# Folk singers and politics

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Podcast: [Against the Grain: The Farm Aid Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/against-the-grain-the-farm-aid-podcast-6618947)
Published: 2025-07-30T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.farmaid.org/podcast
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## Resource

In this first episode of Against the Grain's new series, Artists and Activism, we focus on the American folk music tradition. Music journalist Dorian Lynskey provides valuable historical context. He reminds us that music and politics have mixed from the beginning - even before the dawn of recorded sound - but that its folk musicians who popularized activist song and the trend of showing up in solidarity with those fighting oppression. We talk to folk musicians Steve Earle, Rainbow Girls, Tré ...

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