![]() The Lord Is In This Place – Fairport Conventionįor What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfieldīad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revivalīridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel Waist Deep in the Big Muddy – Pete Seeger The Sounds of Silence – Simon & GarfunkelĪre You Experienced? – Jimi Hendrix Experience One is the original music created by Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor. The official Vietnam War soundtrack actually comes in two packages, which will be released Friday. It’s just that, as Burns says, Vietnam is a hydra. Burns and Novick picked the music that tells their story, as Alex Strachan recounts very nicely in another tvworthwatching piece. This alternative soundtrack does not, it should be stressed, mean The Vietnam War soundtrack gets it wrong or misses the mark. What the rest of us talked about, someone sang about. You’d hear Phil Ochs calling the war a blind, immoral exercise in American arrogance and Ernest Tubb calling it a litmus test for America’s commitment to freedom. On the other side, you’d hear Country Joe MacDonald (top) singing, “Be the first one on your block / To have your boy come home in a box.” (“I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag”, 1965.) ![]() You’d hear Stonewall Jackson singing, “The Minutemen are turning in their graves” over war protesters. ![]()
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