Hot Blast: Contemporary Songs

Artista: Maccoll, Ewan

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: FOWY

Catalogo: 8710

Faixas: 1.1 Blast Against Blackguards
1.2 The Tenant Farmer
1.3 The Pay-Up Song
1.4 Emily
1.5 Cut-Price Hero
1.6 You and I
1.7 Legal Illegal
1.8 The Invader
1.9 Father’s Song
1.10 White Wind

Political themes run powerfully through this 1978 recording, written and performed by husband and wife Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) and Peggy Seeger (b. 1935). Songs cover apartheid, domestic abuse, and worker’s rights. MacColl and Seeger point out that writing and singing political songs is an age-old tradition, and they hope that the songs on this album will be useful weapons in the arsenal of those who are “against the brutal exploitation of the working-class, against the senseless waste of human and natural resources and against the pernicious disease of racism.” Liner notes include song lyrics for each of the tracks.