Have a soft spot in my musical heart for Billy Bragg...
“Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg” (Billy Bragg)
Yep Roc Records > NewsIn 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.
Being a man of action, Billy ducked into Big Sky Recordings in Ann Arbor, Mich., on March 22 and laid down “Bush War Blues,” with lyrics adapted to express his condemnation of the war in Iraq. His voice husky from his hefty touring schedule, Billy originally attributed the song to a newly-created alter ego, Johnny Clash.
Yep Roc Records is very happy to make the song available free to Billy's fans, just a few days after it was recorded.
MP3 here (or here)
(via BoingBoing)
