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DOWNLOAD SAMPLES
 Drive-By
Diplomacy Blues
(mp3~4.6mb)
Woman
/ Ladder = You'll Get What You Deserve
(mp3~3.7mb)
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MAC=control click, Save As
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ETHAN DANIEL DAVIDSON
Better Living Through
Creative Selling
Timesbeach -CD, 2004
Available: Now, Buy
Here.
ETHAN DANIEL DAVIDSON
Don Quixote De Suburbia
Timesbeach -CD, 2003
Available: Now, Buy
Here.
ETHAN DANIEL DAVIDSON
This Machine Kills
Fascists
Self-Released CD, 2002
Available: Now, Buy
Here.
ETHAN DANIEL DAVIDSON
Ring Them Bells
Self-Released CD, 2000
Available: Now, Buy
Here.
ETHAN DANIEL DAVIDSON
Bootleg Series Vol.1
Self-Released CD
Available: Now, Buy
Here.
ETHAN DANIEL DAVIDSON
Alaska 11 North
Self-Released CD, 1999
Available: Now, Buy
Here.
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MEMBERS:
Ethan
Davidson +
guest musicians
HOMETOWN:
Detroit
CURRENT HOME:
Detroit
/ Wiseman, AK
DATE OF EVOLUTION:
2000
WEBSITE:
ethandanieldavidson.com
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The Ethan Daniel Davidson
Five
Free the Ethan Daniel Davidson Five
Ethan Daniel Davidson-
guitar, lead vocals, Winnebago driver
Charles
Huges - ivory (plastic) tickler
Jason
Charboneau - guitar maestro
Paul
Lamb - one who stands looking pretty (and
plays bass)
Glynn
Scanlan - skin banger
"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched.
You got
to ride it like you find it."
– Woody Guthrie
Ethan Daniel Davidson has certainly ridden his
life like he found it... Ethan was born in a commune
in Lansing, MI to members of MC5's White Panther
Party, and was then adopted by a wealthy Republican
family. But, as Ethan himself so eloquently put
it, "You can take the boy out away from the
anarchists, but you can't take the anarchist out
of the boy," so as soon as he could, he toured
the nation and the world gathering fans and handing
out almost fifty thousand free CDs.
On Free the Ethan Daniel Davidson Five,
Ethan nimbly jumps from genre to genre, mood to
mood, tone to tone. The one common thread through
Ethan's music, though, is politics. Whether it's
the politics of a country, a people, or just the
politics of a relationship (like in "I Can't
Drink You Pretty"), the songs go right to
the point. Subtlety is not an option. Even the
album's one cover song, "Your Flag Decal"
by John Prine, attacks the American status quo.
Ethan uses his songwriting in a sometimes sarcastic
and satirical manner, but it never takes a self-righteous
tone. In the sense that he is incredulous of legal
and social injustice, Ethan’s lyrics are
almost reminiscent of Lenny Bruce: "Go down,
Moses, and set me free/ Five dollar bill to go
down on me/ On the sixth day let there be skin/
Forgive you, father, for creating sin." Sure,
it can get offensive, but since when is bluntly
stating your position a popular thing to do? That's
how the world gets changed.
The better part of Ethan's life is spent traveling
with guitar in tow; he is a troubadour, traveling
the world by car and by boat, from Detroit to
Colorado to Alaska (where he makes a home in a
tiny village) to Israel to Europe. He meets wonderful
people with remarkable stories and translates
them into song, then goes back out again to sing
those songs. Settling down is not in Ethan's vocabulary.
To quote the man himself again, "Someday,
I'll just up and walk across the country, and
then back, and just keep going for a few years
I suppose, and see what I see."
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