Songwriter's Choice

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#		Title	Length
1		Ace of Harps	4:19	Play
2		New Orleans Callin'	3:46	Play
3		Road Rage Anthem	2:24	Play
4		It Ain't About Losin'	3:12	Play
5		If You Cook the Way You Walk	4:17	Play
6		Only Dead Presidents Vote	2:48	Play
7		Blues Mamas	3:22	Play
8		Blues Refugee	3:02	Play
9		Hostage America	2:35	Play
10		Nobody Loves Me But MP3.com	2:41	Play
11		Rounders and Hustlers	3:06	Play
12		Source Of Light	3:14	Play
13		The Stalker	4:13	Play
14		Come Back Casey Jones	2:28	Play
15		Dock Your Dinghy	3:44	Play
16		Hillbilly Music	2:32	Play
17		Big and Black and Blue	2:55	Play

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Description

SONGWRITER'S CHOICE
Songs by ELLEN GRIFFITH
Band: The DEMONSTRATORS

This album is a rootsy slice of Americana from a maverick songwriter with an attitude. The result is: Close-to-the-roots sounds, but up-to-the-minute topics. Like Road Rage Anthem. Or Only Dead Presidents Vote which starts out, Have you tried to buy a congressman lately? and sums up: Welcome to the teeming ranks of voter second class/Unless you feed the greed machine, it kicks your sorry ass. One song goes to the mat with the corporate music establishment, and another hits Nashville upside the head. Yes, there are love songs. A love song to the city of New Orleans set to a strutting second-line beat, and a love song to the old steam locomotives called Come Back Casey Jones in a careening bluegrass groove. Theres even a tribute to the hokum blues of the 1930s that makes an Olympic event out of innuendo: You can dock your dinghy in my harbor any old day. Its historical and hysterical.


A NOTE TO THE LISTENER: These songs are guaranteed not to fit any homogenized, top-forty radio format. No lame lyrics, no wimpy love songs, just fun blues 'n' boogie, and some songs that actually say something.



THE DEMONSTRATORS are a songwriters-choice studio band featuring internationally-known roots music artists Teresa James, Bob Malone, Roy Zimmerman, James Intveld, John Juke Logan and Marty Rifkin. This gang was hand-picked to kick rambunctious, rootsy grooves into these contemporary original songs.


THE SONGWRITER

I grew up in a conservative neighborhood in West Los Angeles. I thought of it as a Maximum conformity suburb, and I was serving 16 to life. A guitar was my weapon to break out of there, and I made my getaway by joining a raggedy, down-at-the-heels, all-girl bar band playing Hank Williams tunes. Sometimes we didnt get paid. Sometimes we got stranded. That came with the territory. But I had a wandering ear for all forms of roots music, and I subsequently strayed into blues, folk music, and bluegrass to me it was all related. Then when I heard a bunch of guys noodling around with a Dixieland sound, I took a crash course in piano and joined the Costa del Oro Jazz Band which made some music history along with the rest of the 50s West Coast traditional jazz revival. But I kept wandering back to the blues. And to roots rock, and honky tonk country music, where there's a heart-beat rhythm that feels like it came from the lives of real folks. I guess it's organic.

I started at the bottom as an itinerant musician, and ended up . . . at the bottom as a starving songwriter. So Ive earned my underdog status the hard way, and I really think the world needs to know what it looks like to me.

Ellen Griffith