Women of Color Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
VIDEO: Woody Guthrie Singing 1913 Massacre 1913 Massacre by Woody Guthrie Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, Michigan in the copper country I’ll take you to a place called Italian Hall And the miners are having their big Christmas ball I’ll take you in a door and up a high stairs Singing and dancing is heard ev’rywhere I’ll let you [...]
Rock Turtleneck (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Rock Turtleneck Train Week: Day Two Being an acolyte of Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, 'tis no surprise that Bob Dylan also worked in the mileu of the train song. In fact, his 1962 debut Bob Dylan contained a track called "Freight Train Blues": But his most celebrated train song is easily "It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" from his towering masterpiece Highway...
The Concert Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
In honor of this election year, I am looking back at the 25 greatest protest songs of all time. I’m starting with No. 25 and working my way up. Note: Each artist was only eligible to have one song make the list. To read past entries on this list, click here . 5, “This Land is Your Land,” Woody Guthrie (1951) Guthrie reportedly didn’t think much of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America,”...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
DOWNLOAD: Woody Guthrie - Hanukkah Dance [Alternate Take] (1:24) DOWNLOAD: Yo La Tengo - I Feel Like Going Home (live on KCMP) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: One on One with Jackie Hoffman (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Songs in the key of Hanukkah - Dreidel...
Winorama (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
I went to see Billy Bragg in concert at the Enmore Theatre a few years ago and he was playing quite a few (too many) Woody Guthrie covers rather than concentrating on his classic material - which is really why we were all there. Anyway, he announced “Here’s another Woody Guthrie number for you” and [...]
Og så alligevel... (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Recently, I read Seth Godin’s new book Tribes. It is a short clever book full of insights on what it means to build and lead a tribe. Godin’s main argument is borrowed from one of Hugh McLeod’s one-liners: Or, as Woody Guthrie put it: “Basically, man is a hoping machine.” As a marketing guru, Godin’s spin on [...]
