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Songs of Resistance 1942-2018
(Anti-Records)
★★★★★
MADE up of original compositions and traditional songs, this remarkable album from veteran New York City guitarist Marc Ribot is a forceful reaction to the election of President Donald Trump.
Unpolished, musically varied and often angry, it’s like a lost soundtrack to Howard Zinn’s seminal book A People’s History of the United States.
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