james manganello
Los Gatos, California, United States
Music
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Discography
two cd's
"all the hearts are breaking down" released in 2005, featuring the title cut, which has remained on the neil young website, "living with war", rising as high as number 83 on the list of over 1800 songs.
their brand new cd " ghost train", which was just released in october on 2007. it features the rockabilly "i'll be home by midnight", the haunting title cut, and the angry and mournful tribute to the victims of hurricane katrina, called " the banks of the ponchartrain".
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Bio
workhouse poets have been together in one form or another for the last thirty years. they reside in los gatos and hollister, ca, the heart of steinbeck country. they perform all original songs, written by james manganello and larry elrod. their music is driven by soulful harmonies, in the spirit of "the band", gram parsons, and many others. they started out performing covers of their favorite singers and storytellers such as bob dylan, woody guthrie, hank williams, john prine, bruce springsteen, gram parsons. the songs tell the sometimes sad tales of working class existence in the heartland of this country. stories of hoboes, waitresses, houswives trapped in sometimes dead end small town life. the songs oftentimes have an angry political undertone, as one travels with the workhouse poets through this landscape filled with the unprotected, underrepresented, and disillusioned.
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