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David Olney - "Jerusalem Tomorrow" from "THE STONE" (Deadbeet Records, 2012)

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•• Hear more about it here: https://davidolney.bandcamp.com/album... Enjoy "Jerusalem Tomorrow" as heard on David Olney's "THE STONE" thematic mini-album (Deadbeet Records, 2012). David is delighted to share this second installment of his new thematic series, which launched in 2011 with the David Olney "Presents FILM NOIR" mini-album. • Please SHARE this video and let me know what you think in the comments below.

This video was shot by Jack Irwin for Silvertone Recording in Nashville, TN. The song speaks for itself but the ending always surprises, despite knowing the outcome. It has been recorded by Emmylou Harris, Paul K and The Weathermen and others.

Driving on Friday I heard this song on the radio and knew it was Good Friday.

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Musical Birthday Notes - March 23rd

Musical Birthday Notes – March 23rd

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Millionaire by David Olney for Apartment Sessions

This video was recorded in October 2019 in front of the Atlanta Penitentiary, a notoriously corrupt federal prison which houses almost 2,000 inmates and detainees.

“Millionaire” speaks hauntingly to the state of rampant inequity that has been endemic to our modern world and our country since their inceptions.

The glorification and celebrity of the ultra-wealthy (see: number-based epithets like “millionaire” and “billionaire” that inherently deify) leads many to simultaneously revile and chase this kind of inflated influence.

This interwoven web of big (often inherited) money, a profit-over-people mindset, and the criminalization of poverty has led to a for-profit carceral system that is extractive, punitive, and particularly harmful to black and brown lives.

An insidious cash bail system further centralizes the issue of wealth, allowing white collar criminals to pay their way out of jail and leaves those who have committed nonviolent survivalist offenses to sit in jail for exorbitant amounts of time awaiting trial.

Prisons as they exist in the U.S. today (and perhaps in all forms) are actively harmful facilitators of recidivism, racism, corruption, and the legacy of slave labor. A massive overhaul of the rehabilitative paradigm is the only way forward.