I have followed Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine, to Audio Slave and his solo work. A lot of it is very folksy, protest, anti-corruption type stuff. some can be hit or miss but talented none the less.
Tom Morello – The Iron Wheel
AKA The Nightwatchman, I believe. He has a bit of the same cadence as Bruce Cockburn – maybe it’s just a standard folk thing. A good track.
“…the truth, it lies in pieces on the newsroom floor”
I’m not sure how to say this, but it reminds me a bit of some of my solo work 🙂
Also,I saw him open for Michael Franti on the tour for the album last week’s track is from, All Rebel Rockers – enjoyed his set.
“The Iron Wheel”/Tom Morello. Very successful assay at writing and recording a traditional-folk-sounding all-purpose protest song, complete with strummed guitar and campfire-singalong chorus (assuming the campers are allowed to sing “fuckers”). Plays on multiple tropes, including “don’t believe what they tell you” and, in the iron wheel, the sense of either history as an ineluctable force or the cyclical nature of justice (i.e., what goes around comes around). Pretty pretty good.
Tom- This definitely did not start out as I expected, given Tom Morello’s rep. No WEEEYOOOOOs! or ZZZZZZZZGGGGAAZ! But I love a little unpectedness. Pleasantly surpised with the tones here- folky, earnest, with a cool little organ in the background and a clear, protestation of a lyric. I would have guessed O’Driscoll picked this one, but paint me surprised. Again !
“The Iron Wheel”by Tom Morello: Ahh…just the grit I was looking for ,,,those fuckers. Enjoyed this one …….kept waiting for the Morello signature guitar riffing but it never kicked in which is not necessarily a bad thing but wanted a little bitty taste too.
I have followed Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine, to Audio Slave and his solo work. A lot of it is very folksy, protest, anti-corruption type stuff. some can be hit or miss but talented none the less.
Tom Morello – The Iron Wheel
AKA The Nightwatchman, I believe. He has a bit of the same cadence as Bruce Cockburn – maybe it’s just a standard folk thing. A good track.
“…the truth, it lies in pieces on the newsroom floor”
I’m not sure how to say this, but it reminds me a bit of some of my solo work 🙂
Also,I saw him open for Michael Franti on the tour for the album last week’s track is from, All Rebel Rockers – enjoyed his set.
“The Iron Wheel”/Tom Morello. Very successful assay at writing and recording a traditional-folk-sounding all-purpose protest song, complete with strummed guitar and campfire-singalong chorus (assuming the campers are allowed to sing “fuckers”). Plays on multiple tropes, including “don’t believe what they tell you” and, in the iron wheel, the sense of either history as an ineluctable force or the cyclical nature of justice (i.e., what goes around comes around). Pretty pretty good.
Tom- This definitely did not start out as I expected, given Tom Morello’s rep. No WEEEYOOOOOs! or ZZZZZZZZGGGGAAZ! But I love a little unpectedness. Pleasantly surpised with the tones here- folky, earnest, with a cool little organ in the background and a clear, protestation of a lyric. I would have guessed O’Driscoll picked this one, but paint me surprised. Again !
“The Iron Wheel”by Tom Morello: Ahh…just the grit I was looking for ,,,those fuckers. Enjoyed this one …….kept waiting for the Morello signature guitar riffing but it never kicked in which is not necessarily a bad thing but wanted a little bitty taste too.