| World Wide Rebel Songs | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | The Nightwatchman |
| Cover: | Nightwatchman_WWRS.jpg |
| Released: | August 29, 2011 |
| Recorded: | May - June 2011 at Veritas Studios, Los Angeles, CA |
| Genre: | Folk rock, anti-folk, protest music, folk punk |
| Length: | 49:54 |
| Label: | New West |
| Producer: | Tom Morello |
World Wide Rebel Songs is the third full-length studio album by The Nightwatchman, the alter ego of Tom Morello. It was released on August 29, 2011, through Morello's new label New West Records, and like his previous release Union Town, was self-produced.
The album features fellow Street Sweeper Social Club members Carl Restivo and Eric Gardner on guitar and drums, respectively, as well as SSSC bassist Dave Gibbs on backing vocals.
The album's cover is a homage to the cover image on protest singer Phil Ochs' Gunfight at Carnegie Hall.[1]
Spin gave it a score of 5/10, calling it, "a Dylan/Guthrie/Seeger/Bragg love letter that fearlessly tangoes betwixt the admirable and the absurd. Only the electric 'It Begins Tonight,' righteous of riff and bonkers of solo, plays to his strengths; the rest is like watching Michael Jordan bat .235 in Birmingham."