You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show a conversation with Bethany

Konstantino of Best Coast about how sobriety has impacted her music and we're

going to hear about the song that got Clay Frankel of the Chicago band Twin Peaks

to fall in love with music. But first, songs about history.

Tin soldiers and mixons coming. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming for dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it. Ohio. on the door. What if you do her and find her dead on the ground.

How can you run when we know?

Greg, that of course is a little bit of the classic Crosby stills, Nash, and Young Song, Ohio.

This month marked the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, that horrific incident

that left four dead and nine injured in 1970.

Within weeks of that campus shooting, CSN and Y had produced, recorded.

Neil Young had written Ohio, one of the greatest protest

anthems of all time and it was out and in record stores soon on its way to the

top of the charts. We wanted to share some of our other favorite songs about historical people places and events and Mr.

Kott you were going to kick us off.

Yeah, Jim, when we started kicking this idea around the first song that popped into my head was by Gordon Lightfoot,

the wreck of the Edmon Fitzgerald.

That song came out in the mid-70s and it haunts me still.

I just think it's a incredibly well-written song with a haunting

arrangement. What it was was a song about the sinking of the SS Edman Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in November of

1975. Lightfoot read about it in a Newsweek article and was was moved by it.

What happened here? This freighter with a full cargo of iron

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