Rainer Rother is Programme Director for Cinema at the German Historical Museum in Berlin.

'... an invaluable key to understanding this group which otherwise seems inarticulate, inscrutable, or threatening. These songs not only provide insight into another social world, but they entertain and please the ear with their artistry. Unintentionally perhaps, they bridge some of the great social and racial divides that America has created, as well as providing spiritual and artistic nounshment for the victims of these divides'. David Evans, University of Memphis, from the Foreword.

• Truman's Blues (1945 - 1953); the Freedom Choo Choo; Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb; Those Reconversion Blues; Say a Prayer for the Boys in Korea; Eisenhower's Blues (1953 - 1961); There's Peace in Korea; I'm a Democrat Man; Things are So Slow; The Alabama Bus.

Rainer Rother is Programme Director for Cinema at the German Historical Museum in Berlin.

'... an invaluable key to understanding this group which otherwise seems inarticulate, inscrutable, or threatening. These songs not only provide insight into another social world, but they entertain and please the ear with their artistry. Unintentionally perhaps, they bridge some of the great social and racial divides that America has created, as well as providing spiritual and artistic nounshment for the victims of these divides'. David Evans, University of Memphis, from the Foreword.

• Truman's Blues (1945 - 1953); the Freedom Choo Choo; Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb; Those Reconversion Blues; Say a Prayer for the Boys in Korea; Eisenhower's Blues (1953 - 1961); There's Peace in Korea; I'm a Democrat Man; Things are So Slow; The Alabama Bus.