Arlon Bennett's songs have been compared to the paintings of Norman Rockwell, and that is an accurate analogy; many of the folk-rock songs that Bennett has written could easily be described as musical vignettes that vividly depict American life, past and present. The East Coast singer/songwriter's subject matter has ranged from Vietnam veterans ("Bandanna Man") to the late sportscaster/baseball historian Bob Murphy (who passed away in 2004) to married couples who have managed to stay together for 40 or 50 years, and Bennett's songs -- much like Rockwell's paintings -- have often had a strong sense of Americana. Even when he sang about Indian civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi on his song "Be the Change," there was an element of Americana in his work: Bennett's song noted the parallels between Gandhi's struggles in India and the civil rights contributions of Rosa Parks in the United States.
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