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Mike West is an artist worthy of your attention.

BIO from his web site

Mike West rips on a banjo and sings songs that hit close, sometimes too close, to home. His eighth CD, “New South”(Binky/Squirrel Records), takes a tour through the new Confederacy. Roaring up from the Gulf coast to the Ozark mountains in a truck with no muffler, West tells stories against a backdrop of busted refrigerators and stripped down muscle cars. With a quick wit and fast fingers, he rolls together humor, politics, love, loss and foot stomping music.

Mike sings his own songs. Writes them himself, too. Can you imagine?
Here’s “I’m So Bored with Capitol Hill”

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If you’ve been paying even occasional attention to the plight of our friend on the Right – you will have noticed he’s finding it very difficult to find full employment in this, the strongest economy America has ever known. Fortunately for all involved – the ‘Iowa Voice’ appears to be flush with all the necessary talents to pick himself up by his own bootstraps and perhaps turn what was once only a hobby – into a full-time career.

Thanks to the significant sleuthing talents of a fellow Iowa Undergrounder, who will remain on double-super-secret background throughout the duration of this affair – it has been revealed that the ‘Iowa Voice’ is also a….wait for it….wait….. Frank Sinatra Tribute Singer! – please don’t call him an impersonator. He doesn’t like that.

The good news is that we can all band together and help this unemployed Republican out by booking his act! He does have a few conditions, however – so please read them closely. He’s a man of business as well as an artist, and demands to be taken seriously dammit.

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