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In this broadcast, listeners will travel back to the days leading up to the 1980 presidential election, when Neil Young’s Hawks & Doves was released to a country that seemed to be “Comin’ Apart at Every Nail.” Host Evan McCormick will explore how Young’s country-rock album captured the anxieties underlying the Carter/Reagan contest in 1980 — inflation, an energy crisis, the threat of war — as well as malaise in the music industry. Plus an exploration of other songs that have asked piercing questions about America’s direction at similar moments in history, and the relevance of the record at this political moment in 2022.