…but in a fairly subtle way. There aren’t enough artists nailing their colours in this way in my view. The song maybe doesn’t have the righteous anger of Streets of Minneapolis, but Rodney Crowell is in fine voice, and it’s great to see Emmylou Harris duetting. The song first surfaced a year ago apparently, but Crowell has now reissued it in the light of recent events. YouTube link in comments.
Rodney sticks it to Trump…
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Rodney’s song is a beauty and is actually improved by not being angry and shouty.
A hymn of hope.
An excellent find @Boneshker-
This is a little less subtle. Written in 2017 by Tim Heidecker.
That’s terrific. It reminds me of John Fogerty’s ‘Weeping in the Promised Land’ released during the pandemic which is another example of a veteran American artist expressing his disgust at Trump as much in sorrow as in anger.
Whilst we are looking to out-trump the various songs about Don, this one, from last year, was unsubtly on the nail. By veteran folkie devotional singer, Eliza Gilkyson.
And this from 9 years ago courtesy of Aimee Mann. Just as relevant, if not more so, 9 years later.
Back in 1919, William Butler Yeats had an uncanny ability to predict the times we live in
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
Mike Scott and the Waterboys do a great job with it-
Pete Gabriel would be jealous of that mask.