Daily Dose of Protest: Five Years – Cowboy Junkies

The Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alt-country band who released their first album back in 1986. They are most known for their 1988 album The Trinity Session, which notably featured their cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane.” The lo-fi classic was recorded in a church for under $250 and it ended up selling over a million copies. Not necessarily […]

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Daily Dose of Protest: I’m Afraid of Americans – David Bowie

David Bowie died on January 10, 2016. Bowie was known as a groundbreaking innovator who was constantly reinventing himself. Bowie wasn’t specifically known for his protest music, but he did possess a social conscience and much of his music was shaped by whatever the current political climate happened to be at the time. For example, Bowie’s entire 1974 album Diamond […]

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