Billy
Five years ago, when he released his
staunch anti-Rupert Murdoch tune
“Never Buy the Sun” in the wake of that
paper’s blatant hacking of celebrity cell-
phones, British protest singer Billy Bragg
learned a valuable lesson – in the future,
he would always have to strike while the
days, having just turned 60, Bragg
delights in doing the unexpected, like his
2016 Field Recordings collaboration with
Joe Henry, or his latest book – Roots,
Radical & Rockers – How Skiffle Changed the
World. Naturally, outside of his shrewd
material, he has quite a lot to say about
our current Idiocracy prescient political
climate.
ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER: So what – in
your opinion – is going on out there in this
crazy world r