Marc Ribot – Songs Of Resistance 1942-2018 [LP]

Description

With his new album Songs of Resistance 1948 – 2018, Ribotone of the worlds most accomplished and acclaimed guitar playersset out to assemble a set of songs that spoke to this political moment with appropriate ambition, passion, and fury. The eleven songs on the record are drawn from the World War II anti-Fascist Italian partisans, the U.S. civil rights movement, and Mexican protest ballads, as well as original compositions, and feature a wide range of guest vocalists, including Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Vivian Bond, Fay Victor, Sam Amidon, and Ohene Cornelius. Over a forty-year career, Ribot has released twenty-five albums under his own name and been a beacon of New Yorks downtown/experimental music scene, leading a series of bands including Los Cubanos Postizos and Ceramic Dog. Since his work with Tom Waits on 1985s Rain Dogs album, though, he is best known to the world as a sideman, playing on countless albums by the likes of Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp, Norah Jones, the Black Keys, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Grammy-winning collaboration Raising Sand.

Tracklist:

1. We Are Soldiers in the Army
2. Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful)
3. Srinivas
4. How To Walk In Freedom
5. Rata de dos Patas
6. The Militant Ecologist (based on Fischia II Vento)
7. The Big Fool
8. Ain’t Gonna Let Them Turn Us Round
9. John Brown
10. Knock That Statue Down
11. We’ll Never Turn Back

UPC: 045778760411
Label: Epitaph
Release Date: 9.21.18
Format: Vinyl