Wikipedia describes this record as: Cripplers is a limited vinyl only 7″ EP by the hardcore punk band This Is Hell. It features cover songs, unreleased songs, and one new song “Infected” later to be featured on their 2008 album Misfortunes. However, this track is an earlier recording and sounds slightly different from the track […]
There’s been a flurry of 1970s and 80s albums from Christian disabled singers. I think it’s part of the weird album cover fad, rather than any particular interest in disability. […]
eBay has gone crazy for disability vinyl LP records. This album, although priceless, was posted with a starting bid of $95.00! Most disability-related posts on eBay don’t go for very much, but for some reason records do. “Little Roy, the Crippled Boy” used to go for $7 or $8, but then one auction hit $45 […]
The Shriners Hospitals have done much good work, but Swingin’ for Crippled Children? […]
Next Wednesday, November 14, at the newly christened and leadered Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability. I’ll be presenting Disability Rocks!, A musical journey through disability and popular music. Disabled songs, singers, and songwriters including everyone from Gene Vincent, and Marilyn Manson, to Nick Jonas, will have their moment in the disability culture spotlight. Join […]
Here’s a shift. Rather than a death metal band using rude disability imagery, e.g. Cannibal Corpse doing “Rancid Amputation,” here’s an experimental band named An Autumn for Crippled Children.You can find them on the newly resurrected MySpace. […]
New Disability CDMost of us know Robert David Hall as the crutch-using coroner on CSI. He’s now joined the rare ranks of disabled singers and songwriters who write and record music about disability, . At least, that’s how I’m going to categorize his CD in my Disability: Songs, Singers, & Songwriters database. The songs are […]
The first outsider artist I remember was Wild Man Fischer. Back in the heyday of Warner Bros records, the late 60s, Frank Zappa recorded Wild Man Fischer. Fischer had been discovered singing on the streets for 10 cents a song. I heard his recording, “Songs for Sale,” on one of the great Warner Bros/Reprise sampler […]
Where the Hits Keep ComingSometimes songwriters get disability just right. It’s not often. For every non-stereotypical, realistic portrayal of disability there’s two dozen country weepers or maudlin overcoming narratives. Today, I was listening to my favorite radio station, KALX. It’s UC Berkeley’s award winning font of everything hip and groovy. Majority Whip, all the DJs […]
Where the Hits Keep ComingInadvertently, an email of mine asking for disability researchers investigating how popular music sheds light on disability politics, identity, history, multiculturalism, or sociology was posted on a listserv. I got a few potential leads and interesting responses. One was from someone at a Welsh independent living center who is an underground/metal/experimental […]