Artists:Joel Mabus
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Joel Mabus is a Folksinger, songwriter, poet, moralist, humorist. His style is friendly, familiar, insightful, and understated. Imagine Mark Twain with a guitar, or a banjo. Or maybe an heir to Pete Seeger. As much fun as he has with some of the songs, he takes his calling pretty seriously.
In Joel's own words: "What I'd like to discuss here is the problem many of us had to face those first weekends of war, when we drove off to do the sound checks for our scheduled gigs. What songs do we choose to sing? And what words do we choose to say? The night the first bombs fell in Baghdad, Joan Baez was giving a concert in my hometown. She told her audience from the stage what was happening, and being Joan, gave her opinion of American policy.... That same weekend, I was touring the Midwest with Tom Paxton. We both tailored our sets to the situation; yet found that our left-leaning audiences also really needed a few laughs too. And so each of us as performers - as entertainers - has had to deal with the war in his or her own way.... It has been sometimes said that the modern folk society is something like a church to its members - that the performers are like circuit-riding evangelists, ministering each week the milk of human kindness to the local flock. I'm not sure that analogy is entirely valid, but there are times I believe there is much truth in the notion.
It makes me ponder this job of folksinging. Am I there to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, as the old preachers say? I certainly have caught myself preaching to the choir from time to time. Should I play a happy tune and get folks to forget their troubles? Or should I play the Jeremiah and pound the pulpit? I think there are no pat answers, no easy solutions. I find that each night is a new situation and each audience sits in front of me with different needs and desires. I've never been one to play the same set-list night after night, but now more than ever, I find myself searching for that perfect mix of songs that will both express my thoughts & feelings and yet speak to my audience in a meaningful way.".
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| Joel Mabus on MySpace |
| Joel Mabus on Wikipedia |
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Alice And Ralph | Promised Land | 4:23 | 37 |  15 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Folk / Acoustic guitar / Solo vocalist / Acoustic | Somewhere, Somebody's Waiting For You | Flatpick And Clawhammer | 4:12 | 12 | 9 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Folk / Acoustic guitar / Solo vocalist / Acoustic | Wondrous Love (Captain Kidd) | The Banjo Monologues | 2:01 | 2 | 4 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Solo performer / Banjo / Instrumental |
| Total Time | 10:36 |
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- Spotlighted: Saturday, April 16th 2005
- Songs on WWR: 146
- Total plays: 2372
- Total requests: 1096
- Total listens: 45850
- CDBaby referrals: 1
- CDBaby sales: The Banjo Monologues (Sold 1 copies)
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