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more info on The People Are In Charge!The Band: RAY KORONA lead & harmony vocals, steel & classical acoustic guitars IVICE harmony vocals, dulcimers, lead vocal on No Matter How Hard It Gets BARRY KORNHAUSER bass, cello, mandola, electric & acoustic guitars, harmony vocal on Globalization Blues SHARON ABREU fiddle, harmony vocals, lead vocal on A Book By Its Cover ELLEN DAVIDSON harmony vocals, lead vocal on Globalization Blues Featured Musicians: RANDY CRAFTON drums & percussion JIM GAHN harmony vocal on Big Step To Freedom SARA MARSHALL electric & acoustic slide guitar BARRY MITTERHOFF mandolin AMY PLATT clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor & soprano sax GINA TLAMSA flute JEFF VAN NOSTRAND piano keyboard Produced by RAY KORONA and BARRY KORNHAUSER Arranged by BARRY KORNHAUSER Recorded/Mixed at HOBO STAR MUSIC, Jersey City, NJ Typesetting and Design by RUTH INDECK at QUAD RIGHT, NYC. Cover photography by DAVID BEYDA, NYC, www.davidbeyda.com Globe provided by ELLI BUK, Spring St., NYC notes from the songwriter The Teratorn was the largest bird that ever flew. Even though it was last seen only about 800 years ago, most people don’t know it even existed. If something that big and amazing can vanish from the earth, imagine how much we stand to lose if we fail to consider the impact of our actions on nature and other living beings. This song sends thanks to the new environmentalists like Redwood Mary and Julia Butterfly Hill for their vision, bravery and determination in their work on behalf of our planet and its inhabitants. The People Are In Charge! This isn’t sarcasm; we really can be. If we stand up for what we believe in and work to make things better, we might even see some good changes. Does anyone think there’d be the same sweatshops, hunger, poverty and war in the world if they weren’t all very profitable for the relentlessly greedy few? Don’t the student demonstrators and local cops actually have a lot more in common with each other than with the multinational economic power brokers? This song describes how things have been working on the streets and calls for a new kind of world decision making — one where people’s lives, dignity and needs come first. Because James Dale participated in a gay pride march while in college, he was summarily thrown out of the Boys Scouts of America. Appealing a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court decision against it for doing this, the BSA persuaded the US Supreme Court to rule 5-4 that it could legally exclude gays. The Court noted that the scout code says boy scouts must be “morally straight” and “clean”. Within hours of this ruling, the Gay Free Boy Scouts song was being sung. Big Step To Freedom is a zipper song. Just plug in your own words about a cause or issue for the two lines that change in each section. This song is affectionately dedicated to the Labor Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., which nurtures, preserves and disseminates working people’s culture. Hope you enjoy the music! — Ray |