{"id":27746,"date":"2017-08-15T14:34:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T22:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27746"},"modified":"2017-08-15T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T22:45:22","slug":"in-the-wake-of-charlottesville-wilco-releases-all-lives-you-say-and-raises-money-for-southern-poverty-law-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-08\/in-the-wake-of-charlottesville-wilco-releases-all-lives-you-say-and-raises-money-for-southern-poverty-law-center\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Wake of Charlottesville, Wilco Releases &#8220;All Lives, You Say?&#8221; And Raises Money For Southern Poverty Law Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WilcoAllLives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WilcoAllLives-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WilcoAllLives-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WilcoAllLives-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WilcoAllLives-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WilcoAllLives-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WilcoAllLives.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The far better part of America has been shaken to the core by the hatred, rascism and violence exhibited in <strong>Charlottesville<\/strong> last weekend. In its wake, <a href=\"http:\/\/wilcoworld.net\/\"><strong>Wilco<\/strong><\/a> today released the plaintive track <em><strong>All Lives You Say?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0with all proceeds from the song to go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/\"><strong>Southern Poverty Law Center<\/strong><\/a> in the memory of <strong>Jeff Tweedy\u2019s<\/strong> father <strong>Robert L. Tweedy<\/strong>, who passed away earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tweedy<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad was named after a Civil War general, and he voted for Barack Obama twice,\u201d Tweedy says in a statement. \u201cHe used to say \u2018If you know better, you can do better.\u2019 <strong>America \u2014 we know better. We can do better<\/strong>.\u201d Amen.<\/p>\n<p>Listen below and go donate to this good cause at<a href=\"https:\/\/wilcohq.bandcamp.com\/\"><strong> Bandcamp<\/strong><\/a>. Done and done. Peace. Lyrics at bottom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=411455201\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wilcohq.bandcamp.com\/track\/all-lives-you-say\">All Lives, You Say? by Wilco<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All lives, all lives you say<br \/>\nI can see you are afraid<br \/>\nYour skin is so thin<br \/>\nYour heart has escaped<br \/>\nAll lives, all lives you say<\/p>\n<p>You were born at the end of a noose<br \/>\nWhat was up came down with your blues<br \/>\nBut you don&#8217;t know how to sing anything anyway<br \/>\nSo all lives, all lives you say<\/p>\n<p>My mind, my mind is gone<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s too hard for me to know when I&#8217;m wrong<br \/>\nThis is the last dying gasp of a deadly lung<br \/>\nTurning blue on a lawn in the sun&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The far better part of America has been shaken to the core by the hatred, rascism and violence exhibited in Charlottesville last weekend. In its wake, Wilco today released the plaintive track All Lives You Say?\u00a0with all proceeds from the song to go to the Southern Poverty Law Center in the memory of Jeff Tweedy\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27758,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions\/27758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}