Political songs: winners and losers

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) | Date: September 21, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Playing partisan

Winners, losers in this year's batch of political songs

This voting season, the political songs out there could have you seeing red or feeling blue.

With a presidential race that's so divisive, to put it mildly, many an entertainer has been hard at work in the studio creating a musical call to action -- at least that's true for musicians hoping to see a new commander in chief installed come January.

After a spate of high-profile releases in 2003 supportive of the president and his policies, such as Toby Keith's "The Taliban Song" and Darryl Worley's "Have You Forgotten," ...

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