Does anyone do good protest music anymore?

Incubus, with their new "A Crow Left of The Murder"...

Dead Prez, The Coup, John McGlaughlin--all challenge the dominant paradigm!

Todd Snider's new album is a good one. Also, second the Steve Earl.

Springsteen. He writes protest songs all the time. "Born in the USA" was a protest song about Vietnam , but everybody thought that it was a patriotic song. Reagan even used it as a campaign song until Springsteen made him stop using it. "41 Shots" is a protest song dealing with the police shooting of that poor guy with his wallet in his hand. The song got the name because the police shot the guy 41 times. "Galveston Bay" is a song about the terrible treatment of the Vietnamese fishermen that settled in Galveston after they were forced to flee Vietnam for helping the USA during the war. On his newest album "Devils and Dust" the title song is about a soldier comimg home from Iraq. He wrote a great song about a Vietnam vet who was a tunnel rat in "Shut out the Light". The vet came home afraid of the dark. He also writes protests against the conditions of the poor and hopeless. "My hometown" is a protest against the harshness of Reaganism and big business. I don't know of a more active protest song writer. He even received boxes of broken records and CDs from conservatives because he campaigned for Kerry last year. Jim

Whoops, correct that last suggestion: it's John McCutcheon (my nominee for best candidate to fill Pete Seeger's shoes) when the time comes. On second thought John McGlaughlin's guitar playing could inspire a listener to go out and change the world.
Joe