I don't write religious songs. I don't write religious songs because they're boring to those not of the faith. I don't write songs on current events. They got no shelf life, such songs.

But cross a religious song with a current events song, and you got a political song. Them I also try to avoid if I can, for the same reasons listed above. However, there may be some wiggle room in political songs IF they're written carefully, I think. That is, if they're written from a human viewpoint and not an organizational one.

For instance, Woody Guthrie was fairly good at writing very human political songs. Ani DiFranco is often very good at it, too. I wouldn't know who's bad at it. Those kind of songs wouldn't hold my attention long enough to find out who wrote them up.

To properly write a political song, I think you have to step in the shoes of the side you're against (there's always sides with politics), and march with 'em a bit. To just pick up every rotten tomato or egg you can find and fling it at your opponent is the worst kind of writing done.

Ideally, when you hear a political song, you shouldn't be sure which side of the fence it's coming down on. Let there be some doubt. And with that in mind, I'm ridiculously proud of "Liberal Blues." I've never heard anybody complain about it for slamming their side. Never heard anybody cheer it for supporting their side. (Of course, it's highly possible BOTH sides are tuning it out from annoyance...)

"Liberal Blues" was written at the height of the first Bush Administration, which was a very blue period for them on the Left. The lyrics are pretty much a catalog of the lamentations I heard at the time, but with the names left off. (Luckily, that. I mean, what Rhymes with "Cheney?")

Good beat. Nice guitar figures, I think. Chords piled up in big slabs here and there. My only regret is it's not a blues composition. And that's a very small regret for me.