Talkshow Talking Blues

is a rolling, Woody Guthrie-style musical segment with words in the Bavarian dialect. Television madness as a worldwide phenomenon...

Stefan Liedtke, a founding member of Wuide Wachl, who organizes this Nuclear-Free Future Award musical venture and also supports the Winnemem Wintu tribe (Northern California) in their struggle for cultural self-determination, would like to use thiks opportunity to cite the following text written by Nomtipom Wintu artist Frank LaPena (page 48-49 in: News From Native California vol. 19, nr. 1, Fall 2005):

"Our world is recycling itself into oblivion from the poisons of convenient luxury. Material wealth has cut loose toxins that are returning to earth in our water, and soil, and these toxins are cumulating in our bodies.

"In the old days, just two or three generations back, there was more visiting and helping; there was an involvement in the "real" world. Nowadays people speak of television characters as real. They are more concerned about those lives in the television world than their own neighbors or family members.

"We are urged to buy more electronic gadgets while the brown-outs and black-outs remind us that we are having difficulty meeting our present demands for electricity.

"When the ghosts (spirits) come, it will be a reminder that we haven't acted wisely; by then the water will be sparse and the poisons will be billowing clouds that move like a giant snake out of the valleys into the foothills and mountain canyons. I am fascinated by our weather reports that use radar to "see" how pollution is causing "no-drive days" and "critical breathing days;" it is the elders' vision of the invisible becoming visible."

Coming Soon on Volume 2

Afghanistan (live) (2:50)
Previously unreleased; recorded live Munich August 2, 2003
at the Theatron, Olympiapark Munich
Music and lyrics: C.-L. Reichert
Musicians: Carl-Ludwig Reichert (vocals, guitar), Stefan Liedtke (guitar), Ulli Bassenge (bass), plus guests Judy Seutter (guitar), "San2" (harmonica)