Reggie Miles - Wall Street Bailout Blues

This video was captured at Seattle's ACT Theater in the Spring of 2009 as part of my performances for The Moisture Festival, a wonderful vaudeville, comedy and variety show.

My song was featured in a story by Robert Tomsho that made the cover of The Wall Street Journal on February 6th 2009. His article, about songwriters who have taken on the recession, includes the songs of Woody Guthrie, Neil Young, Tom Paxton and others. His story has drawn international attention to my songwriting and performance pursuits. Not bad for a guy that plays on the street with a guitar made out of recycled garage sale junk! Being mentioned in the same article with such contemporaries and heroes was priceless!

This epic tale is nothing short of monumental in scope, the greed of the "haves" versus the need of the "have-nots." It is the definitive story of our life and times, that has brought our world's economic institutions to the brink of collapse. For those on the short end of this stick the buzz words are recession, depression, homelessness and joblessness on an unprecedented global scale.