Billy Bragg and Hip-Hop Artist Boots Riley On Music, War and the Media

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  1. Mel Brennan

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    #1 Mel Brennan, Nov 14, 2003
    Tell Us The Truth: Billy Bragg and Hip-Hop Artist Boots Riley On Music, War and the Media

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    Democracy Now! interviews British singer-songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg and Boots Riley, rapper with the Oakland hip-hop group the Coup. They joined other musicians to kick off the Tell Us The Truth Tour at the opening session of the National Conference on Media Reform last Friday.

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  2. Prenn

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    #2 Prenn, Nov 14, 2003
    Ouch, calling Billy Bragg 'British', what an insult!
     
  3. Mel Brennan

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    #3 Mel Brennan, Nov 14, 2003
    lol ;)
     
  4. GringoTex

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    #4 GringoTex, Nov 14, 2003
    Britain isn’t cool you know, its really not that great
    It's not a proper country, it doesn’t even have a patron saint
    It's just an economic union that’s passed its sell-by date

    -Billy Bragg
     
  5. 655321

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    #5 655321, Nov 14, 2003
    Not that I don't appreciate his efforts, but I wish Billy Bragg would spend half as much time writing really bad ass songs.
     
  6. GringoTex

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    #6 GringoTex, Nov 14, 2003
    I'm not sure he has that many left in him. A songwriter's like an athlete, right? Has a 10-15 year prime and then everything's downhill from there.
     
  7. 655321

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    #7 655321, Nov 14, 2003
    Yea, except I think he's only written maybe three, ever.




    (go ahead, flame away, folks...)
     
  8. yossarian

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    #8 yossarian, Nov 14, 2003
    Well, I hope you're at least including "God's footballer" in that group.
     
  9. oman

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    #9 oman, Nov 14, 2003
    Difford and Tilbrook are still rocking and writing.

    At least they were a few years back.

    Them and Johnny Cash.
     
  10. Garcia

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    #10 Garcia, Nov 14, 2003
    Billy who?
     
  11. oman

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    #11 oman, Nov 14, 2003
    Must I paint you a picture?
     
  12. superdave

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    #12 superdave, Nov 14, 2003
    Cash wasn't writing songs at the end. He was covering Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails.
     
  13. Garcia

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    #13 Garcia, Nov 14, 2003
    I am a visual kinda guy.
     
  14. Garcia

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    #14 Garcia, Nov 14, 2003
    Cash-ing in? :)

    You so don't listen to NPR.

    I heard that his last hit was written for his wife that passed before him. True?
     
  15. BenReilly

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    #15 BenReilly, Nov 15, 2003
    He was writing first-rate songs well into his 60s.
     

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