I’ve been obsessed with Woody and this iconic guitar the last month or so. As a musician and someone that is passionately opposed to what is happening, it’s a great symbol to hold onto.
Don't know if this link works but this is a version of "Vigilante Man", from 2018. Friday Night Jam Chicago. In the tradition of folk music it is built over time. One verse was written by Ry Cooder, the next by Glen Hansard and the other by me.
“Old Man Trump” is a song written by Woody Guthrie in 1954 about the racist housing practices of his landlord, Fred Trump, the father of Donald Trump.
In the song, Guthrie laments that he and his wife were forced to raise their children in an environment of racial hate.
When you grow up singing "Roll on Columbia", you grow up loving Woody Guthrie. Reading & watching a movie about him as an adult made me, a lover of labor unions, appreciate him even more.
People nowadays don't realize just how important protest songs were to the Antiwar protests during the 60s and 70s. Good music moves the soul just as much as books can drive the mind.
I discovered him a few months ago. Randomly came across his Walmart song one morning and listened to him the rest of the afternoon. Really great stuff.
We are here as care givers for my husbands grandparents. Grandma passed last year and when grandpa passed we are out of here and hopefully out of the country.
#guitar #revolution #strongertogether #musicsky
This land is your land, and this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me
ROAD TO RESISTANCE
Research.
Stand up. (Stand Together.)
Communicate.
Resist…
Protest & Advocate.
“Hold the Line”
Remain Peaceful, Safe and Orderly.
Respect.
Woody Guthrie's "Vigilante Man". second verse Ry Cooder, third Greg Hansard, 4th by me. 2018 Friday Night Jam Group Chicago.
Keep adding verses please. That's how folk music works. ie The melody of "This Land is Your Land" is "WhenThe Worlds on Fire". Singing our way through this Armageddon. 🎶
Modern Corporate Democrat guitar: "This Machine Reaches Across The Aisle With Fascists Instead Of Pivoting Toward Popular Progressive Leftist Positions Because Our Corporate Overlords Won't Let Us"
I remember watching the 1976 flick, Bound For Glory featuring David Carradine as Woody Guthrie on regular television after midnight when they show old movies that people stopped watching.
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Just sharing to so people keep adding to it.
In the song, Guthrie laments that he and his wife were forced to raise their children in an environment of racial hate.
Guthrie had balls of steel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLWLb0RM7HQ
AFT...
https://www.youtube.com/@hellswelles
https://youtu.be/jANuVKeYezs?si=wYb5DHYQmzxSVeVQ
Oh, sorry, thought you were calling me over..
I think Jesse Welles was touched by the same gods as Woody and Bob Dylan.
This land is your land, and this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me
I teach myself things by writing about them.
We are in a hybrid or nonlinear war, and the battlefield is not necessarily in a field somewhere or a city..
https://plumstchili.blogspot.com/2017/11/now-i-begin-to-understand-my-unusual.html
Good.
-- #PeteSeeger 🤓🪕🎶
Research.
Stand up. (Stand Together.)
Communicate.
Resist…
Protest & Advocate.
“Hold the Line”
Remain Peaceful, Safe and Orderly.
Respect.
Keep adding verses please. That's how folk music works. ie The melody of "This Land is Your Land" is "WhenThe Worlds on Fire". Singing our way through this Armageddon. 🎶
- Woody Guthrie
https://www.youtube.com/@hellswelles
as our new national anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXxtd1C0lXc
Soft spot for folk and protest songs. Soft spot for Arlo too.