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Originally Posted by Zeeshan
A blurb with each post would be nice bk bhai letting us know the theme so that we can explore more by ourselves. 
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Very good idea, you are right Gopal...by the way most of the songs here, almost all the songs posted here are politically inpired or inspiring, reflection of a mental state at a bottom of all human suffering, struggle and desperation to live a life as a human being.
Why Towns Van Zandt? Mr. Van Zandt wrote and spoke of human poverty and pain, not exactly an exact copy of the Afrikan American Delta Blues (Inshallah, I am going to open and in-depth Delta Blues Thread explainign, portraying the Afrikan-American experience and the Deep South's role in inventing the Americana called the blues musik) , but of course extremely heavily influenced and guided by the Blues movement/expecience. Van Zandt spoke vividly of substance abuse, cheap liqour and the loss of loved ones, he is one of the single most mainstream influencial White singer/song-writers who single-handedly sang, wrote and spoke for the Mexican immigrants and their state of mind and experience in the American desert in the American west. Van Zandt covered a lot on depression and suffering from depression and cheap alcohol, morphine, codine, cocane and heroin until the day he died at the age 52 day after the release from a Rehab. He was a proud American and he sang about the American South, but he also felt very close to Mexico, specifically the Eastern coast of Mexico.
Iris Dement is very political just like Towns Van Zandt. She is known for writing songs about memories (Like many other song-writers but still very differently), she is also from the South like Van Zandt and Dement studied musik in Nashville and had very structured Guiter based Country/Gospel musik education. Thus you see the heavy influence of Country in her songs, But she is always and will always be known as the most politically critical of the U.S. Foreign Policy, Anti-war, Folk Singer performer.
Emmylou Harris was extremely beautiful when she was young in the 60's as you can see, she has an amazingly rare voice....she did sing a lot of country musik, published a lot of country albums, but still she is also known to be a very strong Folk singer/voice in this domain.