conosco.

Conheça mais do trabalho de Rory McLeod, e sua gaita bastante rítmica e percussiva.

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Como ele mesmo diz, "It takes 10 to 15 years to become an overnight success..." ;-)

update: a letra!

FAREWELL WELFARE (Part One)

Here's a man with his fingers in everybody's pie
I hope he washes some of them sometimes
He talks for money, by talking he eats
He talks to keep himself off of the streets
If there's anything you need, he'll pretend he's got it,
Then he'll pretend that he can't part with it
He's studied hunger, like a lawyer studies law. He can make a rich man rich and a poor man poor.

(Chorus)

He's a shark
A slacker,
A two tongued, double dealing,
Money grabber
He makes two look just like three
With his jiggery pokery
Make a bad thing look good to me
With his jiggery pokery.

He'll make you believe the wrong side is right
He'll make you believe a black horse is white
Whatever he sells you, don’t be surprised
To find yourself cheated half out of your eyes.
When he sells you things he'll hide the price
He wants the whole loaf he ain't content with a slice,
He makes the scales dance, weighs one right down
And swears it's just right if it lacks forty pounds
Between the selling and the buying and the politics
There's the profit and the lying to the money sticks.

(Chorus)

He's a shark
A slacker,
A two tongued, double dealing
Money grabber
He makes two look just like three
With his jiggery pokery
Make a bad thing look good to me
With his jiggery pokery.

When there's a contract to sign
you could be signing your will
They used to rob you with a gun,
Now they use a pencil.
Words lock you up because words don't bend
So all you get when you sign is the fountain pen.

From father to mother, sister to brother
From Cousin to Uncle we got to stick to each other
Since cheating has become so much the fashion,
I believe cheating runs the whole nation.

(Chorus)

He's a shark
A slacker,
A two tongued, double dealing
Money grabber
He makes two look just like three
With his jiggery pokery
Make a bad thing look good to me
With his jiggery pokery.

(thanks Rori!)