Last night Sarah and I caught The Nightwatchman at the House of Blue's Parish Room in the French Quarter. That is, the folk-guitar solo act alter ego of Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and more recently Audioslave. It was a fantastic show in many ways. The concept itself is great. Tom is not just a celebrity, but one who has used his success to benefit others, working hard to support the working class, civil liberties, and all who would be oppressed under any guise. At many of the protests and rallies he attended he realized that the songs sung were from the 60s and 70s, that there were no consciousness aware singable songs railing against the infinite varieties of social oppression that were so ubiquitous in those times. He wanted to change that. And perhaps the world a little. And so he wrote modern tales of political leftism, that dirty word in modern times, which conservatives have posed as a negative, rather than someone who is brave enough to fight for truth at any cost.

The Nightwatchman, as he calls himself now, was not only a great act musically, but the kind of person that inspires us all to be acts of change. And now I have one more album that I can listen to periodically and remind myself of my duty to make the world a better place. If not for myself, than for all those who are less fortunate than me. He reminds us that none of us have a right to complain about anything to which we have not actively struggled against.