Like many other Americans, guitarist
Marc Ribot had a visceral reaction the night Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Almost immediately he began studying history's political songs to interact with the present, selecting what he thought would work right now. The result of that sojourn of study, writing, arranging, and recording is
Songs of Resistance 1942-2018. He reworked classic songs and wrote new ones. He enlisted a stellar cast of collaborators including
Fay Victor,
Justin Vivian Bond,
Meshell Ndegeocello,
Sam Amidon,
Steve Earle,
Tift Merritt,
Tom Waits,
Syd Straw, and
Ohene Cornelius. Profits from the recording will be donated to the Indivisible Project.