“Kilroy Was Here” by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - album review
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Another fine set of contemporary songs mostly written and sung by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl with accompaniments by Calum & Neill MacColl, Ian Trimmer, Jim Bray, and supporting vocals from Susan Davis and Kitty MacColl. The false and windy rhetoric of politicians, pundits and talking heads is exposed and criticized throughout. Kilroy is the everyman who has heard it all before and is accustomed to getting the shitty end of the stick. He's imagined as an individual who wonders if the world wouldn't be a safer place without all those talking heads and this shrill pantomine dame (Thatcher) whose verbal diarrhoea threatens his world with imminent inundation.
The Jukebox Rebel
18–Aug–2018
Tracklist |
A1 | [03:12] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Seven Days Of The Week (Ewan MacColl) Folk |
A2 | [02:36] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Miss Heroin (Ruthie Gorton) Folk |
A3 | [03:19] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - In Praise Of Famous Men And Women (Ewan MacColl) Folk |
A4 | [03:25] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Ladybird (Ted Edwards) Folk |
A5 | [02:22] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Lullabye For A Very New Baby (Peggy Seeger) Folk |
A6 | [05:48] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - The Plutonium Factor (Peggy Seeger) Folk |
A7 | [02:29] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - The Vandals (Ewan MacColl) Folk |
A8 | [03:40] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Kilroy Was Here (Ewan MacColl) Folk |
B1 | [05:02] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - The Androids (Ewan MacColl) Jazz |
B2 | [02:40] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - What The Poet Called Her (Ewan MacColl) Folk |
B3 | [03:58] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Nobody Knew She Was There (Ewan MacColl) Folk |
B4 | [03:33] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - My Old Man (Ewan MacColl) Folk |
B5 | [04:25] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Get Rid Of It (Ewan MacColl) Folk |
B6 | [02:08] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Swallow And Trout (Fred Rooke) Folk |
B7 | [04:07] Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Four Minute Warning (Peggy Seeger) Folk |