Tag Archive | 1930s
Woody Guthrie at 100
Saturday would have been Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday (thanks to Carl for blogging about this already). Woody Guthrie is one of my favourite singers, and surely one of the greatest ever songwriters as well as a great American radical. As a wordsmith, he is up there with Bob Dylan (whose whole oeuvre is un-imaginable without […]
The man whose machine killed fascists: Woody Guthrie is 100
Roger Ballenger is a State Senator whose district includes Okemah, from where Woody Guthrie hailed. He told the Ventura County Star of Guthrie that his: popularity rose, as many do, after he passed away … He would be seen as an extreme left political thinker, I’m sure The Republican Steve Kouplin went as far as to say: A lot of […]
Bob's Beats 