Citizens, hear me out!
2017-05-11 23:58:18.431156+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Walter O’Brien: The Man Who Never Returned:
Most Americans know the song “MTA,” popularized by the Kingston Trio in 1959. It’s the one about a “man named Charlie” doomed to “ride forever ’neath the streets of Boston . . . the man who never returned.” What’s forgotten, however, is that the song was originally made for a left-wing political campaign.
A good look at folk music in the era of the red scare, the politics of subways, private profit from public subsidy...