From the recording Keep On!
All songs by Jennifer L. Milligan & Pascal Fouquet SACEM
Jennifer “Lil’ Red” Milligan - Vocals, Washboard, Rhythm Guitar
Pascal “Rooster” Fouquet - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Gitjo
Kenny “Beedyeyes” Smith - Drums
Felton Crews - Bass
Jean-Marc Labbé - Baritone Sax (Tracks 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10)
Billy Branch - vocals & harmonica (Track 3) curtesy of Alligator Records
Jeff Morrow - Vocals (Tracks 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
Caroline Carson Rau - Vocals (Tracks 8, 9, 10)
Sara & Marco Castro - Crowd Vocals (Track 9)
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Producer - Lil’ Red
Co-Producers - Pascal Fouquet & Blaise Barton
Engineer, Mix & Master @ JoyRide Studio - Blaise Barton
Vocal Producer - Jeff Morrow
Assistant Engineer - Jimmy “Bonks” Buonforte
Cover Art - Koldo Barroso
Cover Design - Lil’ Red
Photos -
Sages / Outside Eyes/ Ghost Noters & Art Bumpers
Gleason Bauer, Janetta Davis, Colin John, Deb Landolt, Teri & Rob, Victor Finger
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Lyrics
I was born a bootstrap girl gonna change the world
Born a bootstrap girl on a pretty pedestal
But this bootstrap living wears down my soul
Born a Bootstrap kid, afro hair chocolate skin
He loves his country that only tolerates him
Pulls up on bootstraps made way too thin.
Bootstraps break, oh those bootstraps break
Resentment swarms under a festering soul
Bootstrap living’s impossible.
Born a bootstrap girl, served her country with pride.
Smart as a whip, troubles run-in’ by her side
Sings the bootstrap blues, straps she can’t find.
Bootstraps break, oh those bootstraps break
Resentment swarms under a festering soul
Bootstrap living’s impossible.
Born a bootstrap boy, milky white like me.
Sees the insidiousness in this idiocracy.
Fight bootstrap living in this land of the free.
No more Bootstrap living in this land of the free.