Woody Guthrie
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He’s Woody Guthrie or Bruce Springsteen, whose songs made people suddenly realize that there are things going on about which we don’t know and ought to, and singing with the voice of the people not often represented in popular culture.
It was an awful, awful, awful disease
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The Cave Singers Come to Boise
on in the indie music scene, many bands continue to look backward, aping the sound and look of Dust Bowl Okies and all things Woody Guthrie. Despite its Neolithic name, one group going a different direction is . Formed from the ashes of post-punk icons Pretty 3:08 AM from Boise Weekly Read more »
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Music DVD+CD Review: Various Artists - "Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center"
the project is one of those events that lived up to the exclamation point in the title. The rich menu of performers in Woody Guthrie at 100. touches on the multifaceted music of Guthrie with a strong emphasis on his social commentary. For example, from the 6/18/13 from Seattle Post Intelligencer Read more »
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New York Daily News: WNET's Tribute To Woody Guthrie Captures The Flexibility Of His Music
Mellencamp, Rosanne Cash, Tom Morello, Del McCoury and others honor music legend at 'Woody Guthrie at 100: Live at the Kennedy Center' Back John Mellencamp and other music greats will pay tribute to folk legend Woody Guthrie. Title: Woody Guthrie at 100: Live from John Mellencap Official Site Read more »
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Billy Bragg: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR's new home. Bragg, along with Dobro player C.J. Hillman, also channeled the spirit of legendary American folksinger Woody Guthrie, with whom Bragg collaborated — albeit posthumously, in Guthrie's case — when he took Guthrie's unsung words and set them from NPR Read more »
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shake us all up, bruce
the nation next month. July will be officially Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen month in Ireland. The blue-jeaned heir to Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck will play five giant outdoor gigs on these shores in July: starting on the 16th at Thomond Park, Limerick; from Irish Independent Read more »
