Steve Earle: The Revolution Starts Now
Copy at Case Memorial Library
DHinMI wrote in Daily Kos: "Earle's gift for stories, his Blakean revolutionary vision and hostility to authority and convention, his radical politics rooted in American tradition — more Eugene V. Debs and Wobbly than Karl Marx — and his gift of empathy are all in evidence on his 2004 album The Revolution Starts...NOW! … Home to Houston is a raucous truck driving song about a guy who came to Iraq for the money, but with a Bradley on his back door and an RPG whizzing by his window, prays to the Lord to just get him home alive. In Rich Man's War, Jimmy joins the Army because the jobs have all gone to Mexico. That's a story we aren't surprised to hear. But Jimmy's story is just the American version of Ali's, the other side of the story we don't typically hear. … Warrior is a poem recited in the idiom of the King James translation of the Bible. And The Gringo's Tale is told by a former soldier who throws in with the CIA, does dirty work through Latin America, but when he starts to think critically and ask the wrong (right) questions, becomes a marked man living out his life in the shadows" (2/17/08).
DHinMI wrote in Daily Kos: "Earle's gift for stories, his Blakean revolutionary vision and hostility to authority and convention, his radical politics rooted in American tradition — more Eugene V. Debs and Wobbly than Karl Marx — and his gift of empathy are all in evidence on his 2004 album The Revolution Starts...NOW! … Home to Houston is a raucous truck driving song about a guy who came to Iraq for the money, but with a Bradley on his back door and an RPG whizzing by his window, prays to the Lord to just get him home alive. In Rich Man's War, Jimmy joins the Army because the jobs have all gone to Mexico. That's a story we aren't surprised to hear. But Jimmy's story is just the American version of Ali's, the other side of the story we don't typically hear. … Warrior is a poem recited in the idiom of the King James translation of the Bible. And The Gringo's Tale is told by a former soldier who throws in with the CIA, does dirty work through Latin America, but when he starts to think critically and ask the wrong (right) questions, becomes a marked man living out his life in the shadows" (2/17/08).
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