The folk singer Billy Bragg enjoys great popularity in England as a politically committed musician, who shows himself in his lyrics a champion of 'socialism of the heart', as the title of one of his most beautiful songs is. In his work he translates his political ideas into personal and catchy pop songs. After two beautiful records with the country rock group , it is time for an album with his
… regular backing group The Blokes. Bragg borrowed the title England, Half English from the essayist Colin MacInness, who in 1961 - following the rise of the English rock star - wrote an article of the same name about the English identity after the Second World War. With this record Bragg wanted to enter into a discussion about the English identity with critics of the multicultural society, a subject that should also appeal to the imagination in the Netherlands. Apart from that, there are a lot of nice pop songs to be heard on this album, which are provided with a warm sound by pub rockers The Blokes. (MS)more
