“I saw sights I never thought I’d see in an American city,” he said before one song. “The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.”
He dedicated the song, How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live, to “President Bystander”.
Afterwards his rendition of We Shall Overcome reduced some of the audience to tears and hugs, as did a moving version of My Oklahoma Home, a song that echoes the plight of New Orleans in its portrayal of the dust storms in Oklahoma in the 1930s. (continued)
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