Long Live The People's Revolution

On this day, forty years ago, 11 September 1973, the democratically elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by a military coup led by General Pinochet.

According to Wikipedia:

'After General Pinochet assumed power, United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told President Richard Nixon that the U.S. "didn't do it," but "we helped them...created the conditions as great as possible." (referring to the coup itself).'

According to another Wikipedia article "Pinochet's government killed at least 3,197 people and tortured about 29,000." One of the many killed was singer/songwriter and theatre producer Victor Jara along with many other artists and musicians.

No matter what the opinion of the Allende government might be it's noteworthy that the "people's revolution" in Chile that brought him to power was a democratic election.

Whose Turn Is It Now? on iTunes

Listen to me on RouteNote!

I've joined RouteNote which is a digital distributor that places tracks on popular download sites including iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.

My first "single" on the site is Whose Turn Is It Now? which has previously been available on the SCALA Higher Ground album. 

I hope to add more songs soon.

Check out my RouteNote page.

Now on ... TwitMusic!

It might not sound inspiring!  TwitMusic - music for twits?

Nope it's Twitter's solution for musicians who tweet a lot.

You can hear me twittering on my very own TwitMusic Page!

Ornithologists and other twitchers beware!

(tweet, tweet, tweetly-tweet!)

My live tracks on Soundcloud #2

You can listen to this live track in high quality wav format, originally from the SCALA Higher Ground album, on my Soundcloud site.

My live tracks on Soundcloud #1

You can listen to this live track in high quality wav format, originally from the SCALA Steps album, on my Soundcloud site.

Arigato, xi xi, merci beaucoup, thanks!

Thanks so much to everyone who came along to the "Robert and Jane Childs Appreciation Night" last night at SCALA's new venue, The Colonel Light Hotel.  I was very appreciative of the numbers of people there.  It was fantastic to again hear Catherine Blanch and Vicki Bennett, as both have had quite a long break from performing, as well as The Miller Trio, Corey Stewart and Andy & Marta.

And thanks for all the song requests that I couldn't fulfil last night.  Here's the recorded version of Sugar Addict featuring the late Ren Forsaith doing fine work on drums.  Adrian Miller (keyboard) and George Will (bass) are also playing on this track.

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