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Nekesa Moody, Associated Press, interviewed Annie. Watch for her piece early May. Christian Science Monitor also highlighted "First Obama Song"ILLINOIS BOY, a soft country allegory,by Annie Palovcik. On iTunes.
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Annie Palovcik: CHANGES
featuring ILLINOIS BOY (A Barack Obama Song)
Bob Dylan knew the power of song to influence the political climate. Now a new generation of songwriters is being inspired by Senator Barack Obama.
Among the collection is ILLINOIS BOY, a country allegory by Annie Palovcik, who first heard of the Senator while on holidays in Honolulu where he grew up. According to Teresa Mendez of the Christian Science Monitor in her February 28 article “she was the first to set pen to paper in tribute to the Senator from Illinois” and that “the folksy tune she wrote …is her way of political campaigning, envelope licking, door knocking.”
Her song is filled with simple everyday country images, a fun, whimsical and witty song about American values like love, marriage, a good cup of coffee and a good time.
BULLETIN #1
Barack Obama inspired the release of this 5-song Extended Play CD called CHANGES. I first heard about the Senator while on one of my annual holidays in Honolulu, where he grew up. Some of our Hawaiian friends' children had gone to school with him. They told me of their pride in this Senator from Illinois. And that he believed in a Dream. And he titled his autobiography THE AUDACITY TO HOPE.
I thought I would put out this song, ILLINOIS BOY, some time when he next ran a campaign. I guess this is that time. Hope it helps get him elected. This really is the time to make our dreams reality. All the songs in this collection are about CHANGE.
ILLINOIS BOY is witty, whimsical and fun, with a slight country flavor. A few friends have suggested that you can’t refer to a black man in America as a boy. But it’s not unusual in country music to call a youthful man a boy, and I think they are overlooking the change in race relations that Obama’s candidacy so clearly embodies. The title of my CD is CHANGES.
So, boys and girls, as it says in the last verse of ILLINOIS BOY, “Nothing’s ever gonna be the same!"
Annie Palovcik
P.S. Practice random acts of Daring and Hope today to make CHANGE happen. Listen to ILLINOIS BOY. Vote OBAMA.
P.P.S. Digitally download CHANGES: MP3 or on ITunes by song. Save the planet from plastic. That's your first act of hope.
(FREE AUDIO CLIP IS ONLY THE FIRST 2 MINUTES OF EACH SONG)
COMMENTS RECEIVED
Bob Ray Sanders, Associate Editor, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Very well done Great Composition and great performance. Congratulations!"
Rick Santelli at NBC Universal, CNBC
"Thanx annie reallllly enjoyed it!!!"
Susan Campbell at Hartford Courant
"Hey, cool song!"
Eric R.Danton/Sound Check courant.com
"earnest acoustic number with folky leanings" "an allegory of sorts".
Thanks to all the blogs, including cityroom.blogs.nytimes/2008/02/06
Obama Girl Didnt Vote - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog:
"The real Obama Girl, and the best Obama song, is the somewhat allegorical “Illinois Boy” by Annie Palovcik. Check it out at http://cdbaby.com/cd/anniepalovcik "
and to Aman Betheja of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for providing the link in his POLITEX - Presidential Campaign blog
BULLETIN NO.2 FEBRUARY 17, 2008
I am a Canadian who holidays each winter in Honolulu. In past years friends proudly told me of a senator from Illinois, who they saw as “their own”. Some had kids who had gone to the same school as had Senator Barack Obama. I wrote a song called ILLINOIS BOY and thought that it might help the Senator some time when he next ran a campaign. I guess that time is now.
It is a global universe today. I believed I had not only an opportunity to influence political choices in America, but had a responsibility to do so. Like the 60’s, I could do it with song.
Why Barack Obama? I grew up with the Beatles and Bob Dylan, the Kennedys and Trudeaumania. For me, it was all downhill after that, the decades of political disillusionment. Politicians all seemed to be liars and on the take. Senator Obama has inspired me to reengage with the political process. With him, idealism is no longer out of fashion. He has dared me to look at the infinite possibilities open to me and to the world; dared me to think of our potential.
I feel he cares about people, real people, country people. In my song, ILLINOIS BOY, my simple, everyday country images are sprinkled with kernels of truth. Of course “we’ve been waiting so long” for a politician who “isn’t into lying” and who makes us believe that (as it says in the last verse) “Nothing’s ever gonna be the same.” The song deals with real expectations—love, marriage, a good cup of coffee and a good time. The song, an obvious allegory, is about a dream, an ILLINOIS BOY who can lead the American people through difficult years ahead and inspire them to be part of the solution.
For me, putting out this song, ILLINOIS BOY, on cdbaby http://cdbaby.com/cd/anniepalovcik has been my form of political campaigning, my envelope licking, my door knocking. VOTE OBAMA
I am a songwriter, a published travel photographer, manager of country/folk singer, Alan Moberg (Moberg will be inducted into the BC Country Music Hall of Fame this August 17); and world: aboriginal performer Ed Peekeekoot (who will perform at the North American Indigenous Games Main international Stage on Vancouver Island Aug 3-10). I am married to author and journalist Tom Koppel (his "EBB AND FLOW" named a top global Science Book of '07 by Peter Calamai, Science Editor, Toronto Star.
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BULLETIN 3, FEBRUARY 29
One person CAN make a difference. Get out and do something.
ILLINOIS BOY (A Barack Obama Song)lyrics: a country allegory
ILLINOIS BOY’s coming home to me
I’ve been waiting so long
Wonder if he’ll marry me
I know we could get along
ILLINOIS BOY’s been gone awhile
He sent kisses in each letter
I know I can make him smile, when I say
Kisses on the lips are much better
Ch
And the BOY FROM ILLINOIS
Gonna stop his rambling, don’t go gambling
He gave up smoking, he’s always joking
He isn’t into lying, he keeps on smiling
And the BOY FROM ILLINOIS
He loves his cup of coffee
And the BOY FROM ILLINOIS
Loves me
ILLINOIS BOY brings his truck around
All shiny washed and vacuumed
He picks me up and we go to town
For dinner and drinking and dancing
ILLINOIS BOY loves the quiet
Of a country lane
He takes me there and he strokes my hair
Nothing’s ever gonna be the same
©APalovcik anniep@saltspring.com
BULLETIN #4,MAY
Watch for a piece about Obama Songs by Nekesa Mooday, music writer for Associated Press. She interviewed Annie Palovcik about her song ILLINOIS BOY, a country allegory. Available on iTunes.