Blog: Our Kitchen Sink

Song O' The Day: Black Joe Lewis "I'm Broke"

Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears "I'm Broke" live at Waterloo Records SXSW 2009
This one goes out to the 20,000 General Motors autoworkers who are going to be laid off as part of the company's bankruptcy restructuring . I interviewed Joe recently (video coming soon) and we talked about how we can lobby to make this track the new US National Anthem. Wouldn't that be great?! At baseball games during the 7th Inning Stretch: "Please rise for the traditional 7th Inning Stretch and a rendition of Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears' 'I'm Broke'". 45,000 ticketholders- all of whom have experienced some combination of job loss, savings decrease, [...]