Sunday Music: "BushWack" by Uri Caine
July 6, 2025·0 comments·zg
There’s a thin line between chaotic nonsense and chaotic substance. There’s a not so thin line between creative exploration and creative activism. Sometimes art, as protest, is too on the nose and it ends up being - temporally trite, and other times it’s personally reflective enough to be timelessly emotive.
Think protest songs for a minute. There’s a big difference between the Op Ed/opinion column singalongs and, say, Hendrix interpreting “The Star Spangled Banner.” Is it just the lyrics? I’m kind of stuck on it, because when the words are left out, the feelings that wash over you - it’s different, right?
I want to tell you about how I arrived at this thought first, but we’re going to land on Uri Caine’s musical protest song, “BushWack” and how in 2004 he gave a number of classics the Hendrix at Woodstock treatment.
Kevin Alexander shares a note every year on the 4th titled, “John Phillip Sousa- ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’: ‘A Republic, if you can keep it.” He adds some new ideas to the margins, but it’s such a great story of the song that I hope you’ll read it.
There are two parts I always appreciate the most though.
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