"Fall On Your Sword, Mr. Fauci" -- a song by Jude Roberts
(by Tom K — Jon Rappoport’s tech producer)
For the studio-version of the song — with accompanying video — click here.
For the live-performance version of the song — click here.
Donations Welcome:
To make a donation, go here to help out the creative team who put this project together. You’ll be able to download the song after donating.
About singer/song writer Jude Roberts:
Jude’s sound is influenced by English, Irish and Appalachian folk music, with touches of baroque and Romantic-era classical pieces and European folk/pop. A unique amalgam of style and talent, Jude Roberts draws the listener inward and invites them to dive deep.
How this song got recorded:
Celia Farber — the Producer behind this project — tells the story…
A songwriter named Jude Roberts in NY’s Hudson Valley wrote a song.
That’s how this all began.
The song got recorded (details to follow) and Greg Reese came on board, playing a savior role, just after Thanksgiving.
Dlux Nation — Jamie Dlux — was involved at an early stage. It was many minds coming together—
I was having a reverie that I could be a “producer,” and provide structure, enthusiasm, and raison d’être of a sort.
And I did.
There is a “medical freedom” movement is NY’s Hudson Valley, where as you know Tom Cowan relocated a few years ago. But that’s not why there is such a movement there.
It just adds extra kindling to it. (I’m not in NY State as I write this.)
My sister Bibi’s house in Kerhonkson was the gathering place where things happened and got generated into being. Bibi is all about music, songs, songwriting, and gatherings. And I was once a musician (drummer) but then I became somebody whose only medium of communication was the written word. And the written word began to fail me, by 2022.
It was at one of Bibi’s gatherings that our good friend Rob Norris, who, of all of us, is the central creative super-conduit of what others have done, written, said, played—he has enough interior bandwidth to always let the tribe know when we have to hear something.
Rob was (since the beginning) and still is, the bass player, co-songwriter, and back up vocalist for The Bongos. (In this video, wearing black shirt with white stripes. )
So one night in the early autumn Rob said we had to hear Jude’s new song.
It was called “Fall On Your Sword, Mr. Fauci.”
It was a song that didn’t want to just be a song and stay where it was. It wanted to turn into something. We heard the song, then later I recorded it on my iPhone, and I published it here.
You may recall an earlier posting, “A Song By New Friends,” featuring “If You Could Hear Me Now,” by The Mammals (Mike Merenda and Ruth Ungar), here. Everybody loved that song. (see comments) THE MAMMALS music and (amazing history) here.
One month ago, give or take, Mike set up the recording session at his studio, and two exceptional musicians were there. (Everybody who wishes to be named is being named.)
We got it done.
Mike Merenda was both engineer, musical producer, and snare drummer extraordinaire for Jude’s Fauci song, and his wife Ruth Ungar arranged and sang harmonies.
We are aiming to make back the recording costs by purchases of the song at Jude’s site here.
Recording Credits:
Jude Roberts: music, lyrics, lead vocal, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Celia Farber: Bass drum, triangle
Rob Norris:
Cowbell Mike Merenda: Snare drum, violin
Ruth Merenda: Harmony vocals
Secret Weapon #1: electric bass
Secret Weapon #2: keyboards, harmony vocals
Recorded and mixed by Mike Merenda at Humble Abode Music
Music Video Credits:
Production Credits:
A Celia Farber/ Truth Barrier Production