Pulitzer winner M.L. Eltrick is a singer-songwriter. Who knew?
While awaiting a federal jury verdict in the city hall corruption case, Fox 2's investigatoive reporter gets creative with a musical summary of alleged misdeed by Kwame Kilpatrick, his dad Bernard and his pal Bobby Ferguson.
He calls it "Metropolitan Rip-Off Blues." A sampling:
M.L. Elrick sings "Metropolitan Rip-Off Blues"Hands out, illegal acts
Bobby had the contacts
Turned them into contracts
But we should hedge,
It's all just alleged.
Elrick performs his clever ditty in bluesman sunglasses on a windy Grand Circus Park corner, flipping old-school flash cards in the style of Bob Dylan singing "Subterranean Homesick Blues," a 1965 classic. His karaoke-style sendup includes a few not-too-shabby tries at sounding like Dylan with nasal, drawn-out syllables.
His riff comes in at just over three minutes -- an ideal length for radio airplay. See and hear the full schtick at the link below.
-- A.S.
