{"id":17742,"date":"2025-05-26T22:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T20:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=17742"},"modified":"2025-05-26T22:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T20:40:42","slug":"episode-362-no-more-slavery-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/episode-362-no-more-slavery-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 362. No More Slavery Chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mega-menu-wrap-primary\" class=\"mega-menu-wrap\"><div class=\"mega-menu-toggle\"><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-left\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-center\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-right\"><div class='mega-toggle-block mega-menu-toggle-animated-block mega-toggle-block-1' id='mega-toggle-block-1'><button aria-label=\"Menu\" class=\"mega-toggle-animated mega-toggle-animated-slider\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"mega-menu-primary\">\n                  <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-box\">\n                    <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-inner\"><\/span>\n                  <\/span>\n                <\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><ul id=\"mega-menu-primary\" class=\"mega-menu max-mega-menu mega-menu-horizontal mega-no-js\" data-event=\"hover_intent\" data-effect=\"slide\" data-effect-speed=\"200\" data-effect-mobile=\"slide\" data-effect-speed-mobile=\"200\" data-mobile-force-width=\"body\" data-second-click=\"go\" data-document-click=\"collapse\" data-vertical-behaviour=\"standard\" data-breakpoint=\"600\" data-unbind=\"true\" data-mobile-state=\"collapse_all\" data-mobile-direction=\"vertical\" data-hover-intent-timeout=\"300\" data-hover-intent-interval=\"100\"><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-menu-item-home mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19160\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19160\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19161\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19161\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/about-daniel\/\">About Daniel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-current_page_parent mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19171\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19171\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/all-episodes\/\">All Episodes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 362. No More Slavery Chains<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=1557-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>SOCIAL SHARE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fdcfc74e wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button alignright\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/\">SUBSCRIBE VIA YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLATFORM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/George-Floyd-Memorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/George-Floyd-Memorial.jpg 650w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/George-Floyd-Memorial-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">George Floyd Memorial by Taqi Spateen in southern occupied West Bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Five years ago, I awoke in Berlin to the horrifying news of the murder of George Floyd by a member of the Minneapolis Police Department. I had been working on cobbling together an episode on French Glamour, which quickly gave way instead to an impromptu episode of protest music through the ages which remains one of the <em>Countermelody <\/em>episodes of which I am most proud. Yesterday was the five-year commemoration of that horrific event, which sparked worldwide protests and which, for a while, seemed as if it might lead to systemic change. Five years later, we find ourselves in a true global nightmare. Almost everything that has changed has been for the worse, but my feelings about the system that has produced such calamity remains exactly the same as it has always been. For that reason, I am republishing that episode from five long years ago, in which I sought to \u201cdefer to those on the front lines to speak of their own experience and truth\u201d in a program of protest music from the early twentieth century to the recent past. Nina Simone\u2019s song of rage \u201cMississippi Goddam\u201d was a guiding force as I put the episode together, but we hear from a wide range of singers, from Donny Hathaway, Micki Grant, Pete Seeger, Mahalia Jackson, Odetta, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, to Joan Baez, Cher, Barbra Streisand, Paul Robeson, and Marlene Dietrich. If you don\u2019t want to hear a political program, for goddess\u2019s sake, keep away, but if you do want to be infuriated, engaged, and ultimately uplifted, please listen in.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"979\" height=\"598\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shareeduh-McGee.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shareeduh-McGee.png 979w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shareeduh-McGee-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shareeduh-McGee-768x469.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Shareeduh McGee, cousin of George Floyd, and President of the\u00a0929\u00a0Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-size\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong> RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Keedron-Bryant.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Keedron-Bryant.jpg 697w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Keedron-Bryant-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Keedron Bryant in 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Keedron Bryant: I Just Wanna Live<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Keedron-Bryant-today.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Keedron-Bryant-today.jpg 554w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Keedron-Bryant-today-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Keedron-Bryant-today-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Keedron Bryant today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" data-id=\"4649\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Abel-Meeropol.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Abel-Meeropol.jpg 800w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Abel-Meeropol-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Abel-Meeropol-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Abel Meeropol with the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whom he and his wife adopted after their parents were executed by the US government<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"750\" data-id=\"4650\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Billie-Holiday.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Billie-Holiday.png 443w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Billie-Holiday-177x300.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Billie Holiday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Abel Meeropol: Strange Fruit. Billie Holiday [live 1959 television performance]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nina-Simone-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nina-Simone-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nina-Simone-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nina-Simone-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nina-Simone.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam [live at Carnegie Hall 1964]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odetta.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4654\" style=\"width:563px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odetta.jpg 275w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odetta-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Woody Guthrie: Pastures of Plenty. Odetta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"475\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Micki-Grant-on-TV.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Micki-Grant-on-TV.png 475w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Micki-Grant-on-TV-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Micki Grant in a still from the <em>Stage Three  <\/em>telecast<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Marc Blitzstein: Joe Worker (<em>The Cradle Will Rock<\/em>). Micki Grant [from CBS-TV broadcast of <em>Stage Three<\/em>, November 1964]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"332\" data-id=\"4656\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Joe-Hill.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Joe-Hill.jpg 220w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Joe-Hill-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joe Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"937\" height=\"528\" data-id=\"4657\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pete-Seeger-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pete-Seeger-2.jpg 937w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pete-Seeger-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pete-Seeger-2-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 937px) 100vw, 937px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pete Seeger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Hill: The Preacher and the Slave [Pie in the Sky]. Pete Seeger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4658\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Alfred-Hayes-822x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Alfred-Hayes-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Alfred-Hayes-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Alfred-Hayes-768x957.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Alfred-Hayes.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alfred Hayes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"821\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4659\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Paul-Robeson2-821x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Paul-Robeson2-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Paul-Robeson2-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Paul-Robeson2-768x957.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Paul-Robeson2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paul Robeson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earl Robinson, Alfred Hayes: Joe Hill. Paul Robeson [1949 live performance for Scottish miners]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ballad-for-Americans.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ballad-for-Americans.jpg 600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ballad-for-Americans-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Earl Robinson, John Latouche: Ballad for Americans. Paul Robeson; Nathanael Shilkret, Victor Symphony Orchestra, American People&#8217;s Chorus<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Earl-Robinson-and-Paul-Robeson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Earl-Robinson-and-Paul-Robeson.jpg 576w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Earl-Robinson-and-Paul-Robeson-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Earl Robinson and Paul Robeson during the recording of the <em>Ballad for Americans<\/em><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dietrich-Blowin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dietrich-Blowin.jpg 600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dietrich-Blowin-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bob Dylan, Hans Bradtke (German words): Die Antwort weiss ganz allein der Wind [Blowin&#8217; in the Wind]. Marlene Dietrich; Burt Bacharach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cher-Jackson-Highway.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cher-Jackson-Highway.jpg 600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cher-Jackson-Highway-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cher-Jackson-Highway-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Stephen Stills: For What It&#8217;s Worth. Cher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CSNY-Ohio-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CSNY-Ohio-1.jpg 599w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CSNY-Ohio-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CSNY-Ohio-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Neil Young: Ohio. Crosby, Still, Nash &amp; Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Prince.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Prince.jpg 970w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Prince-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Prince-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Prince: Baltimore. Prince, featuring Eryn Allen Kane<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Barbra-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Barbra-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Barbra-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Barbra-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Barbra.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Jonas Myrin, Jay Landers, John Shanks, Barbra Streisand: Don&#8217;t Lie to Me. 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