A lot of music about the Vietnam War, especially protest songs, dropped in the 1960s and early 1970s. Much of that music can be found in the folk genre. However, there are also quite a few classic ...

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NEW YORK(AP) — “Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and ...

John Fogerty spent just 20 minutes writing "Fortunate Son," the Creedence Clearwater Revival classic inspired by Americans' growing frustration with the Vietnam War. Rather than protesting the ...

We know it as one of the biggest rock songs ever, but this Creedence Clearwater Revival track was actually written as a war protest song. When CCR frontman John Fogerty sat down to work on the 1969 ...

Protest music really wouldn't be what it is today without the efforts made by Bob Dylan and the rest of the folk scene during the early '60s. The music of the era really helped advance a lot of the ...

Fogerty was inspired to write "Fortunate Son" after reading about David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served in the U.S. Naval Reserve rather than being deployed to ...

Songs about the Vietnam War, released during the war period in the 1960s and 1970s, usually fall under folk rock, pure folk, or rock music. However, there were a few blues and blues-rock songs back in ...