Steve Earle on his Hillary vote (and his Bernie pref):
I think it's fairly obvious that I'm not going to vote for Donald Trump. And one thing I'm never going to be is a person who doesn't vote, especially in this election. I have my problems with Hillary Clinton. I'm a real live leftie. My politics are unapologetically radical and I'm OK with that. The Sanders campaign was the only thing vaguely democratic that has taken place in this whole election cycle on either side, as far as I can see. Even the Clinton campaign recognized immediately what was going on. The two sides have been incredibly respectful of each other, I think, and done this the way that it's supposed to be done. I'll never believe that we've practiced in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that. . . has kind of gone out the window on the other side. . . If you ever had any doubt that reality television is harmful, put that to rest. I'm trying to protect my intellect. I used to smoke crack and watch Cops. When I stopped taking drugs, I stopped watching reality TV.
James McMurty on fracking and Trump:
The world seems to go crazy every ten or fifteen years. The anger that is fueling Trump now was there when Timothy McVeigh blew the wall off a building. But now everybody seems surprised to see that anger in Trump and [at] his rallies. It was there then and it is here now. Trump can’t get away with claiming he is not inciting violence, cause he damn well is.
Emmylou Harris is working with immigrants' rights groups in Nashville in response to the promises of Trump.
Joan Baez also played for fundraising concert which focuses on migrant workers and refugees:
“I call this a ‘pocket of sanity,'” she noted. “Don’t let the dogs get you down.” From there, she led the ensemble through Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee,” a song which looks at migrant workers and asks, “Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit? To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil And be called by no name except ‘deportees?'”
She then told the audience, “My father was a immigrant from Mexico… and he invented the x ray microscope! It’s not about people who are taking from us, they’re bringing us their gifts!” She and Earle then sang his song “God is God.”