When I learned Bernie Sanders had recorded a folk album, I tried to find some songs from it. Most of them were awful, but it introduced me to a protest song I hadn't heard before and really like. Pete Seeger's "Banks of Marble."
The late Merle Haggard wrote a pro-Hillary song in 2008 which I couldn't find anywhere online this spring, and fittingly still can't find.
Moving on to the general, I'll start with Richard Thompson's "Fergus Laing," which he wrote about a property developer who very definitely isn't Donald Trump, at least not if America's litigation-happy president-elect is asking.
I was initially so sure I would be playing the TMBG song "Your Racist Friend" on election night as I watched the Republicans lose the Senate and tear themselves to pieces.
Jay and the Americans' "Only in America" became morbidly fascinating as I became increasingly convinced of the plausibility of a Trump win.
This is the TMBG song I ended up playing over and over on election night instead.
I felt a bit of Schadenfreude, still do, at the fact that I was correct at how terrible a candidate Clinton was, something Democrats seemed unable to admit.
Billy Joe's "Georgia on Fast Train" I think explains how a lot of Trump supporters feel.
"Help Save the Youth of America" is a song Billy Bragg wrote about the apathy of Gen X. For my generation I think it should be written as "Help the Youth Save America."
How about ya'll? Any songs that seemed particularly relevant this cycle?