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Copper Kettle, sung by Joan Baez

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The working class Americans who moved west had no way to ship their corn to market, so they distilled it into whiskey. But the big distillers in the east, including George Washington eventually, sent in the army to tax them out of existence and competition. This song voices their sly and determined defiance.

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