Eric Burdon poses with his album 'Til Your River Runs Dry' at J&R Music World in New York City.
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......... but don't think he'll hesitate to express a strongly held opinion.
"I don't know if I have the strength to rabble-rouse today, but I'll speak up and get involved," Burdon, 71, tells Rolling Stone with a dry chuckle. "I feel it's up to the individual to do that, and shame on the individual who doesn't do that."
Burdon does plenty of it on 'Til Your River Runs Dry, his first full album of new material since 2006, which follows an EP he recorded last fall with the Greenhornes and Brendan Benson. In a voice that still resonates with earthy power, the ex-Animals and War leader sings about conserving a precious resource on "Water," New Orleans' struggle to recover after Hurricane Katrina on "River Is Rising" and recalls the "radical student" he used to be on "Old Habits Die Hard," a perspective he filters through the modern lens of the Arab Spring protests in the Middle East.
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