Trouble Way Over in Vietnam
1971 · Agram Blues AB 2020 · Netherlands
- Artist
- Robert Pete Williams
- Title
- Trouble Way Over in Vietnam
- Release
- President Johnson's Blues
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Agram Blues # AB 2020
- Format
- CD · Compilation
- Language
- English
- Country
- Netherlands
- Genre
- Blues · Country Blues · Acoustic Blues
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Blues songs
This 2009 compilation (Agram Blues # AB 2020) by Guido Van Rijn, who has created a series of books and CDs about African-American blues and gospel songs about US Presidents (such as FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford), included many songs about civil rights, but also 10 Vietnam War songs, including some rare releases, such as "Viet Nam" by Madame Nellie Robinson.1 The notes of the CD booklet said that: Proportionally there were not more African American in Vietnam, but their death rate was thirty percent higher....People began burning their draft cards, and criticism of the once popular president became quite outspoken in blues and gospel lyrics. When Martin Luther King lashed out against the war in 1967, the president felt betrayed by his former civil rights ally. After the 1968 Tet offensive, Johnson’s approval rating dropped to 36%Sources1home.tiscali.nl (archived copy)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
American blues singer, born 14 March 1914 in Zachary, Louisiana ('Vietnam Blues'); died 31 December 1980 in Rosedale, Louisiana. [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
From the release President Johnson's Blues
In collections
Blues songs · European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]