Been listening to this No Direction Home album, the soundtrack to that big documentary about Bob Dylan from last year.
Been thinking how we could use a few more musicians like him about now. People who can make sense of all the wars, rumors of wars, hurricanes, big brother spying, graft, corruption and more.
Or at least give us a great soundtrack to listen to while it all collapses down around us.
Gotta give props to Michael Franti. He's got the clear vision, the clever lyrics and the anger -- definitely the anger, just not the widespread popularity. Sometimes I think he's fighting the revolution all by himself. The only time I heard his music outside of my own CD player was on a couple episodes of The Wire. I would tend to be of the opinion that the fan base for The Wire and the fan base for Michael Franti probably overlap quite a bit already.
Never would have even heard of him if it weren't for the misfit radicals of Free Radio Asheville, wherever they are.
From Bob Dylan to Michael Franti. How did I get that?
Anyone out there have other artists who could pump up the volume for the revolution or, alternately, the fall of civilization as we know it?
As you might have guessed, yes, K is out of town again.
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