Chris wrote,

"However, the biggest problem is something else. It's that this CD on the whole isn't really sure of itself. Is it a CD of political music, with songs like "Let's Organize"? Or is it a CD of personal songs like "Emily"? Or is it a CD of railroad, trucker, hillbilly, and sailor songs? I wish Steve would have made up his mind."

I won't comment on the CD, as I haven't heard it, but I don't quite get this comment. Even in the 1960s heyday of political (I'd rather say, topical) song, it was unusual to see an album that was entirely political. Look at Bob Dylan's Freewheelin, or Tom Paxton's Rambling Boy, or Phil Ochs' I Ain't Marching Any More, and you'll find a similar mix. Hard Rain on the same album as Bob Dylan's Dream, Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation on the same album as Last Thing On My Mind, The Iron Lady on the same album as The Highwayman - do you wish Dylan and Paxton and Ochs et al had made up their mind?

Offhand I can come up with two albums that were wholly, or almost wholly, topical: Tom Lehrer's That Was The Year That Was, and Phil Ochs' In Concert. And even that one had Changes on it, so it wasn't wholly topical.

Let a thousand flowers bloom.