Folk singer-songwriter and Blue Hill resident Noel Paul Stookey is a living legend. Not only as a third of the hallowed folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary but also as a longtime solo artist with a lengthy discography.
Stookey, 84, has a new album called “Fazz: Now & Then,” and it’s available now on noelpaulstookey.com and everywhere else on March 22.
On Feb. 15, Stookey released the lyric video for the song “Fun Police” from the “Fazz” album. In the YouTube notes, he describes the song as a way to stave off those who might view kindness and compassion as weaknesses. In a world full of cynics, Stookey serves as an ambassador of goodwill in a song that’s bouncy, playful, hopeful and indeed quite fun.
With a tongue-in-cheek, almost theatrical tone, and at one point laughing voraciously, Stookey sings lines like, “We are the fun police/Do you have a license for that smile?/What makes you thing you have the right to bring that light into this darkness?”
Here’s “Fun Police:”
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