Does anyone here like Woody Guthrie?

[dballer]

Woody Guthrie.. you like him?

 

[Doktor Bollix]

Who?

 

[dballer]

forget it...

 

[Kali]

Do you know who Ani Difranco is? She sings about him on one of her newer cds. She is more of the grandaughter of "radical" folk singers.

 

[dballer]

of course I know who she is!!! Do you like her???

 

[Madd Hatter]

I was gonna say, the more appropriate question here would probably be "Does anybody even know who he is?"

Anyway, I don't know if Ani Difranco is worth a flying rat's ass (I suspect not), but w/o Woody Guthrie, there would likely be no Bob Dylan. So for that, I say "the guy couldn't have been that bad."

There's a "song" (poem more like it) on The Bootleg Series "Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie"

That's my contribution to this thread. Oh, and Dylan rocks!

 

[dballer]

I was gonna say, the more appropriate question here would probably be "Does anybody even know who he is?"

Anyway, I don't know if Ani Difranco is worth a flying rat's ass (I suspect not), but w/o Woody Guthrie, there would likely be no Bob Dylan. So for that, I say "the guy couldn't have been that bad."

There's a "song" (poem more like it) on The Bootleg Series "Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie"

That's my contribution to this thread. Oh, and Dylan rocks!

Do you like Wilco???

 

[polarpixie]

Anyway, I don't know if Ani Difranco is worth a flying rat's ass (I suspect not), but w/o Woody Guthrie, there would likely be no Bob Dylan. So for that, I say "the guy couldn't have been that bad."

hell yea, she is. that girl is pure talent. She's a tall drink of water on a hot summer day compared to *GAG* Britney or any over-manicured mainstream female artists for that matter.

Oh, and Dylan rocks!

hell yea!


Wilco rocks. I'm not familiar with Woody Guthrie either, but if he had any influence on Bob then he must be something quite great.

 

[big4life]

For those who are interested in learning more about Guthrie.

http://www.woodyguthrie.org/biography.htm

 

[polarpixie]

For those who are interested in learning more about Guthrie.

http://www.woodyguthrie.org/biography.htm

He's a cutie. In a Howdy Doody sense. I see Billy Bragg's name mentioned, he's another talented one.

 

[Obnoxious White Guy]

i like a lot of folk/ alt.country...

lucinda williams
nancy griffith
kelly willis
john prine
arlo and woody
paul westerburg
billy bragg
wilco
whiskeytown
nine pound hammer

dballer actually has some good taste in music, check out the bimonthly "no depression"...they cover the scene real well..

 

[dballer]

OWG... check out Will Oldham.. or Palace... kinda off beat, but awesome.

Billy Bragg, Neil Young... there are soo many good players out there. You just gotta sift through the crap.

also.. Mary Lou Lord.

 

[Obnoxious White Guy]

kickass, seabass!

 

[musclebrains]

Guthrie was a socialist and the main performer at rallies of the Communist Party of the USA, just in case you didn't know.

His principal heir was Pete Seeger, whom my mama use to take me to hear frequently, and Bob Dylan, of course. Dylan perfomed a lot of Guthrie's songs until he switched from acoustic to electric guitar. Alan Lomax, the great American impressario of folk music, died two or three weeks ago, and was Guthrie's big promoter.

I love the Wilco recordings of the unpublished Guthrie lyrics.

 

[dballer]

Guthrie was a socialist and the main performer at rallies of the Communist Party of the USA, just in case you didn't know.

His principal heir was Pete Seeger, whom my mama use to take me to hear frequently, and Bob Dylan, of course. Dylan perfomed a lot of Guthrie's songs until he switched from acoustic to electric guitar. Alan Lomax, the great American impressario of folk music, died two or three weeks ago, and was Guthrie's big promoter.

I love the Wilco recordings of the unpublished Guthrie lyrics.

yeah.. I am familiar with his politics. I do not agree.. but I do like his music. I plan on painting "This machine kills commies" on my gutiar.

If you like the Wilco recordings.. "Remember the mountain bed" is my personal favorite... see if you can find the live Jeff Tweedy. I forget the date of this recording.. but it is a bootleg. I got it. It is not a store bought thing.. but if you really like the Wilco and the Billy Bragg stuff... I can tell you where to get more of this stuff.. you gotta download a program kinda like Morpheus to get them. But it is all live shows. TONS of Garcia, Dead, Wilco, Neil Young, Pink Floyd... even some live Hendrix that is hard to find.

None of this shit you can buy in stores.. if anyone is into this... drop me a PM and I will hook you up.

also.. if anyone wants to trade music let me know. I have 3200 cd's and 60 gigs of MP3's.