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Setting This War to Music

By AAN Staff
march 20, 2003  08:59 pm
Setting This War to Music
As American bombs fall on Iraq, songwriters across the county feel compelled to put their thoughts to music. Whether they be kick-ass country anthems or anti-war folk songs, they follow in a long tradition of American songs about war, from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to the "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag." Local Planet Weekly writer Jeremy Hadley asks songwriters around the country about the deep emotions driving them to lay a bed of music beneath our debate about the war.
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