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Words and Music by Blake Jape
Produced and Arranged by Michael Alonso
Recorded and Mixed by Andrew ‘Idge’ Hehir at Soundpark Studio
Additional recordings by Michael Alonso
Mastered by Lindsay Gravina at Birdland Studio

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See those talking heads
With their news room sets
You can tell by the way they dress
In cheap rented rooms
They manufacture doom
It’s a budget, low rent production
Take any news situation
Smother it in speculation
It’s almost Machiavellian
You know they don’t have to be fair
They don’t have to be accurate
If they’re wrong, not sorry, move on

Ain’t no news it’s just a name
WIth the global outrage machine
Ain’t no news it’s just a name
WIth the global outrage machine

There is much hyperbole
And all the gesturing
But the evidence
It’s out of discipline
Feel like your land surveying
With a rhetorician
Selling subscriptions

Ain’t no news it’s just a name
WIth the global outrage machine
Ain’t no news it’s just a name
WIth the global outrage machine

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from Blake County and the Modern Proletariats, released March 13, 2023
Blake Jape – vocals, 12 string acoustic
Michael Alonso – pedal steel guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Helen Cattanach – bass, backing vocals
Woody – drums, backing vocals
Ewen Baker - mandolin

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Blake County and the Modern Proletariats Melbourne, Australia

Building from traditional progressions of the early country folk blues recordings; with the lyrics that are a tribute to Woody Guthrie, but not so much the sentimental stuff, more the satirical end of his work. Blake County and the Modern Proletariats are mostly singing contemporary commentary with the intention to amuse. ... more

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