Revolutionary thought of the day:
"I think real folk stuff scares most of the boys around Wahsington. A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it, or it could be whose hungry and where their mouth is, or whose out of work and where the job is or whose broke and where the money is or whose carrying a gun and where the peace is -- that's folk lore and folks made it up because they seen that the politicans couldn't find nothing to fix or nobody to feed or give a job of work."
Woody Guthrie, in a 1940 letter to Alan Lomax, quoted in Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
4 comments:
Just a thank you note for the Guthrie stuff, so pertinent so long after his death.
Danneau, thank you for this! So true.
I am reading Joe Klein's biography of Woody in advance of visiting the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa in the spring -- part of a music/history/baseball trip we have planned.
Now that's a trip I, for one, look forward to reading about in these here pixel spaces!
(P.S. - the one time I felt like I had actually accomplished something significant on the (old) Twittmachine was the day that the Guthrie Ctr. followed on)
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Hey, that's a memorable moment! Almost worth being on Twitter for that.
Yeah, this is a helluva trip coming up: Woody Guthrie Center, Bob Dylan Center, Negro Leagues Museum, Jazz Museum, 2 baseball games in parks we've never been to (KC and St. Louis), and the Cahokia mounds.
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