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Confession: I'm not into Rage Against the Machine. I get that they're great but their sound isn't to my taste. However, I loved the Tom Morello/Bruce Springsteen collaborations. So I checked out Speaking Truth to Power, which is part of Audible's Words + Music series in which musicians create an audio work of their choice which is part music and part song.
It's great. It's SO GREAT. Funny, passionate, and legit inspiring. And don't we all need inspiration right now? Morello tells his life story, as a Black nerd in a white neighborhood as a kid, becoming a musician, becoming an activist, becoming a father, meeting his own father, and the influence of his amazing-sounding mother. It's a great story, really well told. It's a recording of a live performance, and captures the energy of a really great concert. And don't we all need the feeling of a really great concert right now?
I still don't love Rage Against the Machine, but Morello also performs "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and some songs from a folk album I didn't even know existed, "The Night Watchman," and I loved those. So I recommend it to everyone, whether you like Rage Against the Machine or his solo work or neither or have never heard either.
It's great. It's SO GREAT. Funny, passionate, and legit inspiring. And don't we all need inspiration right now? Morello tells his life story, as a Black nerd in a white neighborhood as a kid, becoming a musician, becoming an activist, becoming a father, meeting his own father, and the influence of his amazing-sounding mother. It's a great story, really well told. It's a recording of a live performance, and captures the energy of a really great concert. And don't we all need the feeling of a really great concert right now?
I still don't love Rage Against the Machine, but Morello also performs "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and some songs from a folk album I didn't even know existed, "The Night Watchman," and I loved those. So I recommend it to everyone, whether you like Rage Against the Machine or his solo work or neither or have never heard either.
