World Wide Rebel Songs

World Wide Rebel Songs
Studio album by The Nightwatchman
Released August 29, 2011
Recorded May–June 2011 at Veritas Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Genre Folk rock, anti-folk, protest music, folk punk
Length 49:54
Label New West
Producer Tom Morello
The Nightwatchman chronology

Union Town
(2011)		 World Wide Rebel Songs
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Rolling Stone [1]
Slant Magazine [2]
Spin (5/10)[3]

World Wide Rebel Songs is the third full-length studio album by The Nightwatchman, the alter ego of Tom Morello. It was released on August 30, 2011, through Morello's new label New West Records, and like his previous release Union Town, was self-produced.

The album features fellow Street Sweeper Social Club members Carl Restivo and Eric Gardner on guitar and drums, respectively, as well as SSSC bassist Dave Gibbs on backing vocals.

The album's cover is an homage to the cover image on protest singer Phil Ochs' Gunfight at Carnegie Hall.[4]

Critical Response

The album has received mixed reviews. Spin gave it a score of 5/10, calling it, "a Dylan/Guthrie/Seeger/Bragg love letter that fearlessly tangoes betwixt the admirable and the absurd. Only the electric 'It Begins Tonight,' righteous of riff and bonkers of solo, plays to his strengths; the rest is like watching Michael Jordan bat .235 in Birmingham."[3]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine"   3:31
2. "The Dogs of Tijuana"   3:28
3. "It Begins Tonight"   3:01
4. "Save the Hammer for the Man" (feat. Ben Harper) 5:17
5. "The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse"   4:36
6. "Speak and Make Lightning"   3:56
7. "Facing Mount Kenya"   4:03
8. "The Whirlwind"   3:59
9. "Stray Bullets"   4:03
10. "Branding Iron"   3:51
11. "World Wide Rebel Songs"   3:03
12. "God Help Us All"   3:58
13. "Union Town"   3:09

Personnel

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