Vinyl LP pressing. "Every movement which has ever won anything has had songs," says Marc Ribot. With his new LP, Songs of Resistance 1948-2018, Ribot - one of the world's most accomplished and acclaimed guitar players - set out to assemble a set of songs that spoke to this political moment with appropriate ambition, passion, and fury. The 11-songs on the record are drawn from the World War II anti-fascist Italian partisans, the U.S. civil rights movement, and Mexican protest ballads, as well as original compositions, and feature a wide range of guest vocalists, including Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Vivian Bond, Fay Victor, Sam Amidon, and Ohene Cornelius. Over a forty-year career, Ribot has released twenty-five albums under his own name and been a beacon of New York's downtown/experimental music scene, leading a series of bands including Los Cubanos Postizos and Ceramic Dog. Since his work with Tom Waits on 1985's Rain Dogs album, though, he is best known to the world as a sideman, playing on countless albums by the likes of Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp, Norah Jones, the Black Keys, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Grammy-winning collaboration Raising Sand.
Track List
We Are Soldiers in the Army - By Marc Ribot ; Fay Victor
Bella ciao - By Marc Ribot ; Tom Waits
Srinivas - By Steve Earle ; Tift Merritt
How To Walk In Freedom - By Marc Ribot Sam Amidon ; Fay Victor
Rata de dos Patas - By Marc Ribot ; Ohene Cornelius
The Militant Ecologist (based on Fischia II Vento) - By Marc Ribot ; Meshell Ndegeocello
The Big Fool
Ain't Gonna Let Them Turn Us Round - By Marc Ribot Steve Earle ; Tift Merritt
John Brown - By Marc Ribot ; Fay Victor
Knock That Statue Down - By Marc Ribot ; Syd Straw
We'll Never Turn Back - By Marc Ribot Justin Vivian Bond ; Domenica Fossati
