purchase [ Gil Scott Heron “Work for Peace ”]   Gil Scott-Heron sang, rapped and read poetry about history and hist...

[ purchase Here We Go ] An article in an old (not so old that it is history yet) NewYorker I recently read an article that indicate...

The Minutemen (1980-85) were the greatest punk rock band of all-time. Better than The Clash , better than X , better than The Ramones , Hü...

"I am behind the times. But not so far that I don't realize the futility of making a 'regional' record in a 'global...

I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him where are you going? And this he told me I'm goin' on down ...

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The Kinks: Mr. Churchill Says [ purchase ] And here's another great history song. This one quotes a few of Winston Churchill's gre...

They Might Be Giants: Meet James Ensor [ purchase ] There’s a common misconception that, to be of artistic merit, a work must announce itse...

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The Band: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [ purchase ] In 1865, during the final days of the American Civil War, Richmond VA was t...

Tom T. Hall: Watergate Blues [ purchase ] Not a lot to say about this one. The song pretty much tells the story. Here's a Wikipedia ...

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"While runnning at a high rate of speed Train No. 97 on the Southern Railway, the south-bound fast mail train, jumped from a trestle 75...

Rudy Burkhalter : Cheeseday In Monroe As a slight bicarbonite in the dark glass of death, intrigue, etc., that this theme engenders, let thi...

Bob Dylan: Joey [ purchase ] Though the theme is history, Dylan grasp on the specifics here is tenuous at best. When a mobster is ki...

The Clash: Washington Bullets [ purchase ] It's time for some (post) punk on this theme. By the time Sandinista! came out, The Clash we...

The Band , Acadian Driftwood [ purchase ] The story of the Great Acadian Upheaval , and the subsequent diaspora which brought so many Acadia...

One of the worst riots in American history began on July 23, 1967, at the corner of 12th Street and Clairmount on the west side of Detroit. ...