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Single: The Poets

by Josh Klemons

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This song is from a compilation album Project M.
You can learn more, and listen to the album in its entirety at michaelmood.bandcamp.com/album/project-m-2019.

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When Darrell Scott and Tm O’Brien
Get together they make magic every night
With their Irish reels and their bluegrass feels
Man they know how to do it right

Dolly Parton has a helluva voice,
She can act as well as she can sing
But if you’re not listening to her bluegrass records
Then you ain’t really yet heard a thing

The finest songwriters of every generation are the poets who carry us along
With a haunting melody, a simple harmony, sharing truth in every song

CHORUS:
Life is too short to listen to music that doesn’t move you inside
So brother heed this advice of mine
Listen to John Hartford, Allison Krauss, Todd Snider and John Prine

Hank Williams could break our hearts with songs written beyond their time
While Bob Dylan sang of that Nashville Skyline
They were joined by Willie, Merle and Patsy Cline
And Johnny Cash who could always walk the line

Gillian Welch is a time machine
Transporting us to eras we’ve never known
While Dave Rawlings, her partner-in-crime
Uses every note to bring us right on back home

There are plenty of executives
Coming out of Los Angeles
Who swear that they know it when they see it
But here’s the thing about music worth listening
To is you don’t see it, you hear it and you feel it

CHORUS

BRIDGE
When Woody Guthrie said his guitar killed fascists
He was slaying corporate dragons
He was not being facetious
He was winning hearts
He was changing minds
He was serving as our country’s conscious
During troubles times

Because he knew that… CHORUS

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released October 1, 2019
Acoustic guitar, upright bass, vocals, harmonica - Josh Klemons
Piano, percussion, harmony vocals - Michael Mood

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Josh Klemons Madison, Wisconsin

Southern music with an eclectic, well-traveled flair.

Smart lyrics, ninja-style guitar and finely-crafted songs. What more do you need?

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