President Nixon's Blues
2011 · Agram Blues ABCD 2022 · Netherlands
- Artist
- Various Artists
- Title
- President Nixon's Blues
- Release
- President Nixon's Blues
- Year
- 2011
- Label
- Agram Blues # ABCD 2022
- Format
- CD · Compilation
- Language
- English
- Country
- Netherlands
- Songwriter
- Various
- Genre
- Blues
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Vietnam War Compilations
2011 compilation (Agram Blues # AB 2022) 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), including many songs about the Vietnam War, Watergate, and economic troubles. Vietnam War songs include the rare "I Ain't Buyin No Saigon Tea" by Kurrt Watkins and Soul Sister 7, as well as some other more well-known tracks, such as "Please Settle in Viet Nam" by Lightnin' Hopkins, and "Vietnam Blues" by Robert Pete Williams. Also see: Vietnam War: Blues songs. The booklet notes: "Although Nixon had run for president promising to end the war in Vietnam, it would take four years before a peace treaty was signed. Blues and gospel songs about the first part of the war were studied in President Johnson's Blues, the musicians' response to the continuing entanglement in Southeast Asia is discussed in this fifth volume"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Agram Blues ABCD 2022, CD, Netherlands; 22 blues and gospel songs from 1969-76 (the Vietnam War, Watergate, the economy), companion to Guido van Rijn's book The Nixon and Ford Blues; Vietnam songs include Kurrt Watkins and Soul Sister 7 "I Ain't Buyin No Saigon Tea", Lightnin' Hopkins "Please Settle in Viet Nam", Leon Thomas "Damn Nam (Ain't Goin' to Vietnam)" and Robert Pete Williams "Vietnam Blues". No release page on Discogs; year from Rate Your Music and the Discogs label listing. Entered as one release. [From Agram Blues]
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