“Kilroy Was Here” by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - album review

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TJR says

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] 7.1.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Seven Days Of The Week (Ewan MacColl) Folk
A2 [02:36] 7.5.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Miss Heroin (Ruthie Gorton) Folk
A3 [03:19] 7.8.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - In Praise Of Famous Men And Women (Ewan MacColl) Folk
A4 [03:25] 6.5.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Ladybird (Ted Edwards) Folk
A5 [02:22] 5.8.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Lullabye For A Very New Baby (Peggy Seeger) Folk
A6 [05:48] 7.1.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - The Plutonium Factor (Peggy Seeger) Folk
A7 [02:29] 7.0.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - The Vandals (Ewan MacColl) Folk
A8 [03:40] 9.1.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Kilroy Was Here (Ewan MacColl) Folk
B1 [05:02] 8.1.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - The Androids (Ewan MacColl) Jazz
B2 [02:40] 7.7.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - What The Poet Called Her (Ewan MacColl) Folk
B3 [03:58] 7.0.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Nobody Knew She Was There (Ewan MacColl) Folk
B4 [03:33] 6.8.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - My Old Man (Ewan MacColl) Folk
B5 [04:25] 6.5.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Get Rid Of It (Ewan MacColl) Folk
B6 [02:08] 7.6.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Swallow And Trout (Fred Rooke) Folk
B7 [04:07] 7.3.png Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger - Four Minute Warning (Peggy Seeger) Folk

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