@chrisaldrich I'm with you, I'd love to hear some more political songs in general - it's surprising that with union support on the rise and social justice being so central to the cultural conversation they don't seem to have made it into the songwriters' repertoire (at least in the genres I listen to 🤷‍♀️) I've heard some Bruce covers I liked recently - so maybe his work's resonating - but not original material. A friend was just texting me Peter Paul and Mary union songs 😂 Newest I could come up with was a Colin Meloy side project that covered an 1800s union song Blackleg Miner in 2017 🤷‍♀️ And Depeche Mode's 2016 Where's the Revolution 😂 🤦‍♀️

I recently saw someone positing that music is less culturally important and shared today than the seventies - that people now listen to music on their own mostly, and don't talk about it with their friends the same way they do TV shows. That does match with my experience post college - shared music only seems connected to live shows and mixtape culture has died out. My impression is that a lot of listening now is background for work or workouts. Could be some connection between what music people are writing and how people are listening / what they're interested in listening to 🤷‍♀️