"Year w/out a Summer" & "Rich Men North of a Million:" This Date in History

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Two years ago Billy Bragg released this song...not exactly a response to Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond" but more of a clarifying of the message...of course that is my opinion.

 
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#OTD in 1816 a Heavy Frost covered N.C. & The South-‘The Year W/O a Summer’ was caused by the Eruption of Indonesia’s Mt.Tambora in April of 1815. Volcanic dust caused drought, low temps, and other strange & devastating weather around the world for months. North Carolina’s “Year Without a Summer,” 1816



Image is from the ‘Raleigh Minerva’ of September 27, 1816.
 
donbosco said:
Two years ago Billy Bragg released this song...not exactly a response to Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond" but more of a clarifying of the message...of course that is my opinion.

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I don't understand. Bragg specifically said that it was a response, and obviously the lyrics are structured like a discourse with Anthony.
 
I don’t believe that Bragg was ‘calling out’ Anthony but rather wanted to leave him room to reinterpret his ways of seeing. He’d make a better ally than enemy after all.
 
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