Audio CDs

Jamie sent us a link to this:

A song about a villain, written in 2000. Part of my Old Songs project. I BELIEVE I originally wrote this song around 2000, but I don’t remember precisely when. I do remember the circumstances that led to me writing the song, though: I was reading about old gangsters and their nicknames, and discovered that quite a few were called “So and So the Jew.” “Lenny the Jew.” “Vinnie the Jew.” So I wrote a song called “Jimmy the Jew” about a menacing underworld figure, and it stayed that was for a while. In fact, I remember performing it at Balls Cabaret in the Twin Cities on one of the very few occasions when I performed my own music in public.
A few years later, in 2004, when I had moved to Omaha and was writing my Tales of Tom Hopper, I got the idea to include a character who basically served […]

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