Louisiana Red - AntiNuclear Blues (Germany, 1983)

This is the title track on Louisiana Red's "Antinuclear Blues," an album made in the spa town of Bad Windungen in February, 1983 after splitting with his second wife, folksinger Odetta, and moving to Hanover, FDR. Although he had been recording for 20 years at this point, Red struggled to have his material needs met in a predatory American music industry. He spent the rest of his life in Germany where his talents were more appreciated and his songs continued to be converted into shiny plastic discs at a steady pace.
He is joined here by Gerhard Engbarth on guitar & liner notes. Quoting Herr Engbarth's text: "[L]isten to Red's political comments in "We Don't Need Nuclear Power (Anti-Nuclear Blues)." In this Blues, Red proves that he really is one of the best of the few bluesmen who continue the old tradition of the topical song. In those days, the itinerant bluessinger played an important role of spreading all kinds of news and novelties around. He was newspaper, radio, movie, theatre, TV all in one person. The bluessinger first named the new facts then commented on them."
"All that nasty
chemicals in the air
China Syndrome
going everywhere."