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<h6>John and Sheila Ludgate - Welcome to Scamland</h6>
John and Sheila Ludgate wrote their new song, “Welcome To Scamland,” “about all the scams that are taking place these days,” John says, “and there seems to be more and more of them. We hear people talking about this all the time, and no one we know has been spared the annoyance (or worse!) of scam/spam phone calls, emails, door-to-door soliciting, online identity theft, and so on - the ubiquitous tentacles of deceit, preying on the unsuspecting...”<br />
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Scams on your phone, on the street, at your door<br />
Everywhere you look there’s more and there’s more<br />
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“And the problem is more than the specific scamming incident itself. All this scamming leads to an erosion of social trust; so much is now viewed suspiciously, and we don’t take things at face value. There’s been a breakdown of the social contract and that’s harming us all.”<br />
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You don’t know what’s real, you don’t trust what you feel<br />
In more ways than one you’ve already been hacked<br />
Scam after scam, they’ve destroyed your faith in your fellow man<br />
Those hijackers voided our social contract<br />
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John and Sheila recorded “Welcome to Scamland” at home around the kitchen table, just like their most recent album (The Kitchen Sessions). As usual, John did the vocal and played acoustic guitar while Sheila played bass and sang harmony. On this recording their good friend, John Harris, played lead guitar and mandolin.<br />
John Ludgate has been playing in clubs and pubs, coffee houses, and music festivals for the past 30 years. He has won numerous awards and Canadian FACTOR grants for his songwriting and has received radio airplay across Canada and the USA. Over the last fifteen years he has been joined by his wife Sheila on bass and harmony vocals. Together they have been performing as a duo across southern Ontario and into Quebec and the USA - playing regularly at many locations for an extended period of time. Audiences enjoy the strong rhythms, harmony vocals, and original songwriting that the duo provides. They have released six studio and two live albums.
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