Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll

Where Dylan chose the wide lense and the broad strokes of hope, Costello brings us the specifics, the fine details of despairPolitics and rock'n'roll have lain a-bed for decades: Woody Guthrie, Billie Holiday, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, curled up beside the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and the environmental movement. I've returned to many of them lately, in the lead-up to 6 May, but the ones I have headed back to most often have been two songs separated by time, ocean...

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