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Hamell On Trial!

I saw this guy last night for the second time, and once again he absolutely blew me away. There's no one quite like this guy, whose music is summed up with the following lines from his song The Meeting

It's one guy
And one guitar
So it's gotta be folk
OH MAN HOW WRONG THEY ARE!

Anyhow, amongst his sordid stories and songs about snorting the dead, meeting John Lennon, being hired by a club owner in a conservative town solely to piss off the clientele, and declaring Crime and Punishment a love story, he sang a song about Pat Robertson. More specifically, he said that someone should assasinate Pat Robertson. As he led the crowd in chanting "His brains on the cross behind him" he sang the line that is the subject line of this post. Brilliant!

Another personal favorite lyric of his:

Need a partner
To start here
Like the James Boys, Frank and Jesse
Like the Untouchables with Elliot Nessie
Like Bonnie and Clyde when they get aggressie
Like Romeo and Juliet, they start the carressie
Like Bartles and James, a pause to refreshie
Like Salt N Pepa, like to see them undressie
Like Sid and Nancy, dead and gone God blessie
Like the Everly Brothers how their voices they meshie
Like Jake LaMotta and his brother Joe Pesci!

So if you get a chance, check out Hamell on Trial when he comes to your town. He really isn't captured very well on his CDs, although his live CD is excellent (his newest was produced by Ani DiFranco, whom he frequently opens for).

Like Carl from Aqua Teen, he don't need no instructions to know how to rock!