The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65727   Message #1085000
Posted By: Big Mick
02-Jan-04 - 09:26 PM
Thread Name: Opinions please: Protest Singers
Subject: RE: Opinions please
Kendall, in my solo career I consider myself a protest singer. I try to peform songs and write lyrics that draw attention to injustice the way that Rick Fielding did in Voices of Struggle, Eric Bogle did in a number of songs such as Chains and Green Fields of France, etc. Anne Feeney gets a strong credit from me. There are a fair amount of social activist singers out there, but airplay is non existent. We rely on our live performances. I am trying to put the bucks aside for a CD of issue related original and others stuff, but I know it will not make any money. It will be more of a statement. That is fine.

The key, as Ron pointed out, is being more of an activist who performs than the opposite.

Mick