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 […]
Got an email from Risty Byce, a wheelchair using, rock ‘n’ roll drummer atI didn’t follow popular music, and metal in particular, too closely in the early 90s. This Queensrÿche video was brand new to me when Risty sent me a recommendation. I’m not sure about the overall sentiment, it seems to me to be […]
We have another hero. Hugh Gallagher gave us FDR. The world knew FDR was disabled, but until Gallagher none of us knew that FDR’s disability experience had a profound effect on his life and world view. After polio, FDR began to root for the poor. I know, hero is so overused when it is applied […]
Just last May, in Chicago, the Bodies of Work Festival rocked me. I was there for 8 days to swim in disability culture, see my arty-type friends, and, oh yeah, visit my niece who I hadn’t seen in years. The Festival was a marvel. It was engrossing, confounding, fun, exhausting, inspiring, and ultimately so satisfying. […]
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 […]