Woody Guthrie Interviews (1)
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2013
- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS INTERVIEWS AND PERFORMANCE BY WOODY GUTHRIE:
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. -Woody
The real voice of America is Woody. There is no race just people
The first time I heard about Woody Guthrie was at a library in Denmark. My hometown, Køge. I saw a record. next to Bob Dylan and Donovan. I heard it. And tried to find out more about Woody. To me his music is outstanding. (Niels V. Andersen - Denmark)
Woody Guthrie is literally a genius and the voice of a generation.
Note how he mentioned his father being a fighting Democrat, because back then, the roles were reversed. Republicans were liberal, democrats were conservative. I find the reversal over time fascinating.
Thankful for Alan Lomax for recording this, that’s him talking in the beginning
didn't lomax also walk with leadbelly?
Reminds me of the time of my grandparents when I was growing up in Texas. Lived in and been to many places in the US but many of my great memories are from the 60's there in Texas. Wonderful to hear Woodie's voice replete with the crackle of the vinyl record.
"I just listen to the railroad whistle and whatever it say I say too"
Joy to hear this. We need another like him now!
Check out Slaid Cleaves!
Silvio Gesell 1862-1930. The second coming of Christ, like a thief in the night, with his new name. (Revelation 3:3,12)
Yes but there is still so much "gold" in the ground waiting to be discovered. We humans just forget so quickly. Here's a new old one, ua-cam.com/video/32N2bqZOPBY/v-deo.html,
"How do you know this is really Woody?"
_Video starts with two minutes of a guy just going absolutely _*_nuts_*_ on the harmonica_
You just know...
Who are you supposed to be quoting?
@@DeanH92 hes making up a scenario if it wasnt obvious
I've had a sealed copy of this for a few years. Just opened it. Never been played before. Wish I had a better stereo. Amazing recording.
No sequins or fringe is needed. Yup! G-G
I could listen to Woody tell stories all day long.
Thank you, Woody! I love your voice and wisdom
“Twenty-eight years, you pertnere guessed it.”
Bob. Dyan. Favorite
The fact that Woody Guthrie, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Willie Nelson, and even Johnny Cash were all slowly re-labed "Folk", "Singer-Songwriter", or "Alternative Country" is still something that makes me sick. Richard Nixon re-wrote the complicated and politically complex history of country music and those greedy bootlickers at the Grand Ol' Opry just let him do it. Most of the DEFINING ARTISTS of country music, as we know it, were uh... Let's just say not exactly the patriotic flag fondlers that many assume it's always been.
What are you talking about? Willie and Johnny are considered country. I cant say anything about the others, since I don't know them. But I would still call woody folk, since he sings about folk figures and tales and such.
On WoodyGuthrie.org, the "this land is your land" lyrics include the verses I will put below, can anyone tell me where I can find or buy the version that contains these verses? Please, and thank you in advance
"In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me."
+Andrew Purvis
These were never sung by Woody, but written by Woody.
He left hospital briefly and passed the lyrics along to Arlo (who was a kid at the time) and Pete Seeger sang them at the March on Washington.
+Andrew Purvis
These were never sung by Woody, but written by Woody.
He left hospital briefly and passed the lyrics along to Arlo (who was a kid at the time) and Pete Seeger sang them at the March on Washington.
+Andrew Purvis I know I've heard a version with that first part, but I don't think I've ever heard the second part. I'll let you know if I find the one I'm thinking of.
Woody sang some of these lines but I don't think there are recordings available. Pete Seeger, Woody's son Arlo, Bruce Springsteen and others have re-added these verses in later versions.
Elizabeth Mitchell sang a children's CD, sponsored by the Smithsonian, that re-added all of the lost verses and is worth a listen.
Here's what I researched a few years ago about the variants/different versions of "This Land Is Your Land"
by Woody -- most likely the most comprehensive history of this song:
songlexikon.blogspot.de/
after I learned that Woody pretty much left his wife and kids and little Arlo was only 6, it kind of changed my whole Woody Guthrie experience. Here he is singing about what people truly deserve and how they should be treated and at the same time abandoned Arlo. Reminds me of John Lennon and his son Julian. It is a thorn in my side.
I thought he did it because his health got worse from Huntington's, not because he wanted to? That's what it says on Wikipedia anyways.
He got a mental condition called huntington disease, so please dont judge him from afar. ua-cam.com/video/ObwQvAVDcLo/v-deo.html
@@flyphone1072 I mean he did leave his first wife and their children but that seems to have been at least partly a result of needing to find work the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. His second marriage, the one that produced Arlo, ended because his Huntingtons made him so unstable that his wife divorced him for the children's safety. He wasn't the most responsible parent beforehand but he seems to have at least made an effort before Huntington's made it impossible.
@@etanaedelman9011 But you know his second wife, Marjorie, was the one who took care of him after the disease got so bad and she cared for him until his death. Are you sure she divorced him or could it have been the other way around? I haven’t read an account of his life yet, tho ordered a book about it yesterday-so just asking if you know that to be a fact-especially since she was Arlo
and Nora’s mother and she was intelligent and did SO much to advance awareness of Huntington’s and help other families who had family members with the disease as well.
@@KaraLey98 Marjorie divorced him on the advice of doctors; she didn't want to but his disease was making him a danger to his kids. He sort of ran off to California and he had a brief third marriage (and a baby with) a woman named Anneke. That marriage quickly fell apart because of his illness and then Marjorie stepped back in to take care of him. She remarried several times so her kids could have a stable father figure, but she was basically devoted to Woody until his death. She probably would have remarried him if she could but it would have been impossible- he needed 24 hour care and she had three kids to raise and support. So he spent the last decade of his life in various mental hospitals, and Marjorie took the kids to see him on weekends.
The interviewer kinda sounds like Mike Nezmith
god, Arlo sounds so much like his father and they hardly spent any time together. natural storytellers.
Listen a bit............................
I feel like Arlo’s various accents and voices come and go depending on the occasion and what he wants to sound like..
this is spinning too fast