Martin O'Malley and 'The Iowa Waltz'

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When Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley rolled into Iowa’s Simpson College on Monday, he brought along an acoustic guitar and played Iowa singer-songwriter Greg Brown’s 1981 ode to his home state, “The Iowa Waltz.” AG has contacted Brown, the husband of country-folk singer Iris DeMent and father of singer-songwriter Pieta Brown, to get his review of O’Malley’s performance, but so far the singer has not responded.

In a story at The Des Moines Register, O’Malley told reporter Grant Rodgers that he’d been working on his version of the Brown song for some time, but wasn’t sure he got the chords exactly right:

“I played it in Decorah, and everybody sang along and I thought, ‘Wow, that was great,'” [O’Malley] said. “I had never tried it there before. Then after, they said, ‘Yeah, Greg Brown plays here all the time.'”

“I’d love to meet [Brown]…I fumbled around with the chords. I hope he’d forgive me.”

It was hardly the first time O’Malley has sang and played an acoustic guitar on the campaign trail. He’s been known to serenade potential voters with covers of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” and Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere” on other stops, and even checked in with Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” on The View. In fact, O’Mally has said folks are now bringing along their own guitars for him to play...


read: http://acousticguitar.com/acoustic-playing-presidential-hopeful-martin-omalley-covers-greg-brown-in-iowa/

watch (O'Malley at Grinnel college Wed.):

related:

Packed house at Iowa's Simpson College for Martin O’Malley
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511064537

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1. Sound???

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2. sound's working for me

...it's usually a mute button somewhere on the computer that's at fault.

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7. Check your own controls.

Sound is working just fine on that video.

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3. update vid in op

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4. K & R. n/t

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5. I love watching that clip

...we have our own 'Woody Guthrie' right in front of us, in this campaign, and my folk-loving side can't resist a warm sing-along.

'I·o·wa!'
'I·o·wa!'
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6. Same here. n/t