Daniel Kahn tells this story with cogency, frankness and wit -- through song.
But the thing you hate in others is the thing you hate in you.
Where it all went wrong nobody knew
Now exile will return like deja vu
and we will have to learn it all anew...
- The Jew in You (YouTube) - which is actually an excerpt from a theatrical performance rather than a straight-up "songwriter song." So it's in the voice of a particular character with a particular POV. Still, a haunting assessment of what it means to be uprooted and to uproot.
- The Good Old Bad Old Days - a complex, confounding, elegaic piece of work that pulls at so many assumptions at one.
- Inner Emigration - where this tune starts and where it ends, who knows, it's as tangled as a family tree and as mesmerizing as an ancestor's tale.
- Daniel Kahn on Spotify
- Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird on Spotify
