The old rocker who owns the local music store has a t-shirt on display that reads: 鈥淲hen words fail ... music speaks.鈥 One could also say that when speech fails, David Rovics sings.
As Wally Brooker recently noted about the US folk singer: 鈥淲hat's striking about Rovics is his ability to bring first-hand reports of local struggles from around the world to each community that he visits.鈥