The Liar Tweets Tonight by Ron Zimmerman and the ReZisters.
I
have posted no overtly political songs so
far in the Murfin Home Confinement Music
Festival or any of the several satires
created for the Coronavirus epidemic
that have been posted all over social media and YouTube. Instead I have
preferred to harvest and present existing sounds in various genres that in some way speak to our present condition. But Roy
Zimmerman’s fresh new video The Liar Tweets Tonight is to spot on and hilarious to pass up.
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Roy Zimmerman on stage.
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Zimmerman
has often been compared to Tom Lehrer over
his thirty-year career—topical,
insightful, and hilarious. His songs have also been compared to the
long-running ensemble revues by the Capital Steps but that group plays for
those in power in Washington and the media insiders who watch them and must tread lightly to avoid seriously offending the powerful or
offering and really radical commentary. Zimmerman does not care whose toes are trampled and is unapologetically on the Left.
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Zimmerman's wife and collaborator Melanie Harby.
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He
co-writes most of his songs with his
wife Melanie Harby, a three-time West Coast bluegrass guitar champion
and an actress/singer in the
original cast of Quilters on Broadway. In addition to their satirical songs
Zimmerman and Harby have also
written hundreds of children’s songs
for Disney, Warner Bros, Looney Tunes,
and McGraw and Hill.
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Zimmerman's most recent album.
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Zimmerman
has produced 19 albums, most
recently Rize Up, and tours
relentlessly playing on college
campuses, coffee houses and folk clubs, and very frequently Unitarian Universalist churches. A couple of years ago he played at the Tree of Life UU Congregation in McHenry, Illinois. He says that he:
…brings laughter
and encouragement to the Blue Dots—the
most progressive people in some of
the least progressive places in the nation. I get accused of preaching to the
converted, but that’s not how I think of it. I think of it as entertaining the troops.
