Dropkick Murphys champion the working class and call out political swindlers on their new album of Woody Guthrie songs, ‘This Machine Still Kills Fascists.’
“If you’re out there buying these fucking hats that these swindlers are selling…then you’re part of the problem!” Casey yelled. “Because you’re being duped by the greatest swindler in the history of the world…and a bunch of grifters and billionaires who don’t give a shit about you or your family!”
will clear it up. The record finds Casey and the band setting their supercharged brand of music to the lyrics of, the quintessential folk-protest singer and Oklahoma native who championed the working class and famously scribbled “This machine kills fascists” on his acoustic guitar. There are stomping anthems castigating “crooks,” “robbers,” and “rats” , shout-alongs celebrating unions , and smoldering indictments of wealthy hypocrisy and cruelty .
“If I dropped these lyrics in front of you, you’d go, ‘Oh, what band wrote this last week?’” Casey says. “It goes to show the world is cyclical and what goes around, unfortunately, sometimes comes around. And it’s coming back around again.” “How can you take a working-class person and turn them into someone who would argue on behalf of the ultra-rich, over standing shoulder to shoulder with their fellow worker? But that’s what the people in power and wealth always wanted to do: Divide. Their biggest fear is the voice of the people and the voice of the worker united,” Casey says. “Those people in power, the elite and the wealthy, are really just laughing at us. And no one in my opinion sums that up more than Donald Trump.
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