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Cairo Fred rocks, of course. It's also fun, smart and entertaining. It's my favorite grab-a-beer-and-boogie band. I hold my lighter aloft in the darkened arena in tribute...

 

Paul Farhi

 

Cairo Fred is awesome. Great musicians, excellent vocals, spot on song choices -- Steely to Stevie to the Once and Future (artist known formerly and latterly as) Prince and some delightful originals along the way. Despite the psycho-trauma of seeing Desson in a kilt, I highly recommend hearing Cairo Fred.

 

Linton Weeks

 

 

Photos from Bandhouse Gigs / Strathmore Tribute to Joni Mitchell

 

More Photos courtesy Diane Rosenthal

 

Tribute to Joni Mitchell, Strathmore Hall, August 14, 2008.
Photo by Bill Bronrott

 

 

Steuart, it was an honor to play with you.
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Steuart Smith (far right) livin’ it up with the Eagles.

 

 

 

The white gloved technicians at the Cairo Fred Music Testing Laboratory just sent a memo to our Central Office advising that we have a previously unreleased gem in the vaults! This is a splendid opportunity for those of you who were unable to attend this summer’s Joni Mitchell Tribute show at the Strathmore Concert Hall (where Eagles guitarist, Steuart Smith performed with Cairo Fred) to get a Cairo Fred fix. So, enjoy this Cairo Fred original, "Freedom Street" (parental advisory: tune includes blistering guitar work from Andris, a delicious chorus that won't quit, AND some biting social commentary and religious imagery from Desson).

 

Freedom Street

 

Freedom Street

Heck / Thomson / Plavnieks

 

Don’t give me your cross to bear

Everyone has got his own

You heave that beam across your back

Take that lonely walk yourself

Life just spat you in the face

Sent you tumbling from this place

Now you’re blind with open eyes

Your soul’s run away to hide

 

Don’t think about the future (there’s nothing more to see)

Don’t think about the past (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Don’t think about the future cause the future

Is on Freedom Street

 

Don’t tell me about the saints

No one ever lived that clean

I’ll bet you Matthew, Mark and James

Knew every whorehouse on the scene

Get a grip upon yourself

Drop your righteousness as well

Take the first cab into town

Take a sniff at what’s around

 

Don’t think about the future…………………….

 

 

 

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