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happened to run across the November, 2004, issue of Vanity Fair, which includes a Mellencamp article on protest songs and social conscience . . . can't find it online, but here's his "Top Ten," without the commentary . . .
1. Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land Deportee (Plane Wrect at Los Gatos) Do-Re-Mi Vigalante Man This Train Is Bound for Glory
2. Bob Dylan Masters of War A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall Only a Pawn in Their Game The Times They Are A-changin Blowin' in the Wind
3. John Lennon Imagine Give Peace a Chance Working Class Hero Woman Is The Nigger of the World
4. Buffy Sainte-Marie Universal Soldier
5. Billie Holiday Strange Fruit
6. Marvin Gaye What's Going On
7. Neil Young Ohio
8. Bob Marley Get Up, Stand Up (co-written with Peter Tosh
9. Les McCann & Eddie Harris Compared To What
10. Pete Seeger We Shall Overcome
good selection, imo, but I'd also include Seeger's Waist Deep In The Big Muddy, Phil Ochs' I Ain't Marching Anymore, and Country Joe and the Fish's Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag . . .
for you younger DUers who may not be familiar with a lot of these, it would be well worth your while to look them up and give a listen . . .
and for us older folk, it's great nostalgia . . . :)
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