John Browns Body Dec 16, 1861 - Performed by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2020-07-23 | The spiritual "Say Brother, Will You Meet Us" became the hit Union Army marching song "John Brown's Body" which Julia Ward Howe rewrote as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." It would later become "Solidarity Forever" with lyrics by Ralph Chaplin, written for the Industrial Workers of the World. This version of "John Brown's Body" is the most lyrically dense.
Five Years from Now by Jim Knable live in front of Madison Square Garden Jim Knable 2025-10-10 | Big City Folk hosts this event and Apollo Flowerchild took this video of one of my newer songs. Enjoy responsibly!
Jim Knable at the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan with Claire Wellin Jim Knable 2025-09-23 | Claire was kind enough to join me on stage with no notice to play through my new album’s lead single. She was the featured act that night for Big City Folk’s Song Club.
Blame the Train by Jim Knable live at 11th St. Community Gardens, NYC Jim Knable 2024-10-29 | Copyright 2024 by Jim KnableJim Knable on guitar and vocalSeth Goldart on mandolin
Jim Knables American Antihero Music Video Jim Knable 2024-10-04 | The first single from Jim Knable & The Randy Bandits' new album, PALE FIRE!Music video directed by Christopher Alvord; cinematography by Alex Pither.Copyright 2024 by Jim Knable & The Randy BanditsThe Randy Bandits on the audio recording are:Jim Knable - Vocal and acoustic guitarJay Buchanan - BassBert Jantsch - PianoChris Q. Murphy - Electric guitarSpiff Wiegand - Drums,Jessie Bittner - fiddleThe Stunt Bandits featured in this video are: Will Brass - Electric Guitar Mike Deering- DrumsBert Jantsch - Bass and pianoRuby Jantsch - PianoMichael Bakkensen, Bert Jantsch, and Ruby Jantsch lend their lip syncing talents to the chorus.Special thanks to everyone at The Brooklyn Firefly in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn!
The Democrat Republican Switcheroo Jim Knable 2024-08-05 | I wrote this song a couple years ago. It's probably still relevant: Back in 1854The country was at the brink of warThe Kansas-Nebraska ActMade sure slav’ry stayed intactThe Whig Party had dropped dead flatKilled off by the DemocratsAnd so a new party was planned They were called RepublicansThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThey changed, they changedAnd now they're doing something newFremont ran but Abe LincolnWas the first RepublicanPresident to be electedNot yet then but now respectedGot us through the Civil WarThe GOP's the party forEmancipating enslaved menReconstructing our nationThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThey changed, they changedAnd now they're doing something newHerbert Hoover the RepublicanAt the start of the Great DepressionBelieved in rugged individualismGave his support to segregation And so the cities turned on himAnd stopped being so RepublicanThe Democrats led by FranklinRoosevelt took the votes from himThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThey changed, they changedAnd now they're doing something newFDR made a new dealProhibition he repealedThe CCC and the WPAThe Fair Employment Practice todaySo the Democrats became The party in the people's nameCivil Rights was on its wayAfter World War II had playedThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThey changed, they changedAnd now they're doing something newJFK and LBJ One of them lived to fight another dayThe Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights ActJoined together white, brown, and blackThen Nixon and Reagan found religionChanged the Republican visionThen there's Reagan DemocratsA thousand points of light and a cowboy hatThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThey changed, they changedAnd now they're doing something newAnd now we’re talking todayPeople wandering around not knowing what to do or sayPeople say there might be a party splitWe're just going to have to watch and see what becomes of itSo the capital was stormedMaybe there's a new party’s informedWe don’t know but we shall seeWhat becomes of historyThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThe Democrat Republican SwitcherooThey changed, they changedAnd now they're doing something new
People Change by Jim Knable (second half) at Porch Stomp 2024 Jim Knable 2024-07-13 | PEOPLE CHANGEKeep the tracks before the trainNever turn your back on rainEverything will stay the sameUntil you changeUnder stacks of fallen fameKnown by six or seven namesWhen the proud attack the tameAnd shame the vainPeople changePeople changePeople changeTake me to the wooden shedWith a pitchfork stone and bedThere’s a whole lot being saidThat’s not doneWhen you’re dead and undergroundOr on your head and makin’ soundIt’s just instead of going roundThat you comePeople changePeople chang-un’Fiddle play and guitar strumLook what we have overcomeOh I can’t believe what we have overcameLookin’ out across the townRooftops red and black and brownThere’s some people that I’ve foundThat are strangePeople changePeople changePeople change(Vocal breakdownand instrumental/dance break heart attack)Under Chekhov’s Cherry TreesBalzac’s birds and Bessie’s beesThere’s some people that are freeWhen they’re boundUnder swinging pendulumsBy the drum before the drumWe are so often overcomeBefore we’re foundPeople changePeople change aroundBut the mission of the manIs to plan before you standI think I understandI understandBuilding towers in the skyIs just one way to get highThere are others if you tryTo name themPeople changePeople changeWhen you change themCrossing bridges in the rainGets you just as wet the sameAs the river running tameBeneath youKeep the tracks before the trainNever turn your back on rainPeople change, people changeWe need you(First two stanzas)People changePeople changePeople change
“The Impossible Dream” (Jacques Brel Style) sung by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2024-07-12 | As a long time fan of Jacques Brel, who sang this song in Belgian French, I wanted do my version of his version in English. This is a rough draft in which I think I hit most of the right notes with probably the right chords. Music by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics written by Joe Darion, from the 1965 Broadway musical Man of La Mancha. Photo of Jacques Brel in the public domain.
Lord Buckley rehearsal with Spiff at Claudias Jim Knable 2024-06-20 | After years of messing around with the arrangement for this song, we tried stripping it down to how it was supposed to go to begin with and that's how we built the song up for eventual studio recording. COMING IN FALL 2024!
“I’ll Do Anything” by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2024-06-12 | Mainly transcribed from a guy on the train up to the Bronx.
“Side of Those Guys” by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2024-04-21 | “Side of Those Guys” I met a bunch of those guysYou know, from supposedly the other sideA bunch of kids and a couple older guysPutting on a playAbout the fighting everywhereAnd how it made them run and made them scaredAnd how every day they thought they were preparedBut they kept going anywayI hung around with some other folksSung some songs and told some jokesThe best of those were funny and at the same time sadI might have claimed some blood and some landBut I slipped in the mud and I sank in the sandI couldn’t really stand with them and it made me feel badI’m on the side of those who are trying to survive Trying to live a good clean life, have a bunch of kids and maybe even thriveGet out of the house drive to the storeWithout getting killed in any kind of warYeah, I know what it’s for, but I’m on the side of those guysI know some are gonna take it wrongNot hear the words of this songSo I’ll reiterate it all night longThere’s more than two sides I like the guys on both sides of the wallWho don’t think it should be there at allWho know that all this fighting is wrongThere’s nothing that it ever decides ChorusFirst verseChorusCopyright 2024 by Jim Knable
“Tuesday Parking Spot Rag” by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2023-11-14 | I voice dictated some words while driving, edited them into a song while sitting in the car to wait out the street cleaner (using a ukulele), and then recorded this on the guitar that was handy. Fresh from today! Here are the lyrics:I can’t get down to Nashville, I got some kids who are living here. If I could take them with me, I’d go there every year.I can’t get out to LA to make a million dollars. I’m on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, trying to be a better father. I’ve done some things that I’m proud of and a lot I wish I didn’t, I’m stuck in New York in a bowl of chowder doing someone else’s biddin’.I’m listening to Neal Casal, Maggie Carson, and Todd Snider. I’d like to be like all of them if I were the decider.But fate has a way of working out to make it better. I’m stuck in Brooklyn in a Tuesday spot, voice dictating like a telegram, stop, no, more like a lost love letter.I can’t get down to Asheville, but I can make it up to Harlem, hang out with my ne’er-do-wells or whatever you might call ‘em. Just a bunch of reckless dreamers self-releasing all their passions. You can’t keep us from believing that we someday we’ll be in fashion.But fate has a way of working out to make it better. I’m stuck in Brooklyn in a Tuesday spot, voice dictating like a telegram, stop, no, more like a lost love letter.I can’t get out to LA, tell Matt Shakman I’m successful. I’m lying, but that’s okay, that’s expected in this hustle.I’m your broke and homeless singer friend looking for a silver lining, in the gold pot at the rainbow’s end that everyone I know Instagram seems to be finding.Fate has a way of working out to make it better. I’m stuck in Brooklyn in a Tuesday spot, voice dictating like a telegram, stop, no, more like a lost love letter.
“Differently” a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2023-10-19 | I wrote this song last summer. I was raised in Sacramento and that explains it.
“Hello, Stranger” the A.P. Carter Traditional sung by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2023-10-09 | I had a dream this morning that I was looking for records at a bookstore and I found an old one with some folk songs on it and I recognized “Hello Stranger”—usually attributed to A.P. Carter. I love the version the Carter Family sings, but I was hearing it slightly differently, so I thought I’d try recording it for you all who like traditional songs. It helped that my voice was extra deep this morning. Now that Johnny Cash isn’t around, somebody’s gotta do it. Hope you enjoy and that it makes you think of your own personal Stranger. Feel free to dedicate it to them in the comments.
Divide & Unify a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2023-04-06 | Inspired by the recent reaction to a recording I made of "John Brown's Body," I thought it might be time to put this newer song out into the world in this form. Just me singing it in front of some pots and pans. I wrote the song after I realized that the engine of America is dividing and unifying (and dividing and unifying and dividing and...)
Sun Rises and Falls by Jim Knable — Live at Rockwood Music Hall, NYC 1/6/23 Jim Knable 2023-03-28 | Performed by Jim Knable & The Randy BanditsJim Knable: Guitar and vocalSpiff Wiegand: DrumsJay Buchanan: BassClaudia Mogel: FiddleHear more Jim Knable & The Randy Bandits music and help support getting this song on the next album at jimknableandtherandybandits.bandcamp.comCopyright 2023 by Jim Knable(Photos by Jim Knable)
Ladies of New Jersey by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2023-01-03 | A song about disenfranchisement written for Luna Stage's Voting Writes Project in 2020. The full album of Jim Knable's Songs of Suffrage is available at jimknableandtherandybandits.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-suffrage and your favorite streaming platforms (Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, etc.)Jim Knable - Guitar, vocal, harmonica Mel Johnston - Vocal Audio Engineered by Jay Buchanan Video Edited by Joey Yow
Piece of Mind - March 18, 2022 Jim Knable 2022-03-18 | I keep figuring out how to sing this song I wrote recently. Pretty close here, I think.
Never Any Right Age by Jim Knable, performed with The Randy Bandits Jim Knable 2020-08-06 | http://www.jimknable.com and jimknableandtherandybandits.bandcamp.com"Never Any Right Age" from the new album by Jim Knable & The Randy BanditsBLUE REUNION Coming this SeptemberJim Knable: Lead vocal, acc. guitar Russ Kaplan: PianoChris Q. Murphy: Electric guitarJay Buchanan: Bass, backing voxSunny Knable: DrumsCopyright 2020 by Jim Knable
There Is Power in a Union by Joe Hill (performed by Jim Knable) Jim Knable 2020-07-24 | I first performed this song for the Gilder Lehrman History School in my course American History through Song in the summer of 2020. I enjoyed performing it so much, I wanted to share it and encourage a singalong. Tip of the hat to Joe Hill, wherever he is.Would you have freedom from wage slavery, Then join in the grand Industrial band; Would you from mis’ry and hunger be free, Then come! Do your share, lend a hand. CHORUS There is pow’r, there is pow’r In a band of workingmen, When they stand hand in hand, That’s a pow’r, that’s a pow’r That must rule in every land- One Industrial Union Grand. Would you have mansions of gold in the sky, And live in a shack, way in the back? Would you have wings up in heaven to fly, And starve here with rags on your back? If you’ve had “nuff” of “the blood of the lamb,” Then join in the grand Industrial band; If, for a change, you would have eggs and ham, Then come, do your share, lend a hand. If you like sluggers to beat off your head, Then don’t organize, all unions despise, If you want nothing before you are dead, Shake hands with your boss and look wise. Come, all ye workers, from every land, Come, join in the grand Industrial band, Then we our share of this earth shall demand. Come on! Do your share, lend a hand.
Ballad of the Green Mountaineer performed by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2020-07-06 | Based on the poem "Song of the Vermonters, 1779" by abolitionist Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892), ca. 1828. Image: Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, ca. 1856 (Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC08878.0075).
Was My Brother in the Battle? by Stephen Foster, performed by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2020-05-23 | In loving memory of Richard Gilder.Image: "Was my brother in the battle?" by Stephen Foster in 1862. Published in New York City by Charles Magnus. (Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC03619.01.08)
“I Used to Be So Friendly” a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2020-04-14 | Copyright 2020 by Jim KnableI’ve been looking aroundAt the trees without any leavesThe leaves blow in the windThey’re such helpless defenseless creaturesI used to be so friendlyI used to be so friendly But then I changed Then I changedAnd now I’m not so friendly anymoreI went into the Marie CalendarsWith my parents and wife, we were desperately poorSo we ordered some food, sat down until it cameThen all dashed outside to the station wagon doorMy brother was already sitting in the carSo was my grandfather and all our bagsEverybody got in, I was the very last to fit,We peeled out, won’t be going to Marie Calendars againI used to be so friendlyI used to be so friendly But then I changed Then I changedAnd now I’m not so friendly anymoreIn another dream I was working in Nashville Where you don’t play your own songs, but you write hooks for hireI voiced my disappointment, but I said I understood and was glad to have the work and not to be fired Wait I know what that dream is about nowBut I’m not gonna say it hereIt’s nice when you have a dream that helps you figure something outEven if the meaning of it isn’t so clear I used to be so friendlyI used to be so friendlyI guess I changed, I guess I changedNow I’m not so friendly any moreWait that’s just a dream Where I was singing this songIn a brunch place in the middle of a Sacramento strip mallMy wife would never let us dine and dash like thatMy parents aren’t that poor None of us live in Sacramento any more
“Mourning Dove” a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2020-04-08 | Recorded by Jim Knable, Jay Buchanan, and Sunny Knable
“Songs of Bravery” by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2020-04-06 | Lyrics and music by Jim KnableCopyright 2020I can still hear the shot round the worldThe Lexington minute men musket ball hurledPaul Revere rode, it was one if by landOr two if by sea, and they came by seaSinging songs of braveryTry to remember the last civil warWhen everyone knew what they weren’t fighting forIt wasn’t the land, it wasn’t for goodsIt was slaveryAnd they all sang songs of braveryBe it in England or be it in FranceSee it in Germany, ask me to danceBlitzkrieg or Avignon, Dresden, NagasakiBombed for the sake of the vagariesWhile we all sang songs of bravery The legend of Zorro, of Robin the HoodWho robs and who kills and who gives to the goodSherwood, California, HollywoodCampfire smoke strong and savoryAs we all sing songs of braveryDown in Jerusalem and PalestineNorth and South Ireland all in a lineBold Spanish Noblemen ravaging all of AmericaColonization and causing a nation of knaveryAnd we all sing songs of its braveryThe Titanic, Towers, the last Spanish fluWe are what they were and they did what we doThey huddle together and suffer as oneIn the shirt waist fire factory by the WaverleySinging songs of Bravery
“When This Is Over” a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2020-03-29 | When this is overI’m going to AcapulcoRent a casinoHave all my friends come with meDance in a congaLine up all touching shouldersWhen this is overI’ll be a better personWhen this is overI’ll fly a plane to ParisTake all my familyGo up the Eiffel TowerGo in a bookstoreLean up against the casesRide on the MetroRide the train back to LondonWhen this is overI’ll be a better personHelp all my neighborsGive them a turkey dinnerWent up to the cemeteryWith my kids, my parents, three generationsIn the Honda PilotSaw the river belowSaluted lady libertyMinerva, Leonard Bernstein, and meOn revolutionary hillWhen this is overI’ll drive across the countryStop in the hotels Stop at the filling stationStay with more familyPick up the odd hitchhikerTake him to breakfastSit in the smoking sectionTell everybodyThat I’m a better personNow that it’s overI’m going to change foreverEverybody’s walking in the cemeteryCouples and friendsA mother with her sonDriving their cars Parking next to the cryptsAnd my sons looked inSaid what is this we’re seeing?And I said when this over When this is over
“Everything Is Not All Right” by Jim Knable (performed with sons) Jim Knable 2020-03-22 | We recorded this in October of 2019. I wrote it in 2017. The machine is in the steeple. It is not all right. Giving power to the people. It is not all right. The bluebird fell the eagle. It is not all right. Everything is not all right.When they say he will get better. It is not all right. When they say you can write letters. It is not all right. When your chains have turned to fetters. It is not all right. Everything is not all right.It's only rock and roll. But it is not all right. Going for an evening stroll. And it is not all right. The police are on patrol. Yet it is not all right. Everything is not all right.Through the chants and all the candles. It is not all right. Taking all that I can handle. It is not all right. All the Visigoths and Vandals. Say it is not all right. Everything is not all right.Pledge allegiance to our nation. It is not all right. Take a paid vacation. It is not all right. Tell the doctors and the patients. It is not all right. Everything is not all right.Tell Jesus and Mohammed, it is not all right. Tell Moses and the Brahmins, it is not all right. Hanging on to Haley's Comet. It is not all right. Everything is not all right.For the women and the men. It is not all right. One more time again. It is not all right. This is not the end. It is not all right. Everything is not all right.
“Citadel” a song by Jim Knable, in rehearsal 11/30/19 Jim Knable 2019-11-30 | A new song in rehearsal for the new 2020 Jim Knable & The Randy Bandits album BLUE REUNION. Releasing in download form Dec 8 at jimknableandtherandybandits.bandcamp.com/album/blue-reunion. Stream away at youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k7YbHws0jt_0wkgSfCNgpmALtxO3U8y0IJay Buchanan on bassSunny Knable on organJim Knable In vocal and guitarCopyright 2020 by Jim Knable
Last chorus of Lifetime Ago by Jim Knable at Freddys Bar and Backroom May 11, 2019 Jim Knable 2019-10-21 | A little taste of a song I'm going to record for my new album. gofundme.com/f/the-first-jim-knable-solo-studio-album-in-20-years Jay Buchanan and Sunny Knable, playing with me here, will be playing with me and some select other musicians and singers on most of the album songs. I would be grateful for any help you are able to give to the effort. I promise it will be worth it.
Horizon a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2019-06-27 | Recorded by Matt Rocker at Underground Audio in NYC on November 30, 2014, this brief interlude represents the live concerts I gave with Carolyn Stone singing with me in that year. Jay Buchanan plays bass and Sunny Knable plays accordion in these recordings:jimknableandtherandybandits.bandcamp.com/album/sights-unseenCopyright 2014 by Jim Knable
American History, a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2019-06-19 | Copyright 2019 by Jim KnableFrom the streaming and downloadable EP "Rainy Night Songs" jimknableandtherandybandits.bandcamp.com/album/rainy-night-songs
The Human Machine a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2019-06-10 | My security’s been compromisedI’m caught in this websiteNever open attachmentsThat you can’t identifyI need the passwordBut she always signs me inShe’ll look it up when she gets homeBut I don’t know whenI don’t have the bandwidthTo process the dataThat you gave to me or sent to me Or posted last nightI’m all out of memoryMy start up is completely fullI can’t run this programSee my error message, please(musical interlude)I backed it up on the CloudBut now the whole server’s downIt’s really got me feeling likeI’m down and out and crashingI can’t sleep, restore meRestart me, now, for weFind all of our problemsFix themselves when we turn them off and on againEncrypted, encodedUp and downloadedMy laptop is burningMy desktop is oldWhere is the internet?Have they hacked the server yet?I wrote this all downWith voice recognition.Copyright 2019 by Jim Knablewww.jimknable.com
Ireland in 99 (with Belle and Sebastian) a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2019-06-07 | Written in January 2019. Recorded by Jim Knable June 6, 2019.Copyright 2019 by Jim KnableSpecial thanks to Niall Connolly and Big City Folk
Peter Pan in El Paso a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2019-06-03 | I wrote this song over the weekend of June 1 and 2, 2019. Pictured are the objects I looked at while writing it.Copyright 2019 by Jim Knable
Jim Knables Fight the Hungry Lions at Freddys Back Room 5 11 19 Jim Knable 2019-05-12 | I was thrilled to pull together some old and new friends (plus my brother) to play a gig at Freddy's Bar and Back Room on May 11, 2019. Here is our closing song, an audience favorite from my band The Randy Bandits' REDBEARD album.Jim Knable-Guitar, lead vocalJay Buchanan- Bass, vocalsSunny Knable- Percussion, vocalsRachel Hutchins- VocalsDeidre Rodman Struck- Keyboard, vocalsChris Q. Murphy- Electric guitar"Fight the Hungry Lions" copyright 2006 by Jim Knable and The Randy Bandits
Dont Get Lost by Jim Knable (in rehearsal with The Randy Bandits, Winter 2009) Jim Knable 2018-11-05 | A song with some advice in it. Recorded live in a rehearsal as a demo for future use.
Jim Knable at the Songwriter Deathmatch in Freddys Back Room, Brooklyn Jim Knable 2018-02-26 | February 10, 2018. Nick Lowe night at the Songwriter Deathmatch, hosted by Dave Keener.Songs included:"Won't Drag Me Down" by Jim Knable"Chasing Monsters" by Jim Knable"Citadel" by Jim Knable"The Beast in Me" by Nick Lowe by way of Johnny CashCopyright 2018 by Jim Knablehttp://jimknable.com
Shalom for the Challah Days by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2017-12-19 | A holiday song in the Judeo-Christian Tragi-comedy tradition. Lyrics by Jim Knable. Music by Jim Knable with an acknowledged ripping off of Joni Mitchell. Featured on the Unorthodox Podcast http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/251415/unorthodox-episode-116-jordana-horn-gordon-reza-aslanGuitar and Vocal- Jim KnablePiano, Accordion, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Arrangement, Engineering- Joshua Joy KamenskyA Jewbadour ProductionCopyright 2017 by Jim Knable
Am I Good Enough a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2017-07-08 | A song dictated from a dream, played on my son's instruments, with him on the "yeah-yeah's." http://www.jimknable.com
Bei Mir Bistu Shein Sung By Valentine Biollay and Jim Knables Birthday Bandits Jim Knable 2017-05-15 | To learn more about Valentine: valentinebiollay.comTo learn more about Jim Knable and his band: http://jimknable.com
Talking to Randy by Jim Knable with the Birthday Bandits at City Winery on May 7, 2017 Jim Knable 2017-05-14 | Copyright 2017 by Jim KnableRecorded live at City Winery, May 7, 2017Jim Knable on Guitar and VocalRuss Kaplan on PianoClaudia Mogel on ViolinTim Otto on Tenor SaxSaskia Lane on BassMick Oakleaf on DrumsSpiff Wiegand on Accordion
The Stars by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2017-04-09 | This song was recorded in 2007 for the secret Jim Knable and The Randy Bandits album "Green Man." Artwork by Beeb Salzer. Recording by Stacey Wong. Copyright 2007 by Jim Knable.
Little White Book by Jim Knable (Live at City Winery) Jim Knable 2017-03-04 | "Little White Book" by Jim Knable (Live at City Winery with The Jewbadourians)
7 Western Winds by Jim Knable (Live at City Winery Feb 19, 2017) Jim Knable 2017-03-04 | 7 Western Winds at City Winery Feb 19, 2017 written and performed by Jim Knable, with FriendsJim Knable on Lead Vocal and GuitarClaudia Mogel on FiddleJay Buchanan on Bass and Backing VocalsRuss Kaplan on AccordionMick Oakleaf on DrumsTim Otto on TambourineLive mix engineered by Mick OakleafSong originally released 2009 by The Randy Bandits on GOLDEN ARROW, Copyright Jim Knable 2009
LA Jews (a song by Jim Knable) live at the JCC Manhattan Jim Knable 2017-02-04 | Jim Knable and the "Jewbadourians" played as the house band for Tablet Magazine's Unorthodox Podcast, recorded live at the Manhattan JCC on January 25, 2017. They performed this song by Jim Knable. Jim Knable on guitar and voiceClaudia Mogel on fiddleSunny Knable on accordionThe entire podcast can be heard here: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/223415/unorthodox-episode-76-jonathan-goldstein-ross-douthat-jen-spyra
It Is Not All Right a song by Jim Knable Jim Knable 2017-01-22 | It Is Not All Right- a song by Jim Knable Copyright 2017The machine is in the steeple. It is not all right. Giving power to the people. It is not all right. The bluebird fell the eagle. It is not all right. Everything is not all right.When they say he will get better. It is not all right. When they say you can write letters. It is not all right. When your chains have turned to fetters. It is not all right. Everything is not all right.It's only rock and roll. But it is not all right. Going for an evening stroll. And it is not all right. The police are on patrol. Yet it is not all right. Everything is not all right.Through the chants and all the candles. It is not all right. Taking all that I can handle. It is not all right. All the Visigoths and Vandals. Say it is not all right. Everything is not all right.Pledge allegiance to our nation. It is not all right. Take a paid vacation. It is not all right. Tell the doctors and the patients. It is not all right. Everything is not all right.Tell Jesus and Mohammed, it is not all right. Tell Moses and the Brahmins, it is not all right. Hanging on to Haley's Comet. It is not all right. Everything is not all right.For the women and the men. It is not all right. One more time again. It is not all right. This is not the end. It is not all right. Everything is not all right.
