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Food for the Long Haul
ACCD 0402
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Jesse
Palidofsky
Healing humor and sharp social commentary with a big slice of the blues
Over the years Azalea City Recordings artist Jesse Palidofsky has shared
his music at the National Theatre, on the Hudson River sloop Clearwater with
Pete Seeger, at festivals like Common Ground on the Hill and the Washington
Folk Festival, and at the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian National Folklife
Festival with the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation. He is instructor
for Blues Piano at Common Ground on the Hill. Jesse has sung one-on-one
with hundreds of terminally ill patients in hospices and hospitals; has led
singing for groups of a thousand people or more; and also performed for conferences
of clinical psychologists and chaplains; as well as for inmates at the Detroit
House of Correction and at the maximum security prison in Salem, Oregon.
"...Jesse played his song, 'I've Got the Swannanoa Sleep Deprivation Blues',
which brought the house (at Asheville, NC's Be Here Now) to its feet with
cheers and applause."
Robert Caldwell Performing Songwriter Magazine
"Thanks for putting out such a good CD!"
Sonny Ochs WRPI-FM, Troy, NY
"I expected them (JP Group) to be GOOD–but I didn’t expect them to be THAT
GREAT!"
Lisa Null Washington Folk Festival
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Track 10 3:43
Crossing the Poison River
© 2004 Jesse Palidofsky, ASCAP
Track 21 3:21
Azalea Waltz
Lyrics © 2006 Jesse Palidofsky, ASCAP
Music: "Blues in Three" from Improvising Blues Piano
© 1997 Tim Richards, Used by permission of Schott & Co. Ltd., London
Crossing the Poison water
Will I wallow on the bank
Sink deeper in the mud
Have my eyes plucked out
Be washed away in the flood
Will I sail 'cross oceans
Disappear without a trace
Or finally reach the other shore
And find it's all been one big waste
Whoooaaahh, crossing the Poison River
Will I ever be the same?
I could make my killing
Build a mansion for my home
Shut out the world's pain
Buy an island of my own
The demons from without
Claw beneath your skin
But the damnedest of them all
Are those demons from within
Papa grieves for me
Old friends call me a fool
A naive dweeb trying to save the world
Each day I lurch
Into another pothole
But to turn back now
Would do murder to my soul
(Recorded especially for Azalea Sampler 2)
Azalea Waltz
Charlie’s dreaming something new
Karen’s wailing a Cajun tune
Ruthie’s wrangling on a country blues
Ain’t you heard the news ‘bout Azalea!
Mary Sue’s on satellite
Loretta’s hambo’s are outtasight
Zoe’s revving up and taking flight
Ain’t you heard the news ‘bout Azalea!
Rachel’s rhythms bring healing vibe
Carey’s singing the dead alive
Seth and Laura build up the tribe
Ain’t you heard the news ‘bout Azalea!
Charlie’s dreaming something new
WAMMIE winners–we got a few
Now Jon Carroll’s joined the crew
Ain’t you heard the news ‘bout Azalea!
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