Robb Johnson -quite a lot of his work actually.

A song from Robb Johnson "I close my eyes" on his latest album "Margaret Thatcher My part in her downfall" Irregular records.

I asked him to play this a few years ago when he was the resident musician at a folk club I was running in in Slough (uk). It is so powerful that there was a few moments of silence while the audience -stunned- tried to react appropriatly and eventually they burst into applause.

The song's main theme is about one man's experience of the second world war (amongst other things).

Most powerful songs on emotive uncormfortable issues such as child abuse (as mentioned earlier in this thread) have such an impact because the listner does not want to be seen to be approving of the subject matter while still wanting to acknowledge the effect of the song.

Robb has many many songs that fall in to the catergary of powerful songs some of which I have seen reduce people to tears on many occasions and will also be uncomfortable.

I do not agree with Robb's stark political viewpoint but any one who is interested in politics could not be failed to be moved in some way by his work.

It would be unforgivable to portray an overview of his music as being strictly polemical when it is his observance of every day day life that he is at his most moving and powerful.

Cllr