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After breaking that record in the park last night to "This Land Is Your Land", I thought to myself who is this Woody Guthrie guy any how. I figured he was some G rated old timer, but after doing a bit of research I find he was a progressive, politcal folk singer who was even "blacklisted" in the 1940's... 
WOODY SEZ...
"There's a feeling in music and it carries you back down the road you have traveled and makes you travel it again. Sometimes when I hear music I think back over my days - and a feeling that is fifty-fifty joy and pain swells like clouds taking all kinds of shapes in my mind.
Music is in all the sounds of nature and there never was a sound that was not music - the splash of an alligator, the rain dripping on dry leaves, the whistle of a train, a long and lonesome train whistling down, a truck horn blowing at a street corner speaker - kids squawling along the streets - the silent wail of wind and sky caressing the breasts of the desert.
Life is this sound, and since creation has been a song. And there is no real trick of creating words to set to music, once you realize that the word is the music and the people are the song." - Source: Excerpts, 1942 datebook, Pastures of Plenty, pg 105
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Papa Pete Seegar, Leadbelly, Sonny and Cisco were on the ground floor of tell it from the mountain, socially aware American folk music.
Woody went that extra mile.
You might say he's the link between Will Rogers and Bob Dylan.
Someone was asking on a Mog post a while back whether any singer songwriter prior to Bob Dylan had written anything in that surreal poetic sense.
Unless you count "Strange And Bitter Fruit" (Billie Holiday), then I reckon Guthrie's the man.
Great quote, great photo of his "killing machine", and tell me, is this a drug song or vernacular for "check me out"?
Good Q, i guess it's all about your personal perception of it. I know there were plenty of substances you could "whiff" leagally back in those days, I think snuff was pretty popular back then too. That's one to ponder, a?
"Take a Whiff on Me" is an American folk song, with references to the use of cocaine. It is also known as "Cocaine Habit Blues".
Recorded initially by Leadbelly, Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie,
later versions include The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Jerry Garcia (before he was in the Grateful Dead), White Stripes
guthrie is amazing, thanks for the brilliant quote.
someone told me that when American kids sang 'this land is your land' in schools, they werent given the full version because it was too political...probably more like too red.