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"MAKE NO MISTAKE, MIKE FELTEN IS THE REAL DEAL" -Illinois Entertainer January 2008
September 2008
- "I come to you
in troubled times." Utah Phillips used to say that. It seems like the times were always troubled, but now they seem especially
hard. Traveling around it isn't hard to spot the foreclosure signs, the empty storefronts and the folks all hanging around
looking for a break to come rolling down the street. There is no place for me in this world except with a guitar in my hand -it is my shovel and my plow-
singing my songs for you. We aren't alone in this. I can see by your eyes you think you're beaten and you might see
a little quit in my eyes too, but we can pool our strengths and beat this. Give me an hour or two of your time to replenish
each other's faith. I'll hustle the gas money to get there. Hope you can buy a CD or a t-shirt to help me down the
road. As always, thanks. After Lemars, my mom got sick. A blocked bile duct and a mass inside that they don't know
quite what it is. It's been a month in the hospital and she is getting her strength back again. She's yodeling a bit,
but not back to singing yet. It is her lifeblood as it is mine. In the darkest hours when her life was in the balance, I told
her to try and breath in rhythm and she did. The prognosis is never good when you are 85. Again, we'll make it through.
Life just took a left turn on us.
August
2008 - After five months we are closing down our Tuesday night series at the Horseshoe in Chicago. 8/19 is our last
night with Kelly Steward and Judge Fletcher. Looking
forward to our week in Lemars, Iowa at the National Old Time Country and Bluegrass Festival. Trying to work out a trip to
New York City in November. If any of you think that you may come out and see me let me know. I have no idea what my draw would
be in New York. I just have to rely on what you tell me. If there is no interest, I'll try and book Christmas,Michigan
again. Let me know. "No one wants new music by ANYBODY over forty." - Bob Lefsetz (he
was talking about Sheryl Crowe but Mike's hair isn't half as nice).
July 2008 We extended our run at the Horseshoe through August at least. We will make it five months
and then go from there. Lots of new stuff forthcoming and hoping to afford to get into the studio soon. LOTS OF
NEW PIX on the pix page! June 2008
Lots of gigs and the Utah Phillips Memorial LIVE
FROM THE HEARTLAND RADIO
Every Saturday Morning 9-10 am CST, broadcast live from the stage at the Heartland Café
in Chicago. Be a part of the live listening audience, tune into WLUW 88.7 fm, or listen on the web at www.wluw.org Michael
James hosts this week's edition of Live from the Heartland Radio. This weeks guests include Mike Felten talking about
Utah Phillips and Saturday night's tribute to the late re-knowned folk singer. Jim Ginderske will fill us in on questions
and challenges to a new proposal by the Friends of the Park to fill in the lake front to create a bike "path" from
Hollywood Beach to Evanston. Bill Paige will get us ready for next week's Artist on the Wall Festival in Loyola Park.
And we will be joined by Vera Newman and Barbara Cranmer of the 'Namgis First Nation of Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada.
They will share stories about their people and their connection to Chicago (the totem poles at Addison, Lincoln Park, and
the Field Museum). They will bring their drum, and sing their entrance song letting us know they have arrived!
May 2008 A daily dose of Mike. Click
on the Writing/Daily Blog tab on your left. I know that you can't be without me for a day. So I'm going to give it
a go.
APRIL 2008
MIKE NEWS! Well the price of gas is keeping at lot of musicians closer to home and Mike is no
exception. Tuesday's (dates in our calendar on the MIKE LIVE! page) you can find him hosting "For The Sake of the
Song" at the Horseshoe Saloon 4111 N. Lincoln Avenue. Lots of quality guests (and we are looking for more, contact me
with your info) and cheap vintage Pabst Blue Ribbon. In thirty years Mike's career has taken him from Orphans to Lillys
to the Horseshoe - a total of about two miles up Lincoln Avenue That's progress.
Landfill (2003)- Abortion
In Chinatown,Life Goes To Hell,Sister,Save Her Old Man,Margie Got A Boyfriend,You Could've Had This,Finntown Hearse,Talkin'
66 Summer School Blues, Kevin Is Absent Today, Stomp On The Terra,Landfill
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Tossin' It Away(2007)- Cold
Wind On The Mountain,Ghost In The House,Tossin' It Away,Red Shirt,Road & Rye,Paul Powell,We Ain't Goin' Away,Cold
Hard Morning,Trail of Tears,Liars And Thieves, Hockey Games in French,Take A Walk With Jesus, Solidarity Forever
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"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
- Abbie Hoffman.
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later;
in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."-Bukowski
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell
"In a mass marketing culture, a revolutionary song is any song that you choose to sing yourself." - Utah Phillips
When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail
out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs, On the bottom of one page appeared the following:"This
song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without
our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it.
Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
"Woody would have loved what you are doing..." - Bob Everhart
"Freedom is what prohibition ain't" - Merle Haggard
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows" -Martin Luther King
"Mike Felten owns a record store somewhere in middle America. He also has something most folks have long since given
up on - a conscience." BIG O MAGAZINE - SINGAPORE
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