If I was a Blackbird

 

 If I was a Blackbird

Yes indeed.

 

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Naturally, for the times we're living in, a good few peace songs fade in and our. Leads with some gorgeous laments from Scottish singer Jean Redpath, Barry Dransfield and the title song by Silly Wizard  Trademark socially conscious lyrics from the great Christy Moore, including the wonderfully heartfelt The Least We Can Do. Seth Lakeman blazes through a number of powerful tunes from his Poor Man's Heaven and new The Granite Way LPs. As soon as I first hear him he brought progressive rock bands like Rush to mind. Folky instrumentation & subject material enthused with rock production values and vocals; contemporary folk rock at its most fiery & edgy! Karine Polwart sets the pace with a few of her older recordings from 2006-07. Soaring voice, flowing music. This mixtape wouldn't be complete without a few knockout Steve Knightley solo acoustic recordings. Dick Gaughan comes with a powerful, cutting condemnation of political apathy and worse - Whatever Happened? Its followed by an ode to Che Guevara Hasta Siempre by Nathalie Cardone. Two cool tracks by outlaw Johnny Cash taken from the 1971 I Walk the Line movie soundtrack: Both Sides of the Law & Face of Despair. Ever the rebel to the end... Rousing solo songs from Andy Stewart of Silly Wizard. The sensational & uncompromising Jesse Welles never misses the target. Four more lyrically explosive handgrenades taken from his recent Middle, Hell's Welles & Patchwork albums. Iris DeMent asks why there's A Wall in Washington. 2 classic peace songs by Fairport Convention and 2 killers by the Oysterband, including the haunting studio cut of Molly Bond. Husband-wife duo Candie & Guy Carawan sing for universal human rights while Joan Baez sings a Spanish song For All the Weary Mothers of the Earth. Dolores Keane, Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs recall the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the lessons taken from that bitter fight against fascism.

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