I've never understood why fans and critics will, on occasion, take offense with a singer's audacity to take a stand. Why should political questions of poverty, justice, equality and elections be left only to politicians and media moguls? The world is wiser for the artists we've listened to so far on this Top 100 Political Music Countdown. The world needs Nina Simone.
Ain't Got No - I Got Life was on an album released three days after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King.
