Sunday, April 02, 2006

BILLY BRAGG


ARTIST / BAND: BILLY BRAGG
SONG (MP3): BUSH WAR BLUES
FILE UNDER: Punk / Folk / Communizm
LABEL: Yeproc
INFO: Billy Bragg Adapts Leadbelly's "Bourgeois Blues" with a Modern MessageIn 1938, Leadbelly recorded "Bourgeois Blues" to protest the racism he encountered in Washington, D.C. Seven decades later, England's premiere folk-punk-poet-bard Billy Bragg noticed a few things going on in the U.S. capital that rubbed him the wrong way. On his current sold-out American tour, Billy has been performing his own version of "Bourgeois Blues" with a modern twist. read more from the source...

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