Billy Bragg: I'm with you all the way Bernie

[Cheese Sandwich]

?@billybragg
@SenSanders I'm with you all the way Bernie

https://twitter.com/billybragg/status/650403814630162432

[sabrina 1]

1. Bernie's momentum continues! He is the getting so many endorsements from

some of the best people.

Thanks Billy! Talented AND smart!

[LWolf]

2. More good news.

[one_voice]

3. I've never heard of him...

I will google & youtube him. Or could be I've heard his music but never knew his name.

[artislife]

6. Here you go

Billy Bragg is a musician and political activist best known for his folk rock music and making several hit albums in Britain.

http://www.biography.com/people/billy-bragg-9223748

Virgin re-released Life's a Riot With Spy Vs. Spy in 1983 and followed with a new record, Brewing Up With Billy Bragg, in 1984. The latter album contained a host of political songs, establishing the style that would come to be the singer's bread and butter over the next three decades. Bragg had first become convinced that politically charged music could change the world at Rock Against Racism, a 1978 music festival headlined by The Clash. Ever since, activism has been a crucial part of his creative repertoire. Bragg's political views lean strongly to the left and he has committed himself to advocating worker solidarity and a broader socialist platform.

[one_voice]

22. Thanks! I like political...

musicians. I see someone posted a video I will watch that too.

[druidity33]

25. My favorite album by him

is "Worker's Playtime", though "Talking with the Taxman About Poetry" runs a close second. Really worth paying attention to. If you only have the patience for a couple of songs, perhaps my all time favorites might be "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" and "Ideology". He's got quite an accent in those early albums, so it's worthwhile to explore the lyrics. He's definitely political... big Union man, Socialist, outspoken advocate for the Commons in general. Last time i saw him (12 years ago?) when the show ended, the house lights came up pretty much right away and he was on the stage sitting on a stool and said , "So who wants to talk?". There was a good activist roundabout afterward. He's good folk....

Cheers and enjoy.

[KoKo]

8. Here's a good one about Union Organizing

Uploaded on Feb 8, 2010

Remember the Miners Strike 1984-1985

[demmiblue]

9. Also, this: (There is Power in a Union)

[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. Didn't DU fight over Billy Bragg at one time...

big house or sumthin'? Thought I'd get it out there before Camp Weathervane blows in...

[Cheese Sandwich]

5. Probably drives a Volvo

[whereisjustice]

7. lol - still cleaner than Hillary's VW inspired campaign engine!

[NorthCarolina]

17. ...

[demmiblue]

11. You are becoming increasingly nasty. n/t

[cantbeserious]

13. Blah Blah Blah Back At You

ep,

[artislife]

23. I didn't know Englishmen could be rednecks, did you?

ha! Ahide and then a delete...



I think we see someone's anger showing. I wonder who they were in their past life? Ghengas Khan? A vandal? A scullery maid? I find it interesting.

[cantbeserious]

24. Chuckles

eom

[beam me up scottie]

14. What is wrong with you? Billy Bragg is a left wing singer and activist from the UK.

Billy Bragg

Born 20 December 1957 (age 57)
Barking, Essex, UK
Genres Folk punk,[1] folk rock, indie folk, alternative rock, alternative country, Americana
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician, author
Instruments Vocals, guitar
Years active 1977–present


Recorded October 2012 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Mastertapes
Stephen William "Billy" Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist.[2][3] His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes. He has been called the "Bard of Barking".[4]

Bragg was born in 1957 in Barking, Essex,[5] one of the sons of Dennis Frederick Austin Bragg, an assistant sales manager to a Barking cap and hat maker, and his wife, Marie Victoria D'Urso, who was of Italian descent;[6] Bragg's father died of lung cancer in 1976,[7] his mother in 2011.[8] Bragg was educated at Northbury Junior School (now Northbury Primary), and Park Secondary Modern (now Barking Abbey Secondary School[9]) in Barking, where he failed his eleven-plus exam, effectively precluding him from going to university.[10] He put his energies into learning and practising the guitar with his next-door neighbour, Philip Wigg (Wiggy); some of their influences were The Faces, The Small Faces, and The Rolling Stones. Bragg was particularly influenced by The Clash, whom he'd seen play live in London in May 1977 on their White Riot Tour, and again at a Rock Against Racism carnival in April 1978.[11] The experience of the gig and preceding march helped shape Bragg's left wing politics, having previously "turned a blind eye" to casual racism.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bragg

Red bait much?

Jesus Christ you're a piece of work.

[ancianita]

15. Rednecks don't have British accents or sing the "Internationale."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. So which offends you the most? Rednecks or Socialists?

The Red Flag or the Confederate Flag?

Chewing tobacco or vodka?

[Bluenorthwest]

18. The man's from East London.

Redneck is a North American term. You poor thing you can't even be mean without doing it wrong.

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. Woody Guthrie's daughter didn't think that

Nora Guthrie (daughter of American folk artist Woody Guthrie) asked Bragg to set some of her father's unrecorded lyrics to music.

The result was a collaboration with the band Wilco and Natalie Merchant (with whom Bragg had worked previously). They released the album Mermaid Avenue in 1998,[32] and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II in 2000.

[33] The first album was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. A third batch, Mermaid Avenue Vol III, and The Complete Sessions followed in 2012 to mark Woody Guthrie's centennial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bragg

Of course you might not know who Woodie is either

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Woody was a Redneck Socialist.

But, he was born in Texas rather than England.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

26. *Oklahoma.

[Docreed2003]

27. Mermaid Ave series...

One of my favorite album series. Bragg and Wilco absolutely nailed the soul and spirit of Woody's lyrics with a modern twist to the music

[Indepatriot]

21. He's no Katy Perry...

[Uncle Joe]

28. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Cheese Sandwich.