Does anyone do good protest music anymore?


I had the news on the radio at work this morning and there was some fellow babbling on about reinstituting the draft. At the same time I had the CDP on and Simon and Garfunkel were doing a Dylan protest song. This set my mind to wondering... but I don't remember what I was wondering about.

In the 60's and even early 70's there were lots of talented people protesting. Dylan and S&G are a couple of the obvious suspects but people like Gordon Lightfoot, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez and Barry McGuire added a lot to that period.

With this reactionary fearmongering about the draft is there any chance that a new crop of 'protest' singers will emerge, or has the good stuff already been done, and if so, who did it?
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greg brown, lucy kaplansky, john prine, phil ochs, rickie lee jones, patti smith, pete seeger, david wilcox, k.d. lang, bruce cockburn, spearhead, the pouges, ramblin' jack elliott, charlie musselwhite, bruce hornsby, neil young, maria muldaur, stephen stills, emmy lou harris, nanci griffith, gillian welch, guy clark..... and many more.
There is nothing to protest anymore now that the GOP has the whole US of A in its arms and that the US of A has the whole world in its arms. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

Just for his way of looking at the world and singing about it I think Tom Waits qualifies. It may be a bit too hermetic for some, but it is protest and acceptance all in one.