Last night BBC Radio broadcast parts of Bruce's performance at St. Luke's Church in London. A 20-minute video has also been released and can be found here. You get three songs: "John Henry", "Mrs. McGrath", and "Jacob's Ladder". Now, if that clip doesn't give you goose bumps and make you tap your feet on the floor, I don't think anything will. My personal favorite here is "Mrs. McGrath". It's chilling and majestic in a way that only Bruce can make it. For my money it's ten times more effective in its anti-war message than "War", which I always found to be a bit on the corny side. It's just too simplistic and rams the message down your throat. "Mrs. McGrath" tells a story and leaves it to the listener to draw the conclusion. Just as Bruce himself would have done. Brilliant.

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