Consumer Guide Album

Stop the War: Vietnam Through the Eyes of Black America 1965-1974 [Kent, 2021]
Marvin Gaye and the Impressions emerge nearly as generic as obscurities like Jimmy Hughes and Artie Golden while weirdnesses where a GI's draft-dodging pals steal his stuff and a preacher recounts an even less lucky GI's unsegregated burial are not to be missed (the Staple Singers, "John Brown"; Joe Medwick, "Letter to a Buddie"; Dr William Truly Jr, "[The Two Wars of] Old Black Joe"; Chairmen of the Board, "Men Are Getting Scarce") ***