http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM6CuCjUTdk

HI there, I'M COUNTRY CARL welcome to my site. I'm now an unsigned artist (formerly with Nickel Records). I just got back from Beau Robinson Music where I layed down some tracks to a new song called Hobo Up and another called Bridge to Tulsa. Things have really been hectic with all the fuss surrounding the 99ers New Depression Blues Song/Video. If you haven?t seen it then tie on in to http://NewDepressionBlues.com and see the CD cover. I maybe hitting the road again but I don?t want to get ahead of the promotion. Last early summer I was in Nashville and stayed in Brentwood. I did some song shopping then but no real luck panned out. Also I was in Tulsa a few months ago left inspired and wrote this ballad called Bridge to Tulsa. But now the 99ers New Depression Blues has garnered all this attention so I ?m digging in with both hands and feet to handle media and folk feedback. Got to Go, God Bless you all! - Country Carl

PRESS RELEASE New York Times Feb 29, 2012 Schools Try to Match the Jobless With 3.4 Million Jobs

PRESS RELEASE Feb 23, 2012
Congress has passed legislation continuing federal extended unemployment benefits through 2012. President Obama has signed the legislation into law which means that state unemployment websites should have updated information. Current unemployment benefits will remain in place until May. Then the number of weeks of extended unemployment benefits will gradually be reduced to 73 weeks in states with high unemployment and 63 weeks in the other states. As the changes are implemented, weeks will be cut from some of the tiers and there are new requirements for tiers to be available based on state unemployment rates. However, unemployed workers collecting state benefits that will expire between now and the end of the year will be eligible for extended benefits. Unemployed workers collecting extended benefits will be able to move to the next tier based on the new guidelines. More Info @ Unemployment Extension 2012 By Alison Doyle

PRESS RELEASE CBS News 60 minutes Feb 19, 2012 A new jobs program for people trapped in unemployment

PRESS RELEASE Oct 6, 2011 Country Carl artist of the New Depression Blues and Hobo Up plans to hit the rails and travel to Wall Street and join the protest. Country Carl says" the movement is growing and my music is one more message of the pain and hardship Wall Street has inflicted with no moral conscious on 99% of America. Change this time will come from the "people's mic" in the streets as echoed in the "Occupied Wall Street Journal".

PRESS RELEASE March 30, 2011 The Debut of Country Carl's song Hobo Up - Lyrics Writen by Country Carl and Music by Beau Robinson. Country Carl says the Song is the National Anthem for the Homeless and 99ers about to be Homeless. Also a Video is currently in the Works.

Here are the lyrics to Country Carl's Hobo Up:

Kick this town, find the tracks
Start over again and pass the hat
Jump a bus if you have the cash
Or use your truck until it's out of gas

Hobo Up
Take a good friend
Hobo Up
This is not the end
Hobo Up
break a leg
Hobo Up
Open roads are for the brave

New depression blues cross our land
Forget the bills forget the old plan
A new wave lies bgeyond the hills
Change your job build a wind mill

Hobo Up
Take a good friend
Hobo Up
This is not the end
Hobo Up
break a leg
Hobo Up
Open roads are for the brave

Say goodbye to Sally and aunt Sue
Never forget your roots are true
Bring a bible and say your prayers
Your new life begins out younder there

Hobo Up
Take a good friend
Hobo Up
This is not the end
Hobo Up
break a leg
Hobo Up
Open roads are for the brave

Copyright ©2009 CarlV Larson (Country Carl) and Scott A Robinson (Beau Robinson)

2011 The Year Of The HOBO!
Should You Learn The Language?

Today graffiti is prevalent on walls, residences, businesses and the infrastructure in America. A result of gangs slinging communication at each other while leaving the general public puzzled and bewildered. But this isn't the first time that indigenous groups have used code to converse with each other. In the 1930's millions of Hobos developed their own unique system of symbols which could be found on street curbs buildings and crossroads nationwide.

The meanings of the symbols reached the vagabonds riding the rails that arrows and geometric shapes were a communication highway. Will this truly American underground dialect be called back for today's unemployed survival? When millions of unemployed patriots are kicked to the streets to be belittled, starve and disenfranchised, then a peaceful outcome is unpredictable. Add to this how many new HOBOs recently working class believe their situation is their own fault when they know an unregulated Wall Street took them down?

Do we really want our National Guard posted and on stand bys to prevent civil unrest? Is it worth it to the GOP Tea Party millionaires at the tax cut trough, to increase costs in homeland security for all because of their contempt for the unemployed? Will it be worth to us all to leave unemployed extensions in the abyss?

Artist Country Carl dot com of the 99ERS New Depression Blues Video, Hopefully you won't have to HOBO UP! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM6CuCjUTDK

PRESS RELEASE Update Nov 27 2010...YES, a Shopping Cart Becomes Housing Start

Before anyones decides to Hobo UP and Ride the Rails, check out an EDAR, (Everyone Deserves a Roof). I did and I must say this Hobo Condo has everything except power and water. The EDAR, is a four-wheeled, tent-like home that’s designed to be waterproof, sturdy and mobile. Each unit is equipped with a mattress and a sleeping bag for comfort. An integral braking system keeps the unit from rolling away, and a padlock is included to prevent theft. At night, the EDAR unit easily hinges out and down to Night Mode in less than 30 seconds, becoming a sleeping unit. The metal and wood base has a mattress and military-grade canvas cover, providing a robust tent-like shelter. The unit is flame-retardant, waterproof, windproof and helps protect from the elements.

The reengineering of the cardboard box by Eric Lindeman and Jason Zasa was done at Pasadena Art Center College. The concept is the brain child of local philanthropist Peter Samuelson. This also is a big break for supermarkets and customers. I often find all the carts left are catawampus. Since I'm a 99ER and this is winter the EDAR is my new first choice before I HOBO UP on the Rail Highway in summer.

Artist Country Carl dot com of the 99ers New Depression Blues Video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM6CuCjUTdk EDAR Video (Everyone Deserves a Roof) http://cnettv.cnet.com/home-wheels/9742-1_53-50068835.html

PRESS RELEASE Update Nov 13 2010... 99ers New Depression Blues Video....Are You One of 5 million 99ers Getting Ready to HOBO UP with the GOP TEA PARTY HOUSE?

Ask any Hobo about economics and they say a good can opener and a water proof flint box is essential. So look to the GOP TEA PARTY HOUSE to provide these items instead of Tier 5

Will the 99ers in 2011, who make up the next generation pool of 5 million possible HOBOs find their experiences to be much different than Hobos from the 1930's? Yes, first of all, is the fact there are many high tech improvements in the rail infrastructure. The railroads of today are not only more numerous but they are also faster and computerized allowing freight transfer switch backs of individual cars in the yards. This makes predicting a certain freight car's destinations along with an arrival time a hit and miss situation. Therefore the trick is to catch a rail as it heads up a hill out of town and learn car ID tracking.

Today's freight rail systems also have hubs that functions like the hubs for airlines. Today freight rails have fewer open cars and added security. But at the same time today's 99er Hobos are more educated and have a powerful equalizer tool in job travel and climate survival. This advantage is for all future 99er Hobos to keep their cell phones active.

The cell phone is the Survival Connection Tool on the Hobo UP Rail Highway. By sharing information on job relocation, climate updates, possible tent cities, soup kitchens, and even new gear handouts the words of wisdom will spread like the old 49er Gold Rush. Hobo jungles (camp sites) will be known by all 200 miles before entering town. Finally lost reunions with cross country relatives and friends will take place. Like "Jason, your uncle Ned is in town and needs to be picked up in the rail yard for dinner". "Do you remember him"?

Now of course keeping a good battery charge and extra batteries will be paramount. Also old hobos have a wealth of info and can show the ropes to us newly minted 99er hobos.

From Artist 99er Country Carl dot com Singer of the 99ers New Depression Blues - YouTube hopefully you too won’t have to HOBO UP. Feel Free To Link UP To The 99er New Depression Blues Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM6CuCjUTdk

PRESS RELEASE Update Nov 5 2010 - Dejected after the election 99ers like myself are Getting Ready to HOBO UP with the new TEA PARTY, GOP House! We desperately need a new Tier 5 Extended Unemployment Benefits Bill or there will be a Hobo Up Generation for future 99ers and others in the street. During 1934 a million and half Hobos rode the rails and in 2011 we 99ers will need a new Government HOBO Program for 5 millions 99ers out of benefits thanks to the GOP House. The Hobo UP program can teach us to ride the freight rails safely when migrating for work . The House can call the low buck training film with class (1 day) and related laws the HOBO UP ACT. The Bill can have old hobos showing the ropes to us newly minted hobos which should be a bill that finally finds support from the controlling GOP House. Mercy has never been on their agenda. Mitch McConnell was quoted in the national journal "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president". Yes, the GOP Leader Senator from Kentucky has no problem derailing the recovery every way possible in hopes of political gains two years from now.

PRESS RELEASE Country Carl Artist /Advocate comments on CBS 60 minutes recent show. Country Carl says it is "Tier 5 or Hobo Up for the 99ers". We now live in a world with Unemployment Gone MAD and the New Depression Blues, and the CBS 60 minutes show on Oct 24 2010 covered the 99ers running out and should be eye opener for everyone with or without a job! We need now a NEW Tier 5 Extended Unemployment Benefits Bill or it will be a Hobo Up generation for the 99ers and others in the street. During 1934 a million and half Hobos rode the rails according to the department of transportation and in 2011 we will need a new government HOBO program for 5 millions of us 99ers out of benefits so we can learn to ride the freight rails safely when migrating for work . Congress can call the low buck training film class (1 day) and related laws the HOBO UP ACT and have old hobos helping out us newly minted hoboes which should find support from the GOP. Hopefully the S3706 Bill by Senator Debbie Stabenow which seeks to add an additional 20 weeks might find a miracle and pass after the election. Also currently IRS has only a $2400 U/B tax free deduction. WE in addition need the JOBLESS STUB RETRO U/B TAX FREE ACT, a proposal bill that makes all U/B 100% tax free. Thanks again from Country Carl and hopefully you too won't have to HOBO UP.

PRESS RELEASE Oct 7,2010 - The NOVO (no vote in November) by 99ers who need a Tier 5 bill is a cleaver sham rumor movement launched by the GOP and Tea Party schemers. The GOP and the Ultra Conservative Tea Party believe they can demoralize and humiliate the long term unemployment into giving up completely on all hopes for government program assistance. They will attempt any scam that might keep the unemployed beaten down and out of the polls. The force migration by millions of out of work, across the country needs public awareness, scruity and that anyone in the working class could be next on the jobless rolls. Do we need a new nation of beggars on every street corner. Stay tuned for Country Carl's Hobo Up as to what happens next if the Democrats don't get out the vote. For the 5 million 99ers by year end who need a Tier 5 unemployment extension, voting for the Democrats this November is the only party that has not stone walled their aid. Remember the GOP put us in this mess in the first place by placing no regulations on the mortgage industry.

Country Carl Artist/Advocate @ Unemployment Gone MAD

PRESS RELEASE Oct 5,2010 - Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow’s creation and support of Tier 5 through Bill S3706 Americans Want to Work Act seeks to add an additional 20 weeks of benefits is not dead. The bill will return again in the future once the Finance Committee decides how it will be paid for. If the midterm election go badly for the democrates and no tier 5 is passed then it may be time to Hobo Up as depicted in the Country Carl song. The mass migration of millions with nothing left to lose will sadly be the new beginning for Americans everywhere. Like the dust bowlers of the great depression history again will be repeating itself for victims of the new depression blues . The Grapes of Wrath may be upon us.

PRESS RELEASE Sept 29,2010 - A tier 5 unemployment extension bill is finding tough sledding in Congress. Americans benefits are expiring after the mid-term 2010 elections. On November 30, 2010 millions of Americans will find themselves without unemployment benefits on all tiers once again. The 99ers and other running out will find themselves harshly out in the cold this winter. The protest artist Country Carl sings about the 99ers plight and others who are homeless and flat broke in his new song titled "Hobo Up". The song depicts the forced migration of millions across the country looking for work. A You Tube video "Hobo Up" planned launch date is shortly forth coming. There’s little indication that anyone in Washington is thinking about the doomsday deadline until after the election.

PRESS RELEASE Jan 29, 2010 Spokesperson Country Carl says new focus of the Unemployment Gone Mad community is contacting US House Ways & Means members see link below.The Committee on Ways and Means is the oldest committee of the United States Congress, and is the chief tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives.The U.S. Constitution which declares, "All Bills for raising or decreasing Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives." Click here - Committee Members US House Ways & Means

PRESS RELEASE Jan 16, 2010 Position of Unemployment Gone Mad is how about giving the unemployed receiving benefits in 2009 a tax break by taxing the banks so they can pay for it. The Unemployment Gone Mad community of activists and supporters feels that since the banks created this financial crisis in the first place they can finally help out the unemployed they deprived. The new legislative bill proposal is called the "JOBLESS STUB RETRO 2009 U/B TAX FREE ACT" (STUB meaning Stop Taxing Unemployment Benefits). Unemployment Gone Mad wants 100% tax free compensation deduction not just the current $2400.

PRESS RELEASE Dec 12, 2009 A new legislative unemployment advocate bill proposal called " JOBLESS STUB RETRO 2009 U/B TAX FREE ACT " (STUB meaning Stop Taxing Unemployment Benefits) has been kick started by the Unemployment Gone Mad Community and Country Carl has been asked to citizen lobby for Congressional Committee Action.

PRESS RELEASE August 24 2009...Country Carl makes a TV appearance on CNBC's FAST MONEY with SANTELLI'S STREET- CNBC link http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1225355223&play=1

PRESS RELEASE July 7 2009....Country Carl has been recruited by UNEMPLOYMENT-GONE-MAD.com to add video content to their newly launched web site. The web site is an advocate community for additional emergency extended unemployment benefits. The E-action hot-line is expected to add a large numbers of participants as claimants exhaust their unemployment benefit claims.

More info at the “Unemployment-Gone-Mad.com”

PRESS RELEASE April 22 2009.... Country Carl's Guitar WILL BE DONATED AND USED to raise funds $8,500 for the homeless - Ad for guitar is on Seattle Craigs Lists under collectibles and musical instruments.

ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO National Coalition for the Homeless Michael Stoops Executive Director .....Send Funds Directly to the National Coalition for the Homeless Washington D.C. Call them for specific instructions. For close up on guitar see link on site and of course movie short above or more information at this link: More info at the “NewDepressionBlues.com”

MORE ON THE GUITAR....Fresh from the video shoot for the hit music video called New Depression Blues is the original 12-string guitar from the movie shoot, as played by Country Carl offered in 'as-is' condition (a result of the 'girl in the truck' scene). The off-brand 12 string acoustic will be sold with a padded case and a DVD of the New Depression Blues music video starring Country Carl http://www.CountryCarl.com as well as a letter of authenticity notarized and signed by the full cast from the music video shoot in Maple Valley, Washington just last month. This rare opportunity to own the unusual movie prop.

"THANKS AGAIN and my hat goes off to the person or persons stepping up to do this worthwhile deed". Bless your heart - Country Carl

The Music Review.....NEW DEPRESSION BLUES.... Song/Video

If you heard John Rich's protest song "Shutting Detroit Down" get on board the protest song/video NEW DEPRESSION BLUES by Country Carl. The song/video has an authentic man on the street lyrical message that dates this time period so profoundly. More important it keeps the focus where it should be, on the survival of the newly minted unemployed and on our nations homeless in tent cities and on the streets. New Country Carl fan and Music Source Writer....Buck Jackson

You can also contact Country Carl...CountryCarl@live.com

Here are the lyrics to NEW DEPRESSION BLUES:

My jeans are wearin thin
My pockets wearin through
I aint had a paycheck
Since they’ve closed the factory too

I got the new..I got the New Depression Blues
And things aint been this bad here since 1932

The unemployment office,
they pay my salary
but when my checks stopped coming
You know I just can’t live for free
I got the new..I got the New Depression Blues
and things aint been this bad here.since 1932

(Instr.)

Now they bailed out the big banks
And motor city too
They foreclosed on my house
and my trailer rent is overdue
I don’t know how they figure
That a man’s supposed to live
When they’ve taken just bout everything
He could ever give
I got the new.I got the new depression blues
and things aint been this bad heresince 1932

So lets ask President Obama
have some mercy on us too
get this country back in shape
we’ll vote you back in Oh One Two

I got the new..I got the new depression blues
And things aint been this bad here since 1932.

Copyright © 2009 Robinson, Larson (aka Country Carl), Robinson

More info at the “NewDepressionBlues.com”

More info at the “Unemployment-Gone-Mad.com”