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Son House "Preachin' Blues"
Son House was a preacher before becoming a seminal figure in the development of blues. Here he creates short, vivid portraits of church-goers. Find more Alt-Xmas music here.
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Stand Up, Stand Up for Judas
Leon Rosselson retells the Jesus-Judas story. What if Judas is scorned because he taught "shaking off the chains," rather than preaching submission? Find more Alt-Xmas music here.
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Atheists Don't Have No Songs (Steve Martin)
Steve Martin fills a gap in the seasonal hymnal by creating a song for atheists. Musically appropriate, if irreverent. Find more Alt-Xmas music here.
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'I'm on my way to Canaan land'
Burt Lancaster stars as the religious huckster Elmer Gantry in the 1960 movie version of Sinclair Lewis' novel. Find more Alt-Xmas music here.
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Nina Simone -- 'Strange Fruit'
Nina Simone's album Pastel Blues, released in 1965, included her version of Strange Fruit.
Billie Holiday Sings 'Strange Fruit'
Billie Holiday created the powerful classic rendition of the anti-lynching song by Abe Meeropol.
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Nuclear Option in the Senate
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Senate Democrats employ the so-called "nuclear option" in response to an unprecedented series of Republican filibusters.
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All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose
Woody Guthrie's guitar famously bore the legend, This Machine Kills Fascists. Here are the Woody lyrics (probably dating to the 1940s) that most directly spell out this message, with appropriate pictures of contemporary bad guys. Woody's confidence in the victory over fascism was the flip side of his confidence in the victory of the common people who, he sang, were Bound for Glory.
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Siats - A New Mega Dinosaur
Move over, T. rex. Sian meekorum is a new, 100 million year old carnivorous dinosaur, rivaling T. rex is size and predating it by some 40 million years. Sian, whose fossils were discovered in Utah, is one of the two or three largest North American dinosaurs.
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