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  • Chris Chandler's Muse and Whirled Retort December, 2006

    December 4, 2006 Volume VIII Issue ii
    T.A.B.L.E. .O.F. .C.O.N.T.E.N.T.S.

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    1. Subscription stuff
    2. Brand new stuff for November
    3. How to get stuff
    4. Greetings and quick run down of recent past and the near future
    5. The Muse and Whirled Retort
    6. Announcements
    7. "Thank You!"
    8. Dates

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    BRAND NEW 12/2006:

    FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

    ANNOUNCING THE NEW CD, AMERICAN STORYTELLER VOLS. III & IV!!

    We have been in the studio all month - and this is the best CD to date, another double CD with
    fabulous special guests, bonus features, and of course includes all the new material from the past
    year or so as well as a few unrecorded - most requested favorites!

    We could use your help making this CD.

    Being in the studio is expensive and every hour we are in the studio is one we aren't at your
    favorite neighborhood coffeehouse making a nickel.

    If you would like to order an advance copy it would sure help a lot:
    https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=notes

    If you are feeling good this month and would like to contribute to the recording efforts a
    donation of a hundred dollars will get you in the liner notes.
    https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=notes

    OTHER NEW STUFF:

    1. Check out a new video and includes my first attempt at animation!

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    3. CLICK HERE TO GET THE 2 VOLUME ENHANCED CD SET "American Storyteller
    http://cdbaby.com/cd/cchandler3

    American Storyteller the DVD is NOW at CD Baby

    CD Baby now has copies of three earlier releases:




    Convenience Store Troubadours: Featuring Samantha Parton of the Be Good Tanyas, David Rovics,
    Oliver Steck, Dan Bern, and Hammel on Trial

    Collaborations: Features Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary, Dar Williams, Ellis Paul, Martin
    Sexton, Dan Bern and many many more!

    Hell Toupee: This is THE album featuring the band The Convenience Store Troubadours: Laura
    Freeman, Frankie Hernandez and Chad Austinson - a very cool album.

    What great Christmas Gifts!

    Enough of the crass commercial announcements. Lets get to the news.

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    3. Welcome to the news letter - It's that time of the month again...
    Biggest news this month:

    The good news is - we are taking this time off to make a new record. American Storyteller Vols III
    and IV. If you would like to help us by buying an advance copy of the CD just click here, and make
    sure you put your address and we'll see to it you get a copy as soon as the ink on the cover is
    dry: Get your

    ADVANCE COPY: https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=notes

    Also, If you would like to help us - especially since we are not on the road making money and are
    instead spending money to make this CD

    A contribution of $100 will get you listed in the liner notes! WOO HOO. OH, we accept anonymous
    donations as well in our Tip Jar:

    CLICK HERE: https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=notes

    Second biggest news:

    We are booking a tour across the country and we need you help. Check the dates for details.

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    4. And now...

    T.H.E. .M.U.S.E. .A.N.D. .W.H.I.R.L.E.D. .R.E.T.O.R.T.

    The Muse and Whirled Retort
    December, 2006
    Volume VIII Issue ii
    Washington, DC

    Dec 4, 2006

    New York City

    It seems like the war on Christmas just comes earlier and earlier every year.

    It always amazes me how many liberals take the bait. They respond to the non-controversy in a way
    that further opens rifts that really should not exist.

    My dear friend of 20 years, Blair Walking Hawk Powell passed this month. Blair was Native
    American, and I participated in annual rituals with him at the Kerrville Folk Festival. I felt bigger
    because of it. I had dedicated a poem to him in '01 on the "Flying Poetry Circus" album. There is a
    line in that poem he taught me:

    "Freedom is thanking a God you don't believe in."

    Wal-Mart has an ad slogan this year, "We are not afraid to say Merry Christmas."

    Thanking a God you DO believe in seems easy somehow. Maybe even selfish. That is why I say "Merry
    Christmas" right back. There is a group out there called Jews for Jesus. I like it. But, still,
    Jesus was a Jew. What about Atheists for Jesus? What about Christians for Atheists? What about
    Christians for Muslims? How about Sunnis for Shiites? Shiites for Sunnis? Muslims for Jews? Jews for
    Muslims? Pagans for Wiccans? Baptists for Queers? Or even Queers for Baptists?

    Now, we are getting somewhere.

    There is really no difference in any of our religions — except some meaningless symbology. If
    there is anything that Christ taught, it was the superficiality of symbology. (Luke 21)

    So, here in the midst of what may soon be a very hot civil war between Sunnis and Shiites caused
    by Christians, or even worse - when the Christians pull out — a war between Sunni and Shiite
    nations over the country that was Iraq, - a very real World War III - I find it hard to say Merry
    Christmas.

    But, I do. Merry Christmas.

    Translated "Happy Rising of our Savior." But is not for the birth of a single child born some 2000
    years ago in a country that is now torn apart by religious apartheid that I say, "Merry
    Christmas." I say it to celebrate the Christ child, the savior, and the forgiver of our sins that is born,
    or could be born, within each one of us, each moment, of each hour of each and every day.

    It is a child not created through sexual intercourse but through faith. He is born in the feeding
    trough of a jackass — the lowest place within our own soul

    May we learn from the lowest of the low, as he taught, to forgive each other for their sins so
    that we may not die because of our own. Merry Christmas.

    I bring to you a gift to celebrate the birth of our savior. Our savior is you.

    It is a humble gift. One you have, I am sure, heard before

    Please re re-read, these surprising profound lyrics from the late fifties.

    Don't gloss over them as you would if you heard some classic rock ditty for your youth echo in
    your cranium at a grocery store one thousand times. Sometimes a song lasts because it is well good.

    Let the melody linger in your head as you read the interwoven segments.

    Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum

    A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum

    Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum

    To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum,

    rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

    As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a
    poor widow put in two very small copper coins.

    "I tell you the truth," he said, "this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these
    people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live
    on."

    So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum,

    When we come.

    It is difficult to conjure that Christ intended every widow to give all she had to live on.
    Especially when you consider that widows in the antiquated world in which these words were written, a
    widow was the poorest of the poor. A temple was skyscraper. Asking a widow to give what little she
    had to the church treasury is like asking a disabled woman on the corner of the expressway and
    downtown to give away her social security check to the church for its television broadcast. Like, say
    the Jimmy Swaggarts of the world.

    Notice Christ did not say, "Go forth and do likewise".

    Why then did he mention it? Think about that this Christmas season.

    Little Baby, pa rum pum pum pum

    I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum

    I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum

    That's fit to give the King, pa rum pum pum pum,

    rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

    They came to him and said, "Teacher, we know you are a man of integrity. You aren't swayed by men,
    because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the
    truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?"

    But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. "Why are you trying to trap me?" he asked. "Bring me a Denarius
    and let me look at it."

    They brought the coin, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"

    "Caesar's," they replied.

    Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum,

    On my drum?

    "Render unto Caesar, that which is Caesar's and Render unto God that which is God's."

    His Mother nodded, pa rum pum pum pum

    The ox and lamb kept time, pa rum pum pum pum

    I played my drum for Him, pa rum pum pum pum

    I played my best for Him, pa rum pum pum pum,

    rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,



    I always envisioned Christ reaching down and holding a clod of dirt, like Katy Scarlet O'Hara as
    he delivers that line, he holds the clod of dirt for others to inspect, "Whose face do you see
    here?"

    They look at each other puzzled. "That is the face of God."

    Then He smiled at me, pa rum pum pum pum

    Me and my drum.

    Merry Christmas

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    The Announcements

    We are looking for dates in Northern, CA, Southern, CA

    Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana

    See below for details

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    Blair Powell died this month. His memorial service was yesterday.

    In lieu of flowers contributions can be made to: Montgomery County Humane Society at 1016 E.
    Dallas Street, Conroe, Texas 77301 or Good Shepherd Residential Treatment Facility at 23538 Coons Road,
    Tomball, Texas 77377.


    My friend Tim Mason has written a poem for him. I posted it here.
    https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=notes&display=327

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    The Folk music world lost DC Fitzgerald this month. I am proud to have known him and called him
    friend.

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    My Car died this month. She was a good car. I am with out wheels. Anybody got a line on a good
    car?

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    We had hoped to have American Storyteller out by Christmas, but we do hope to have it out by the
    start of the next tour.



    T.H.A.N.K. .Y.O.U.

    ~Henry Cross ~Nick Newlin ~Kevin Jefferson ~Russel Carter~Devon Nicholl ~Elizabeth Crisfield ~Pat
    Wictor ~Kathryn Falcone ~Nick Annis ~Joe Jencks ~Kodac Harrison ~Fishman ~Anne Feeney ~Shirley
    ~Mom~

    The Front Porch Turkey Jam Gang

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    HERES DA DATES


    We need Louisville or St Louis here.

    On January 5 — anyone help out?

    Saturday, January 6th, 2007, 8 pm
    St Louis, MO
    The Schlafly Tap Room
    2100 Locust

    Sunday, January 5th

    Kansas City?


    Tuesday, January 9th, 2007, 7:30
    Los Altos, CA
    Home of Chuck and Joanne Narad
    5872 Arboretum Dr
    650 208-7788 (Joanne's cell)



    Wed, January 10

    Outside of Ashland, OR
    House Concert

    Keep your eyes peeled


    Thursday, January 11th, 2007, 7:00 PM
    Salem, OR
    Salem House Concerts
    Old Central Salem
    503 378 7704
    http://www.home.teleport.com/~blueman


    Friday, January 12th, 2007, 8pm
    Tacoma
    Northern Pacific Coffee Company
    401 Garfield Street South
    253-537-8338


    Saturday, January 13th, 2007, 9:00 PM
    Port Townsend
    Sirens
    823 Water
    360.379.1100


    Monday, January 15th, 2007, 9 PM
    Bellingham, WA
    Acoustic Green Frog Tavern
    900 N. State St.
    360.756.1213


    Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
    Victoria, BC
    Solstice Cafe


    Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
    Vancouver, BC
    The Railway Club
    info@joeyonly.com for more info


    Thursday, January 18th, 2007
    Olympia, WA
    Pugent Sound Community College 12:00 noon


    Thursday, January 18th, 2007
    Olympia, WA
    TBA baldharry@yahoo.com for info

    Friday, January 19th, 2007
    Portland, OR
    The Lighthouse Intentional Community
    211 SE Madison
    503 234 6115
    http://www.lighthousepdx.org/lighthousepdx.html


    Saturday, January 20th, 2007
    Eugene, Or
    Sam Bond's Garage
    407 Blair
    541-431-6603
    http://www.sambonds.com


    Sunday, January 21st, 2007, 6:30
    Bandon, OR
    Bates House
    89569 Sunny Loop Lane
    5413476155
    http://janetBates.com



    Anyone in Northern California help here?

    January 22, 23, 24

    Thursday, January 25th, 2007, tba
    Nevada City
    Cooper's Saloon
    235 Commercial St.
    (530) 265-011
    http://coopersnevadacity.com/


    Friday, January 26th, 2007
    Redwood, CA
    TBA


    Saturday, January 27th, 2007, 7:00PM
    San Francisco, CA
    The Beat Museum
    With Timothy Mason

    540 Broadway (at Columbus)
    415 399 9626
    http://www.thebeatmuseum.org/


    Sunday, January 28th, 2007, 11:00 AM
    Watsonville
    Radio interview at KPIG!
    1851 BRANCIFORTE DR
    http://www.kpig.com

    Sunday, January 28th, 2007, 11:00 AM
    Berkeley, CA

    La Pena Cultural Center

    www.lapena.org
    3105 Shattuck Ave
    Berkeley, CA 94705
    (510) 849-2568

    With Dave Lippman

    Monday, January 29th, 2007, 8pm
    Downtown Felton, CA
    Don Quixote's International Music Hall
    6275 Highway 9
    831-603-2294
    http://www.donquixotesmusic.com


    Anyone from the bay to Southern California help out here?


    Saturday February 4
    Phoenix, AZ
    House Concert TBA


    Sunday, February 5, 6, 7
    Any one in Tucson, Prescott, Flagstaff, El Paso?


    Thursday, February 8th, 2007, 8:30pm
    Ft. Worth, TX
    Black Dog Tavern
    2933 Crockett
    817-332-8190



    Sunday February 10
    Houston TX
    Dan Electros



    We need to play Austin, Dallas, Denton Baton Rouge!


    Friday, February 16th, 2007
    Deadwood
    Deadwood Mardi Gras
    Main
    http://deadwood.org


    Saturday, February 17th, 2007
    Deadwood
    Deadwood Mardi Gras
    Main
    http://deadwood.org


    Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
    New Orleans, LA
    Mardi Gras
    From the Bywater to the Quarters


    Wednesday, February 21st, 2007, Feb 21-25
    Memphis , TN
    Folk Alliance


    March 1
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