Marc Ribot Announces New LP 'Songs of Resistance 1942 - 2018' Featuring Tom Waits And Steve Earle

Marc Ribot will release a new album this autumn.

'Songs of Resistance 1942 - 2018' is due out on September 14 via ANTI- Records and boasts a number of guest vocalists, including Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Vivian Bond, Fay Victor, Ohene Cornelius and Sam Amidon.

The record contains "a few original compositions as well as traditional songs that are drawn from World War II anti-Fascist Italian partisans, the U.S. civil rights movement and Mexican protest ballads".

Srinivas, which features Earle alongside Domenica Fossati and Tift Merritt, is the first track to be shared from the album. It was written about the murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla. Discussing it, Ribot said:

“In the original version I had named the guy who shot him, but Steve changed that—he said, ‘That guy is just some poor idiot, it’s not about him, it’s about the ones who set him up.’ That kind of intelligence and wisdom coming from the artist was important to me.

There’s no way Steve Earle is going to be a sock puppet for anyone else’s voice, and that’s exactly the kind of situation I wanted. It’s cool to have professional protest singers and all that, but I wanted to include artists who reached outside the ‘protest’ bubble.”

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