Well it was a trifecta of soul searching this week! First, it was Ash Wednesday and the honest self-reflection of the fact that I truly don't do enough for my fellow man. Next came a former WinCraft associate who leans way right posted, "Yes! Let er rip! I DO NOT CARE WHO THEY ARE! It's time!" about the Epstein probe. If you guessed right she thinks Trump is innocent. How many times can he say everyone else is lying and he's telling the truth, when he is documented as the biggest liar ever to hold the President's office. Come on, 27 women and lying yet he's the one who bragged about grabbing their P*ssy.
Finally musically (and why you are here), I took time to listen to Emily Nenni's new song "Livin' in Shame" and knew I made the right call pre-ordering her new vinyl in Bandcamp. She's a future super star in Americana country, or maybe even mainstream country I don't care.
Shame, yep that's the word that Trump will never feel over any act he does that hurts immigrants, veterans, poor, farmers, or especially anyone living in a blue voting city. So as a lenten journey, let's journey through shame, victims, aggressors, pretenders, liars, and attempters, and yes this like the Satisfied playlist really had me diving deep into the collection requiring importing. So let's see how many songs will be found in Bandcamp or YouTube.
1) Livin' In Shame - Emily Nenni
Oh my, go pre-order her album, FUCK Spotify; and I have no shame in supporting music instead hiding behind a Spotify subscription that pays artists pennies if they get paid at all.
I do wonder how they got her lips in sync going backward, but I posted a comment so I'm on record that she is the most beautiful at the end of the video.
2) Shame - Lindsay Lou
Of course when I saw the first search I said, "yippee a Lindsay Lou song" A dear friend of hers also is in this playlist at slot 7, and yes I was lucky to host Lindsay at our house concert before she got too big.
Plus a great live video with an incredible all woman band. Don't fret boys, she could get any guy she wanted, she's a saint and sinner to play with.
3) Hidden Shame - Elvis Costello
Boy this recent acquisition of Secret, Profane and Sugarcane has show up a few times, oh this song is so perfect. You should listen to the studio copy, but this is too fun not to share with Jim Lauderdale and Jerry Douglas smiling and playing along to an Elvis original.
4) Ain't it a Shame - Martin Gilmore
Amazingly I love Martin and know him for his great original songs, but this is a cover that fits nicely into the next song too. He explains it as:
This is a traditional song that goes by many names. Like a lot of old songs, some of the original lyrics might not be so suitable for a modern world, but the nice thing about folk songs is that they can be updated, changed, manipulated, re-imagined, reinvented, and so on. Fiddlin’ John Carson recorded this song but called it “Ain’t it a Shame to Work on Sunday”. I got it from Leadbelly, and changed it a little bit.
Well searching YouTube I didn't expect to see this smiling face, here you go.
5) It's a Shame to Whip Your Wife on Sunday - The New Prairie Ramblers
Yikes, I'm not into maintaining old culture when it's so wrong, but to hear it so that you know it existed is important. Oh yeah.. Fuck Trump who wants to erase history, that is the real shame.
6) My, My, Isn't it a Shame - Rachel Kurtz
From a great 2018 album "Love, Rachel Kurtz" this Christian singer sure has a set of pipes.
7) Shame, Shame, Shame - Lake Street Dive
Another 2018 album, and of course another lead singer named Rachel; nope I didn't plan it that way.
Yep... I could listen to Rachel sing all night and once we did up at the Dakota in Mspls, with Vilray.
8) For Shame of Doing Wrong - Kevin Neidig & Henry Koretzky with Aaron Blouin
I picked up this wonderful vinyl direct from Kevin after meeting him at SERFA, their cover of Richard Thompson's song will replace this original by Richard when I get a second to create and upload it to YouTube.
9) Shameless - Garth Brooks
Ha, I guess Garth mirrors Trump in that he believes he is shameless.
10) Shame - Laura Zettler
Oh this MySpace musician I followed intensely, has now given up making music. I loved her as a change of pace, and was a good writer.
11) Shame On The Moon - Rodney Crowell
I just picked up this 1981 self-title gem last week thinking if I'm going to see him for the first time this June 2026 at the Moccasin Creek Festival, I should know more of his back catalog. Hey maybe since he just re-recorded it in 2018 he'll have it in his playlist.
12) Crying Shame - Jack Johnson
Ok this is the first of three crying shames, all completely unique.
13) Shame on You - Indigo Girls
Sometimes I stop at a Dave's Dozen, but I loved these all, so then I hit my other limit of 16 covers fill the page. It took awhile to find this "Shaming of the Sun" cd to import it. I had tossed or lost the sleeve, so I looked in three spindles and an old carrying case, only to finally find it in the other Indigo Girls cd. Sure it fit two nicely, and I now I noted that in my Discogs page in case I'm looking for it again.
14) Ain't No Shame - Rory Block
Yes she is such a great blues voice, and I only have three albums from her.
15) Cryin' Shame - Stay Cats
I loved that I inherited this rarer Germany released album "Gonna Ball" Five of the Twelve songs were released later on their first American compilation release; so it's pretty cool this song is only on the European release.
16) Crying Shame - Kate Wolf
Right a total 360 from the Stray Cats, and it gave me a great reason to import the 1985 gem "Poet's Heart." Rare to hear Kate sing a duet this time with Alan Thornhill.
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