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This unforgiving music video delves into subjects such as the prison industrial complex, corporate bankers, greed, slave labor, America’s drug war, materialism, the drab day-to-day life spent at work and hope for the future. Coming soon: A full feature length version available for purchase. WORK FREE Artists: Jane & Eden Music by Jane Jensen Written by Eden Roemer Video Editor: Billy Vegas ESW Live band members Matthew Wilson-bass Josh Silbert-keys Adam White-drums Brian Fields-vocals/percussion Brian Deer-Guitar Music recorded at: The Pop Machine Feel Free To Copy and Re-post This And Any Of The Puppetgov Videos!

FRED McDOWELL – Shake ’em On Down. Fred McDowell, (January 12th 1904 – July 3, 1972,) often known as Mississippi Fred McDowell, was a blues singer and guitar player in the North Mississippi style. McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee, near Memphis. His parents, who were farmers, died when McDowell was a youth. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville. Wanting a change from ploughing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926 where he worked in a number of jobs and played music for tips. He settled in Como, Mississippi, about 40 miles south of Memphis, in 1940 or 1941, and worked steadily as a farmer, continuing to perform music at dances, and picnics. Initially he played slide guitar using a pocket knife and then a slide made from a beef rib bone, later switching to a glass slide for its clearer sound. He played with the slide on his ring finger. While commonly lumped together with ‘Delta Blues singers,’ McDowell actually may be considered the first of the bluesmen from the ‘North Mississippi’ region – parallel to, but somewhat east of the Delta region – to achieve widespread recognition for his work. A version of the state’s signature musical form somewhat closer in structure to its African roots (often eschewing the chord change for the hypnotic effect of the droning, single chord vamp), the North Mississippi style (or at least its aesthetic) may be heard to have been carried on in the music of such figures as Junior Kimbrough and …
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