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C.C. Rider the Venerator: Tax Payin’ Blues

C.C. RiderBy C.C. RiderApril 15, 2015Updated:April 10, 2020No Comments1 Min Read
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This is the latest from The Bluesmobile’s C.C. Rider, who spends her life venerating the founding fathers of the blues. She’s walked the crooked highways of this singing country to resurrect the voices of the past. With the dirt of the Delta on her hands, she sleeps in the shadow of the giants on whose shoulders popular music now stands.

It might be a luxury tax, might be a sales tax, might be an emotional tax you gotta pay the one you love. No matter what kind of tax it is, nobody likes payin’ ’em. And when you don’t like something, there’s one thing you can do about it. Sing the blues. Like Brownie McGhee and Ralph Willis.

Here’s the tale of another Tax track. One by J.B. Lenoir. It was written in the 1950’s to protest the president’s tax hikes. And originally called “Eisenhower Blues.” But back then, you just couldn’t bad mouth the leader of the free world in a pop song like that. Still, if there’s one thing everyone likes to bad mouth. It’s taxes. So they changed the name of the song. Here’s J.B. Lenoir and the re-titled, “Tax Paying Blues.”

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C.C. Rider, who spends her life venerating the founding fathers of the blues. She’s walked the crooked highways of this singing country to resurrect the voices of the past. With the dirt of the Delta on her hands, she sleeps in the shadow of the giants on whose shoulders popular music now stands.

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