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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "widdershins" as "in a left-handed, wrong, or contrary direction, " and it's not hard to feel that word applies to plenty that's going on in America in the year 2018. It certainly seems Grant-Lee Phillips feels that way, but he's greeting a chaotic time with hope, defiance, and a heart full of rock & roll on the album Widdershins. In the album's first song, "Walk in Circles, " Phillips sings, "I'd rather go down fighting for the water/Than start another war for oil/Go find another way to fill the coffers, " and it's just one of several tunes where he takes a stand against fascism and greed, and in favor of a better world for us all. But even though Widdershins is clearly informed by what's at stake in Trump-era America, this isn't a set of cookie-cutter protest songs.