Talking with the Taxman About Poetry

…releasing increasingly polished work, including Talking with the Taxman About Poetry (1986), featuring the Motown-inspired “Levi Stubbs’ Tears,” and Workers Playtime (1988). After the more dogmatic The Internationale (1990), his songwriting resumed its characteristic blend of simple, poetic lyrics and evocative melodies, conveyed by Bragg’s emotive Cockney-inflected voice, on Don’t…