Poverty Is Curable, But It’s Just Not

Poverty Is Not An Accident Of, Sort Of, An Economic Spreadsheet. Poverty Is A Crime. There Are Criminals Involved. And Those Criminals Walk The Streets As Free Men. What My Music Is About, And What - This From The Riots In The Streets Of Greece And Spain To The People's Uprisings In Egypt And Libya And Madison Is About Is Holding Those People Accountable, Those Who Are Responsible For Subverting The Entire Global Economy And Causing So Much Misery And Then Laughing About It With Their, You Know, Clinking Their Champagne Glasses On Their Yachts.

Then About 12 Years Ago It Dawned On Me That Folk Music - The Music Of Woody Guthrie And Phil Ochs, Early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - Could Be As Heavy As Anything That Comes Through A Marshall Stack. The Combination Of Three Chords And The Right Lyrical Couplet Can Be As Heavy As Anything In The Metallica Catalogue.

Things Like Rebellion And Resistance To Authority Are Absolutely As Much A Part Of The Human Experience As Love And Cars Are, And It's A Part That Doesn't Get Covered Very Much In Pop Music.

A Musicians Or Artists Responsibility Is A Simple One, And That Is, Through Your Music To Tell The Truth.

We Have Power Not Just With Our Voices, But We Have Economic Power In What We Do For A Living, Too.