Boston’s Celt-punks Dropkick Murphys have announced a new record Okemah Rising. The album continues the purpose of last year’s This Machine Still Kills Fascists; both acoustic recordings built around recently unearthed, previously unpublished lyrics written by Woody Guthrie and recorded in Tulsa. The record will drop 12 May via DKM’s Dummy Luck Music. The band has begun to take pre-orders.
Guests prepared to perform on Okemah Rising include Violent Femmes, Jesse Ahern and Jamie Wyatt, while frontman Ken Casey noted the album’s closer will be “Shipping Up To Boston – Tulsa Version.” The band’s founder reveals:
“Many people never realized that the lyrics for ‘I’m Shipping Up To Boston’ were written by Woody Guthrie, so we felt it important to include the song on this project and give it a proper home among the rest of our collaborations with his lyrics. We knew we needed to add some twists and turns to make this version special and fitting for this collection, so we gave it the Tulsa treatment.”
To coincide with the album announcement, the band has also released the first single, “I Know How It Feels.”
Bad Dad (occasionally called Ed) has been on the periphery of the punk and punk-adjacent scene for over twenty years. While many contributors to this site have musical experience and talent, Ed’s musical claim to fame comes from his time in arguably the most punk rock Blockbuster Video district in NJ where he worked alongside members of Blanks 77, Best Hit TV and Brian Fallon. He is more than just an awful father to his 2 daughters, he is also a dreadful husband, a subpar writer, a terrible dresser and has a severe deficiency in all things talent… but hey, at least he’s self-aware, amirite?
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