.WOODY GUTHRIE’S “equipment” eliminated fascists– or so America’s terrific dust-bowl balladeer wrote on his guitar. Jack White’s electricity machine “files a claim against fascists”, composed the frontman of The White Lines on Instagram on September 9th. The “fascist” is actually Donald Trump, that lately made use of the band’s most pop music, “Seven Country Military”, in a campaign video recording.
Mr White prefers him to cease. He participates in a lengthy checklist of artists that object to Mr Trump using their popular music: Abba, Celine Dion, Beyoncu00e9, Foo Fighters, the estates of Isaac Hayes as well as Sinu00e9ad O’Connor and also Johnny Marr of The Smiths– and those are merely the objectors from this year. (We have actually come up with a playlist of Trump-appropriated tracks.) Can they transform the songs off?