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Al Marshall was another of those Bay Area kids that went to Berkeley’s Cazadero Music Camp. He and his talented family came to family camp, kids’ camp, jazz camp.
As he dove into his teen years, he spent a lot of time up in Dave’s room “crankin’ jams.” So I was told.
His musicality was beyond doubt. Thinking about collaborations for this album, he was yet another of Dave’s friends that, early, came to mind. We bounced ideas around online for a while. Highly motivated, I sent Al many, many borderline-absurd Voice Memo’s trying to capture my idea for the piece. (It is only recently that I learned from Al the amount of time he spent cracking-up at these e-sillies, until —he says— he saw how they advanced his understanding of my idea for the enterprise).
Then I spent a couple of long sessions at the big, funky studio in the basement of his Oakland home. I left him with the chicka ding chant, some squawks, burps, shouts, pronouncements and the responsibility of finding a groove that matched my political intentions for the song.
When he successfully put it all together, he handed it off to David for tweaking & mixing. Happily, my daughter Zoe decided she wanted to play and included her daughter, Lily.
If, somehow, one young person is moved to vote in November in the direction this suggests, I will rest in peace.
Chicka Ding.
lyrics
Lyrics
Rich man with your appetites,
Gonna bite you. Gonna bite
Poor man eatin’ race for lunch
You’re starvin’. You’re wasted.
You need to eat some real food.
Listen fool.
Divide and rule.
That’s what they do.
Let’s change that.
credits
from Songs From The Garden,
released November 20, 2021
Russ Ellis: Voice
Al Marshall: Music
Zoe and Lily Ellis: Voice
Mixed by Dave Ellis @ Ellis Island Studio
References
“Eleven/Twenty Twenty” - The presidential election.
“MacVout” - Slim Gaillard
“Rope-a-dope” - Muhammad Ali
“So, How’s This Set Up?” - Robert Reich
“Alreet” - Cab Calloway (via Geordie slang?).
“Oo, She tee-nincie” - Greta Thunberg.
“Bubba Shoop Shoop” - “Get ready.” Neologism created for this tune.
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