I don't know if the new Michael Moore movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, is going to have a soundtrack album or not. But I saw a screening last night and the film is spectacular. It'll be released October 2. I reviewed it at DownWithTyranny this afternoon. What I didn't mention, though, is that the film is chock full of great music, put together by Jeff Gibbs. The movie starts with scenes from ba...
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wilco has recorded a cover of the woody guthrie song "jolly banker" and are offering it for download on their website. there are a couple of suggested donation levels - it's a sliding scale depending on level of involvement in the financial crisis, and all proceeds go directly to the woody guthrie foundation - but if you're broke and out of work and generally down on your luck, well, in true wo...
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Check it out, how offten does an oppertunity like this come about? Uh pretty much once in a life time, right? so here is what you gotta do:Bring your guitar down to Todos Santos Park in Concord, CA to attempt to break the Guinness Book Record of 1,802 for Largest Guitar Ensemble! 07/01/2008 We'll be playing "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie.Be there by 6:30 and the first 2,000 to regist...
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Yesterday Down With Tyranny's Blue America candidate was Pennsylvania's progressive Democrat Sam Bennett of Allentown. The night before I asked her to guest host the Late Night Music Club at Crooks & Liars. Her selection was "This Land Is Our Land" and although her manager suggested we use the updated and popular Bruce Springsteen version, which Sam also likes, she re-iterated to me that it was...
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For the first time, a live concert recording of Woody Guthrie can be heard as the Woody Guthrie Foundation, under license to Woody Guthrie Publications Inc, released the never-before-heard Guthrie concert which took place in December, 1949 at the YM-YWHA's Fuld Hall in Newark, New Jersey.According to Woody Guthrie Foundation: "with the help of many talented recording engineers, the Foundation p...
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It's no replacement for The Asch Recordings, but the sound quality is revelatory. And besides, it's Woody Guthrie.It's impossible to imagine the direction American roots music would've taken without Woody Guthrie. As a songwriter and interpreter, his presence looms over this country's music, including rock 'n' roll. The scope of his repertoire is unparalleled, and the very spirit of Guthrie's m...
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This Stethoscope Kills Fascists Today the doctors and nursemaids picked up Woody Guthrie’s My Dusty Road - a Rounder Records released 4 disc, 54-song box set filled with dose after dose of magic medicine from the dustiest of the dust bowlers. A stockpile of antique treasures - collections of polished and unreleased tracks from a six-day 1940s session that would of had roses growing through the .
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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 ...
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...Guthrie album! Apologies for the seventh grade boner joke. And now, on to the review!When Woody Guthrie was dying, Bob Dylan used to go to his hospital room and play for him. Dylan has said he was essentially a living Woody Guthrie jukebox at that time. This probably tells you everything you need to know about Woody Guthrie's influence on not only folk music (Pete Seeger was another disc...
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will be my last on here. I'm sorry, but the ill-informed tendentious bigotry of another poster, who appears utterly unable to accept that his position is factually incorrect, and can, apparently without any trace of irony use the words "the natural human abhorrence for reggae music", indicates a nasty racist undertone, with which I feel wholly uncomfortable. And before anybody raises the "righ...
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For the first time, a live concert recording of Woody Guthrie can be heard as the Woody Guthrie Foundation, under license to Woody Guthrie Publications Inc, released the never-before-heard Guthrie concert which took place in December, 1949 at the YM-YWHA's Fuld Hall in Newark, New Jersey.According to Woody Guthrie Foundation: "with the help of many talented recording engineers, the Foundation p...
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I don't know if the new Michael Moore movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, is going to have a soundtrack album or not. But I saw a screening last night and the film is spectacular. It'll be released October 2. I reviewed it at DownWithTyranny this afternoon. What I didn't mention, though, is that the film is chock full of great music, put together by Jeff Gibbs. The movie starts with scenes from ba...
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...Guthrie album! Apologies for the seventh grade boner joke. And now, on to the review!When Woody Guthrie was dying, Bob Dylan used to go to his hospital room and play for him. Dylan has said he was essentially a living Woody Guthrie jukebox at that time. This probably tells you everything you need to know about Woody Guthrie's influence on not only folk music (Pete Seeger was another disc...
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Characteristically, Woody's version sees a proliferation of verses. These posts, by the by, in no way suggest or condone trafficking or indulging in unlawful substances. My purposes, on the contrary, are strictly educational and cultural-historical.
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