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 "right t
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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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It's the day after. These are some words written by Woody Guthrie.They never felt so good.Enjoy..... This land is your land, this land is my landFrom California, to the New York IslandFrom the redwood forest, to the gulf stream watersThis land was made for you and meAs I was walking a ribbon of highwayI saw above me an endless skywayI saw below me a golden valleyThis land was made for you and ...
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= This is the final post on the Old Blue Bus. =A New Year is upon us. The fresh calendar on the wall holds promise for a better year. Here on the Bus, the new year brings a long awaited change. In the coming weeks we will be moving to our new homestead. Our new home and acreage is located on a hilltop, surrounded by hardwood forest and just a quarter mile off the paved road. Several acres are ...
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I remember summer last year pretty well. It was a Tuesday. Now that there has been almost five full days of sun in Scotland, it has started to rain. Go figure, eh?So I'm stuck inside now, surrounded by bottles of sun cream and cold cans of pear cider. Oh, and I'm listening to Woody Guthrie.Asch Recordings Volume 1 was upped to deekmedia a few days ago and I liked it so much that I went out an...
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I'm currently reading journalist Joe Klein's Woody Guthrie biography, an unbelievably in-depth and historically detailed account of the songwriter's life. While taking a break from the book, I looked up a few of Woody's songs and found "Bad Lee Brown (Cocaine Blues)" which I immediately realized was also one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs—"Cocaine Blues"—famously performed live at Folsom Pri
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