Robb Johnson

During an era when political singer/songwriters seem virtually extinct, Robb Johnson has flown the flag with biting songs and satire, railing against the evils of capitalism, oppression, greed, and injustice wherever he can find it. Yet, charged and angry as his music has often been, it's invariably laced with as much wit and humor as polemics, and is in any case merely one feature -- though the most pronounced -- of his work. A huge fan of Jacques Brel, he virtually invented a new English chanson genre, made a double concept album about his grandfather's role in World War I a...