Beggar's Bullets
2005 · May 4 Task Force CD-KSU-05-01 · Kent, Ohio
- Artist
- Chris Butler
- Title
- Beggar's Bullets
- Release
- The Kent State May 4 CD Project
- Year
- 2005
- Label
- May 4 Task Force # CD-KSU-05-01
- Format
- CD · Compilation
- Language
- English
- Country
- Kent, Ohio, USA
- Songwriter
- Chris Butler
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Spoken Word
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Kent / Jackson State Songs
Chris Butler, former lead singer and guitarist of the 1980s New Wave band The Waitresses, lived in Kent, Ohio, in the 1960s and 1970s. This album of spoken-word recordings and songs centred on that theme, capturing daily life in the college town. The final song "Beggar's Bullets" (Future Fossil) focused on a group who students who went on a road trip to Cleveland to attend a Grateful Dead concert. After returning to Kent, the narrator sold his guitar, and then his drums to Jeffrey Miller, who "didn't get to play them much" because three weeks later "he was shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard".123 Sources1futurefossilmusic.com↩2CMJ New Music Report, 21 January 2002↩3somecamerunning.typepad.com: Chris butler easy life↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
First issued on The Kent State May 4 CD Project (May 4 Task Force CD-KSU-05-01, 2005), disc 1 track 9, 12:08; later the final track of Chris Butler's Easy Life (Future Fossil Records DIG5-CD/FF, CD, 2014 per Discogs; RYM dates the album 2001).
About the artist
Chris Butler, songwriter and guitarist of the 1980s new wave band The Waitresses, lived in Kent, Ohio, in the 1960s and 1970s. [Rate Your Music]