This 40-page booklet-and-CD is Grant’s “new idea” about how to distribute his work. Inside the booklet is a CD. You’ll also find a QR code for downloading or listening to the songs online, and a special internet link if you prefer to do it that way. Then there are pages of “liner notes,” where you find lyrics to all the songs, detailed stories behind the songs, and how and where they got recorded and who played on them. Additionally, there is a short story Grant wrote about a certain baldheaded Florida folk singer driving home from Texas, and a half dozen poems and an essay about Lincoln.
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I started on this song shortly after the failed attempt on January 6,
2021, to overturn the election, bring down the government, and
hang the country’s vice president. I was having trouble moving
down the page with it all, so I called on my nephew Cody Williford
to help me finish the song.
lyrics
Insurrection Song by Grant Peeples and Cody Williford
Let us all remember the day in ‘21
The 6th of January when the deadly deed was done
Oh, they charged right up the hallowed steps
And busted down the doors
They were shoving past and breaking glass and spittin’ on the floors
It was an insurrection, so patriots must stand.
And heed the call for justice and let leniency be damned
Cause freedom’s just another word for all we have to lose
Let the sonsabitches rot in jail for what they tried to do
A violent mob of QAnon, ProudBoys and Boogaloos
Just fascists, thugs and racists, a band of angry fools
They were chanting words of treason,
Waving flags that bore the name
Of the lyin’ lame-duck loser, the one who stoked the flame
It was an insurrection, so patriots must stand
And heed the call for justice and let leniency be damned
Cause freedom’s just another word for all we have to lose
Let the sonsabitches rot in jail for what they tried to do
So, when you hear their cry for unity while questioning the facts
Remember its bad faith and lies that led them to attack
On that darkened day in history let it not be forgot
That a coup’s a coup no matter who has planned the evil plot
It was an insurrection, so patriots must stand
And heed the call for justice and let leniency be damned
Cause freedom’s just another word for all we have to lose
Let the sonsabitches rot in jail for what they tried to do
Let the sonsabitches rot in jail what they tried...
credits
from A Murder of Songs,
released February 21, 2023
The session was built at Gatorbone Studio, with Lon Williamson on bass, and Lis Williamson and Mike Lagasse on guitars. Mike, Lon and Emmet Carlisle added background vocals. Cody, too, sang on the chorus, but we tracked him at Winterstone Studio in Tallahassee. Tim Lorsch recorded the
fiddle track at his studio in Nashville, and Will Barrow recorded
the accordion in Nashville at Bobby’s Place. At Log Cabin Studio in
Tallahassee, Danny Goddard laid down snare and washboard, and
Kris Kolp blew harmonica. The version of the song is essentially a
Log Cabin remix (with some added stuff, too,) of the version heard
in the video of the song which was released in 2021.
A self-described “tree-hugger that watches NASCAR, and Buddhist with a gun below the seat,” Grant Peeples is known for his
axe-sharp socio-political tunes, raucous humor and heart-gigging ballads.
He is the recipient of the Focus Foundation Award for Creative Excellence, which cited the “humor, compassion and wisdom of his songs,” and their "unflinching social insight and cultural acuity."...more
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