Vic Sadot is a folk singer in the tradition

of Broadside, the National Topical

Song Magazine, and songwriters like

Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger,

Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan.

He has played original rock and blues in

the Crazy Planet band since 1979.

Crazy Planet released a 45 rpm

with Good Time Delaware on the A side

and Born To Win on the B side in 1985.

Crazy Planet released a 12 song LP

called Ride the Wind in 1988.

Vic’s father, Jean-Henri Sadot, was a Free French fighter in the Army Air Corps and Pyrenees mountain Resistance camps in 1940, and then for 5 years with the Free French Navy at sea during WWII. This French heritage led Vic to an interest in Louisiana French songs. In 1992 he formed the Planete Folle band to do Cajun/Zydeco songs, and they released a 16 song CD called Comin’ Home in 1997. In 2005 Vic released a 19 song “Best of 25 years of Vic Sadot Songs” called Broadsides & Retrospectives, which is available at CD Baby:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/vicsadot2

Vic began to learn guitar and to write songs after graduating from the University of Delaware in Political Science and moving to Washington, DC to do social work in DC schools. He got the attention of WGTB, the student run radio station of the University of Georgetown, as well as the legendary producer, author, humorist, and street theater activist, Bob Maslow. Bob Maslow had a nationwide syndication of about 350 radio stations who carried his daily 5 minute radio show called In the Public Interest. Songs about the War in Vietnam and the Watergate Scandal were broadcast locally on WGTB and nationally on In The Public Interest.  In  May of 1973 Vic interviewed  Phil Ochs for  WGTB. Phil Ochs was the best known anti-Vietnam era protest singer after Bob Dylan. But it was Phil Ochs who played for the protest rallies and sang as part of a movement without regard to what that might do to his music career. Phil stayed at Vic's apartment during  his week of concerts at  The Cellar  Door, a prestigious night club in Georgetown.

Vic's best known song is Broadside Balladeer, his tribute Phil Ochs. It was included on the 2005 Acoustic Rainbow Sampler volume #23, which was sent to over 1,400 DJ’s worldwide, and many of them requested the 19 song CD, Broadsides & Retrospectives. Radio Teutoburger Wald, the Old Stringhouse Music Show in Herford, Germany, wrote, "It is a masterpiece of music!” The lead song, Mad Cowboy Disease, skewers the Bush-Cheney neo con war policies with serious humor, and Are You A Citizen or Are You a Slave is an  anthem to struggle done in a strident Cajun waltz style.

The Bush-Cheney administration has inspired Vic to write a bunch of new broadsides. For example, The Nightmare of New Orleans is about the “criminal negligence” of letting the “levees sink in disrepair” and then giving an evacuation order "without providing the means" when "hard winds and high waters" from Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans and other Gulf of Mexico southern states.

Six term Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, now a Green Party Presidential Candidate, discovered Vic’s new songs and had this to say in October of 2007:

Vic Sadot's music produces in me a wide range of reactions from awe to action to tears. Cheney's in the Bunker produces awe because every line of that song is power-packed with information that most people don't know because it was omitted from the 9/11 Commission's report. Ballad of William Rodriguez and Ballad of Pat Tillman give you so much information and make you want to act to find the truth about 9/11 and reach out to Pat Tillman's parents for their tremendous loss and the Pentagon's lies to them about it. Finally, The Kidnapping Coup, about the U.S.-inspired kidnapping of Haiti's President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, brings me to tears. On song after song, Sadot tells us too much of the sad, sad truth. Not only have I found in Vic a new friend who understands my passion for what is right, I've found someone who knows how to artistically communicate the critical issues of our day. I listen to Vic's songs every day, either while listening to them on CD, or while replaying them in my head.

In 2005, Vic interviewed William Rodriguez, the janitor of 20 years in the north tower of the World Trade Center who bacame a rescue hero on 9/11/01. Rodriguez was the guest of honor at the G W Bush White House and he testified before the 9/11 Commission. But when his testimony about explosions in the WTC was omitted along with other significant testimony such as that of Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, Rodriguez became a 9/11 Truth activist. Rodriguez placed Vic's song on his official web site at the bottom of the opening page:

www.william911.com

The Ballad of William Rodriguez was released in 2008 as part of a German 9/11 compilation CD with 17 songs and sound clips called "9/11 Wake Up!" That song is  here  at ezFolk too!

Vic's friend, Dean Banks, produced 7 videos of his songs to post on YouTube. The most popular one has been The Ballad of Pat Tillman about the football star turned Army Ranger turned anti-war soldier who was killed by so-called "friendly fire" while the coroners report revealed that he was shot with 3 bullets to the forehead from 10 yards range. See Vic Sadot at YouTube.

Documentation: Was Tillman Murdered? AP Gets New Documents - Published: July 26, 2007 11:30 PM ET Cononer Report

Editor & Publisher: America’s Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry. See news for July 26, 2007.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com

Vic is currently recording another round of "Broadside Ballads for our Post 9/11 Times" for a new CD. Vic and his brother Rob Sadot will be in the final round of competition in the annual People's Choice Concert at Philly Folk Factory Coffee House in Philadelphiaon June 13, 2008 at 8 pm:

www.folkfactory.org

Wilmington News Journal writer Gary Soulsman once referred to Vic as “the Pete Seeger of Delaware”. Indeed, environmental preservation themes and tributes to local places are celebrated in such titles as White Clay Creek, Our Only Chesapeake, and The Brandywine and The Christina. A perennial children's favorite that has been in Vic’s repertoire for more than 25 years is called The Frog Jog. The band often brings frog costumes for children to wear.

Vic's anti-war Neo Con cartoon song, Mad Cowboy Disease, and Ballad of Pat Tillman are among the 2,600 anti-war songs on Neil Young's "Living With War Today" web site:

www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html

Many of Vic's songs can be purchased at CD Baby.com or here at  ezFolk.

Several of Vic's songs are in rotation at No Lies Radio on the internet and based in San Francisco, California:

www.noliesradio.org

Vic recently estabished an Electronic Booking Kit at Sonicbids.com:

www.sonicbids.com/vicsadot