December 2008
3 posts
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The Progressive Patriot
I’ve just read The Progressive Patriot, by Billy Bragg. He’s one of my all-time heroes - shows what an impression the Bard of Barking’s full-page spread in Smash Hits had on me: he had his guitar plugged in to an amp in a rucksack on his back, with two speakers towering over his shoulders.
Known, primarily, as a political song-writer, I think his ballads and love-songs show...