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Billy Bragg: Still a Folk Rebel with an Amp

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Billy Bragg is still angry and that’s a good thing. He’s arming prisoners with guitars! He’s still a huge Clash fan too and has released Old Clash Fan Fight Song, which is three minutes of both lyrical and musical quotes from the Strummer/Jones catalog, as a tribute to the five year anniversary of Joe’s death. He assures us that George Bush and Tony Blair will soon be on the way out and ends with the fabulous 

Coorperation not competition

Coorperation is not sedition

That off key British croak of his never fails to bring a smile to my face.