The Laptop Sessions: “The Red, White, and Blues” (by Indie Music Songwriter Jim Fusco)

By Jim Fusco:

Welcome to the Laptop Sessions’ Original Wednesday. I’m guessing some people will be new to the Laptop Sessions because of this video, and we welcome you aboard!

This song, a pun on the “Red, White, and Blue”, is my first and only “protest” type of song.

The song was written in early 2002 after 9/11 about the hypocritical actions of Americans automatically becoming “patriotic” as soon as a disaster hit. This song is just me wondering why people weren’t just ALWAYS patriotic!

This song is still as relevant today, six years later, as it was when I wrote it. I even talk about Easter in the song (it was that time of year), and I thought this would be the perfect week to bust it out again.

Basically, I’m giving the point of view of an 18 year old kid (at the time) from Connecticut because all the hardship and fear seemed so distant from my everyday life at the time.

To say this song is still relevant today shows how stagnant the country’s been during this presidency.

Oh, and the verse about California: it’s in reference to when they didn’t have the Red-Carpet festivities for a big award show that year. I didn’t think that was helping anyone. Letting the terrorists know we’re scared? That’ll really help…

I hope you all enjoy this original tune. If you want to hear the original recorded version, you can go to my website: http://fusco-moore.com/music/jim/albums/thats_all.php

You can also get the album on our store at: http://store.moumusic.com/index.php?main_page=product_inf…

In three weeks, I’ll be back for another Original Wednesday when I play “Aware” from Jeff Copperthite’s new album, “Greenlight”. Check out Jeff’s version first here: http://fusco-moore.com/music/jeff/albums/greenlight.php



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This is one in a series of acoustic cover songs, original music, and free mp3 downloads here on the Fusco-Moore Productions Blog.

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