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- Artist(s): Tom Morello
- Summary: Profits from the eight-track EP of pro-union songs will go to the America Votes Labor Unity Fund.
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- Record Label: New West Records
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock, Political Folk, Protest Songs
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Kerrang!Aug 10, 2011This is a noble and compelling body of music. [Jul 2011, p.51]
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Aug 10, 2011Though his acoustic-playing doesn't emit the intensity of his electric style, the conviction in his voice is where the true vehemency lies, and it makes you wonder what's scarier: Tom Morello challenging you to a guitar duel, or Tom Morello picketing against you?
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Aug 10, 2011Those of centrist or conservative political persuasions may decide this is a socialist document. Let them. For Morello and others, this recording claims songs from organized labor history, which are more relevant now than ever; he includes his own contributions to it as well.
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Aug 10, 2011Though Morello's blunt originals don't leave much room for poetry or subtlety, hearing him perform "Union Song" at the Madison rally invokes a certain rabble-rousing spirit that Billy Bragg surely would recognize.
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