This Fire: Politics, Love And Other Small Miracles
Reviews
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2008-03-17
Reviewed 2008-03-17
Singer songwriter folkie, great string picking/plucking Great commentary.
*1: 4:39 male vocal, title from a Studs Terkel book, written after Huricane Katrina
a knotch up from mellow with guitar.
***2: 3:23 "the buck stops far from me" simple melody, powerful words anti war, .. social corporate values
* 3: 4:24 mellow guitar & vocal " I am a simple man"
4: 4: 09 vocal, guitar & fiddle about a fatted love , a waltz
***5: 2:02 about Dick Cheney
***6: 4:20 nice uplifting lyrics, rock folk e guitar mid to faster tempo.
***7: 4:10 song "Forgive us "with parts of the prayer " Our Father" intermixed about the Pennsylvania Amish school shootings
8: 3:49 about female Native American athelete SuAnne Big Crow, beautiful song about her. She was killed in an automobile accident.
****9: 3:12 classic Pete Seeger Vietnam era song sung again for the mess we are in .. . today in the 21st century.
****10: 4:06 great song about Oprah and daytime TV
11: 3:32 song/poem 20 years after his mom's death
12: 4:36 a love song
***13: 2:26 BOOB ON OUR TV a football game wardrobe malfunction
14: 4:00 a wedding song
**15: 3:39 vocal, strings & clarinet?? "we stand on sacred ground"
D Farrell 03/2008
*1: 4:39 male vocal, title from a Studs Terkel book, written after Huricane Katrina
a knotch up from mellow with guitar.
***2: 3:23 "the buck stops far from me" simple melody, powerful words anti war, .. social corporate values
* 3: 4:24 mellow guitar & vocal " I am a simple man"
4: 4: 09 vocal, guitar & fiddle about a fatted love , a waltz
***5: 2:02 about Dick Cheney
***6: 4:20 nice uplifting lyrics, rock folk e guitar mid to faster tempo.
***7: 4:10 song "Forgive us "with parts of the prayer " Our Father" intermixed about the Pennsylvania Amish school shootings
8: 3:49 about female Native American athelete SuAnne Big Crow, beautiful song about her. She was killed in an automobile accident.
****9: 3:12 classic Pete Seeger Vietnam era song sung again for the mess we are in .. . today in the 21st century.
****10: 4:06 great song about Oprah and daytime TV
11: 3:32 song/poem 20 years after his mom's death
12: 4:36 a love song
***13: 2:26 BOOB ON OUR TV a football game wardrobe malfunction
14: 4:00 a wedding song
**15: 3:39 vocal, strings & clarinet?? "we stand on sacred ground"
D Farrell 03/2008
Recent airplay
Dick Cheney
Traditions — Nov 11, 2025
Waiting For A Miracle
Melange — Oct 29, 2015
Oprah Seat
clean copper radio — Jun 08, 2015
Simple Man
Sunny Side Up — May 04, 2008
Simple Man
Time Traveler (Earth Day) — Apr 22, 2008
Suanne Big Crow
Sunny Side Up — Apr 13, 2008
Charting
2008-03-16 — 2008-05-18
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| May 11 | 1 |
| Apr 27 | 1 |
| Apr 20 | 1 |
| Apr 13 | 1 |
| Mar 23 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | Hope Dies Last | ||
| 2. | Not Me | ||
| 3. | Simple Man | ||
| 4. | Fiddler's Last Dance | ||
| 5. | Dick Cheney | ||
| 6. | Waiting For A Miracle | ||
| 7. | Forgive Us | ||
| 8. | Suanne Big Crow | ||
| 9. | Waist Deep In The Big Muddy | ||
| 10. | Oprah Seat | ||
| 11. | Twenty Todays Ago | ||
| 12. | Drive All Night | ||
| 13. | Boob On Our Tv | ||
| 14. | The Other Side | ||
| 15. | This Fire |