Black 47 - Iraq
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Artist: Black 47Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Music Label: UFO
Soundtracks:
- Stars and Stripes
- Downtown Baghdad Blues
- Sadr City
- Sunrise on Brooklyn
- No Better Friend...
- Ballad of Cindy Sheehan
- The Last One To Die
- The Fighting 69th (On The Road To The Airport)
- Battle of Fallujah
- Ramadi
- Southside Chicago Waltz
- Whatever...
Free Music Notes for Iraq
Free Music Review: It doesn't get better than this.
Hit: 5 Stars
I have had several conversations with people who like Black47 but believe this album has too much of a political bent.
It's my thinking that those opinions are more based on the title and the cover than the actual album itself.
I love the fact that it's a concept album,
that all of the songs tie into one theme but, I am also very glad that the band does not press upon the listener to subscribe to any particular political agenda.
The songs, like all of Black47's songs through the years, are songs about people in a certain place at a certain time.
No matter what your personal thoughts are on the situation 'over there',these songs will connect and resonate.
Iraq is the masterpiece that this band has been building up to for years, not classically "Irish" per se, but classically "human" and highly reccomended.
Iraq Poster
Steadfast in its opposition to the war since before the invasion, Black 47 presents a dry-eyed view of life in combat on IRAQ its debut for new model indie, United For Opportunity. The band hits the campaign trail in February performing across the U.S. and culminating with a St. Patrick s Day release party on their home turf, New York City, at BB Kings.Recorded at Coney Island s Cyclone Sound in July 2007, IRAQ includes a batch of new songs along with several composed by Larry Kirwan over the course of the war. Inspiration for the characters and stories are very personal, many coming from the point-of-view of fans that served in Iraq and shared their experiences with the band.
Black 47 rarely plays to the converted and their shows have often seethed over the last five years. Because of our background, we ve always had as strong a fan base of right wing cops, firemen and conservatives, as of left wing students, radicals, and the working disaffected; neither side has been afraid to vent its views, Kirwan dryly notes. We also take pride in keeping in touch with our fans, many of whom traditionally join the Service as a way to fund their college education or mortgage. Add to that the many who enlisted in response to 9/11, and it s easy to see why we have had no shortage of information from those actually doing the fighting in Iraq.
Stars and Stripes tells the story of two young men waiting for a chopper to rescue them from an ambush in Anbar Province, while Downtown Baghdad Blues has another serviceman wondering, what the hell am I doing here in the first place? Sadr City, is black-humored blues with the hero fearful that Moqtada Al Sadr s Mahdi Army has his number; and on Ramadi, a young man, despite his desperate situation, can t rid his mind that his girlfriend may be cruisin down Main Street hangin with your old squeeze.
The band employs an ever-broadening m?lange of New York styles: rock, reggae, hip-hop, folk, Irish traditional, downtown noise and Jazz and have adopted a somewhat harder sound to reflect the nature of the war.
With a pedigree for controversy, Black 47 first raised its voice in protest to the political and economic systems in the North of Ireland in 1989. Led by Larry Kirwan (guitar/vocals), Black 47 is recognized as the premier Irish-American rock group who paved the way for the current Irish punk/roots explosion led by such bands as Flogging Molly and The Dropkick Murphys.
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