I mentioned earlier this week how I've got some liner notes in Go Waggaloo!, the kids album Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion recorded for Smithsonian Folkways.
I knew that there'd be some fun stuff posted in run-up to the album's Oct. 27th release, and the first stuff o' fun is now available -- a streaming preview of "'Cuz We're Cousins." Musically, it's right in the Smithsonian Folkways folk wheelhouse, but lyrically, I'm pretty sure it's the first time the Xbox gets a line in a Folkways song. Listen here. So, yeah, it's clearly not one of the 3 songs Woody Guthrie wrote lyrics for on the album, but he totally would've made an Xbox reference if he were still alive...
Oh, and folks in New York and San Francisco can see Sarah Lee and Johnny play a couple kids' related shows -- a fundraiser for Clearwater September 11 in Tarrytown, NY and a -- here, I'm looking at you, Deb -- a benefit concert with Pete Seeger and The Waybacks for The Center for Steinbeck Studies September 18 in San Francisco. And more family shows are on their way...
