song 102 : Welcome to America (Tacoma Ballet)

You can hear me telling the band I want punk rock and fast, but look what they gave me! Tacoma, and the Woody Guthrie Exhibition at the Tacoma Museum, had cast an Americana music spell I had to go with.

John Lennon said he didn’t feel he’d done his job unless his song was censored. This song has the distinction of being censored by liberals and conservatives alike! In Portland Maine the radio station received complaints from listeners who didn’t hear the sarcasm in my portrayal of America seducing and bullying. But the song was also censored by a few college stations in military towns.

This is one of the most popular songs on Tacoma Ballet. As for the concept album storyline, Welcome to America sets the stage like in a movie when the camera out in space focuses first on America before zooming down to the city, and then the street where the story takes place.

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