David Rovics

Reviews

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AcousticMusic.com - Review of Return, 2006

Humblog - Longer version of an article by Bob Doran that appeared in the North Coast Journal, February 2006

BongoBoy.com - Review of IMC fundraiser in Bethel, Connecticut, December 2005

The Socialist Worker - David Rovics: in the service of the movement, November 2005

An-Najah University - Nablus, Occupied Palestine, September 2005

The Morning Star - A troubadour for this generation, Britain, August 2005

Mountain Xpress - Better than Bob, Asheville, North Carolina, August 2005

Punk Rock Academy - Review of Behind the Barricades: The Best of David Rovics, January 2005

The Underview - University of Wyoming concert review, October 2004

Mote Magazine - Review of Songs for Mahmud, August 2004

Rambles - Review of Return, July 2004

The Justice - Brandeis University, March 2004

Asheville Global Report - A Voice of Resistance, Fall 2003

Green Left - Review of Return and Hang A Flag In The Window, October 2003

Islam Online - 'Jenin': A Musical Tribute, January 2003

Green Left - Uncompromising Passion for the Truth, Review of Living In These Times, January 2002

Flagstaff Tea Party - David Rovics Sings of Social Significance, February 2002

The Columbia Gypsy - Review of Living In These Times, 2001

FolkWorld - Review of Living In These Times, 2001

Sing Out! - Review of Live at Club Passim, Spring 2001

The University of Chicago Free Press - April 1999

Quotes

"No folkie on today's scene more fully grasps both the lessons of history and the need to be on the ground, with the people, facing down the legionnaires of corporatism and global hegemony."
Mountain Xpress, Asheville, North Carolina

"It has been a pleasure to share a stage with David Rovics, whose words and music speak powerfully and lyrically to the world around us. An artist with a social conscience is to be cherished."
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

"David Rovics is the musical version of Democracy Now!"
Amy Goodman, host, Democracy Now!

"[David Rovics] is a guy George W. Bush would probably like to clamp in chains at Guantanamo Bay -- the last American protest singer (or so it seems)... In these days of ongoing neo-conservatism he carries the torch of dissent and protest -- in fact if the great Phil Ochs were to come back from the dead tonight he'd probably be hailed as the new David Rovics."
Andy Kershaw, BBC Radio 3

"David Rovics is in the tradition of Guthrie, Seegar and Dylan. He tells the stories of our time with insight, grace and musicality. And you can't beat his sense of solidarity and radical politics. Bards like these celebrate us as we should celebrate them."
David Barsamian, host, Alternative Radio

"For political commentary in the tradition of Holly Near, Phil Ochs or Charlie King, you should check out Rovics, who has his fist on the pulse of intervention through music."
Sing Out! Vol. 45 #1, Spring 2001 -- read entire review

"Phil Ochs is not dead. He's reincarnated in the body of David Rovics."
Folkworld Magazine

"From 'Minimum Wage Strike' to 'Henry Ford Was A Fascist,' the politics are spot on, and the songs rousing, rebellious, and downright rocking... Inspiring, and inspired... For anyone despairing of finding the next generation, worry no more!"
AK Press

"If the key to building a mass movement is to make it 'irresistible,' David is opening the flood gates."
Medea Benjamin, Founding Director, Global Exchange

"...gut-wrenchingly beautiful lyrics... [I'm] in awe...with such wonder at your absolute ability to mentally stand inside this tragedy of such enormity and translate it with such soul-searing love, understanding and reality."
Felicity Arbuthnot, journalist, regular contributor to the Independent (UK), RTE (Ireland), the Toronto Star (Canada), etc., covering Iraq and other issues

"In that Wobbly tradition of sharp social commentary, David is a master."
The Industrial Worker

"David Rovics' music gives life and hope in the struggle for peace and justice. He is an inspiration."
Reverend Roy Bourgeois, SOA Watch

"David Rovics is the heir to Phil Ochs."
Greg Artzner of the musical duo, Magpie

"...the Pete Seeger of his time."
The Hartford Advocate

"Dave is the genuine article - activist singer songwriter in the Phil Ochs mold with a driving guitar and hard-hitting songs for hard hit people. He's an agit prop performer - lot's of provocative and satirical songs with surprising, breath taking twists - and he writes more than anybody I know. I don't know how he does it all because he is on the front lines at every street action you can think of from Gaza to Seattle, Quebec to Rio. No one does it better."
Charlie King

"David Rovics says the things about America that everyone else is thinking."
Attila the Stockbroker

"We Just Want the World is stocked with original, catchy folk anthems that tell our stories with humor and melancholy... Consider spreading our stories by bringing him to your college or local coffeehouse."
The Earth First! Journal

"Storysinger with a guitar, Rovics has many thought-provoking glimpses into remote pockets of the world not often exposed. A great songwriter."
Victory Music Review

"...a fine songwriter and a good activist."
Utah Phillips

"Warning: For those of you who wish to do none of the following, this release will make you think, laugh, seethe, cry and wonder."
Kevin McCarthy, Kevin's Celtic and Folk Music CD Reviews

"...Listen to David Rovics."
Pete Seeger

"OK, this is the first time I am ever going to review folk music in Retrogression, and if I ever find other stuff this good, it won't be the last."
David Grenier, Retrogression, "A Journal of Music and Revolution"

"If you like Robert Hoyt or Dave Lippman, you'll like David Rovics. Funny, passionate, irreverant and smart. You won't be disappointed!"
Andy Caffrey, Earth First! Media Center

"Few musicians bring authentic sensibilities to the working class as David Rovics does."
Anne Feeney

"Folksinger Dave Rovics strums his guitar in the tradition of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie with up-to-date lyrics that deal with police brutality, fake history, current demonstration of American imperialism, and other conscious material. The attraction of Rovics' music lies in the contrast between his super-raw lyrical exposure of the American Lie and his soft folksy tunes..."
BLU Magazine

"The highlight of the afternoon for me was the American singer David Rovics...a great gale of invigorating fresh air from across the Atlantic... He is carrying on the long tradition of musical dissent to come out of America... I found his songs deeply moving, a committed campaigner expressing his concerns in unforgettable words and music around the world... We were privileged to hear this dedicated and talented young man in Presteigne where he received an enthusiastic reception."
Betty Cotton, The Mid-Wales Journal, Wales (UK)

"David Rovics ... is a sho-nuff song-writing, guitar-playing folksinger in the tradition."
Dennis O'Neil, Forward Motion magazine

"The past lives in David Rovics' songs and performances. More important -- so does the future."
Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike! And Global Village or Global Pillage

"His performance was laced with passion. With just his voice and guitar he provoked laughter, tears and cheers from the audience."
Yavapai College Rough Writer, Prescott, Arizona

"One of the most thoughtful singers in progressive America."
Gerard Colby author, Thy Will Be Done -- The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

"In the Guthrie-Ochs tradition..."
Downtown Aquarian Weekly

"...Never boring, [he brings] musicality to all of the songs."
Northeast Performer

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