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Essential Personnel

by George Barber

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I work down at the Market Basket The one by Route 11 Chevrolet And I’ll be here bagging your groceries Instead of walking ‘cross a graduation stage Never looked me in the eye when I was socking the shelves But now I’m essential personnel Got a girlfriend who’s a nurse down in the city Working hard right on the front lines When you found out her family’s from Oaxaca Turned out you then you weren’t no friend of mine And she’s got family in an ICE detention cell But she’s been deemed essential personnel I got a brother doing time in the state penn Possession with intent to sell They busted his dumb ass with a duffle bag of grass And they threw him right in a prison cell Now he’s got a cellmate who’s not doing so well But they’re not essential personnel My daddy drives a truck for Tyson Chicken All along the Eastern Seaboard They never called him a hero When he came back from the Vietnam War They spit in his face and they damned him to Hell But now he’s essential personnel Well they can’t get the Congress in session They’ve deemed it unsafe to meet Seems that it’s not on the agenda To help folks like us get back on their feet But kindness is a line that they’d never stoop so low to sell Seems to me their not essential personnel

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For the month of October all proceeds from downloads of this song will be donated to the Industrial Worker Contributors Fund whose goal is the preservation of the rights of essential workers and free independent journalism across the globe.

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released October 1, 2020

Recorded at the Black Lodge
Engineered and Mixed by Andrew Johnson
Produced by the Bookhouse Boys

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George Barber

Composed of a rogues gallery of New England talent, Caliche pulls from influences as varied and vibrant as the band themselves. From Talk Talk to Tom Waits, the Blasters to the Bad Seeds, Steve Earle to Sonic Youth, and back again, Caliche’s sound challenges conventional ideas of Americana by infusing elements of indie, folk, art rock, and proto punk. ... more

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