Loudon Wainwright III

The best political songs combine passionate commitment and analytic command, laced with
streaks of black humor, as in prime Mekons or Gil Scott-Heron. Liberal detachment can
sound just as smug as the self-righteousness so many protest singers run aground on. So if
this collection of the occasional songs Loudon Wainwright III occasionally composes for
National Public Radio enjoys the advantage of his perpetual cleverness, it suffers... More >

Commentary not protest, and usually worse for it ("Tonya's Twirls," "Pretty Good Day")