@bootlegbetty.bsky.socialBette Midler Receives the Prestigious Woody Guthrie Prize
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#AllYouFascistsBoundToLose, #BetteMidler, #Prize, #Sppech, #WoodyGuthrie
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@riverasun.bsky.socialThe great Bette Midler puts some new lyrics into the #woodyguthrie anthem "All You Fascists Bound to Lose".
@chrismichaelward.bsky.socialThe Divine @therealbettemidler.bsky.social getting the Woody Guthrie Prize, last night in Tulsa Oklahoma. Bette re-recorded Woody's song "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" and she deserves this. Congratulations Miss M! #BetteMidler #woodyguthrie
@grandaha.bsky.socialEveryone calls Woody Guthrie the fountainhead of American folk, but he drank from five deep wells first. The yodel he borrowed from Jimmie Rodgers, the talking blues he lifted from Chris Bouchillon — Woody didn't invent the voice, he collected it. #WoodyGuthrie #MusicArchaeology #MusicHistory
@woodstockwhisperer.bsky.socialThis is the second post on 20th century songs that I’ve come to call “News Music.” #JoshWhite #WoodyGuthrie #FrankSinatra #BigBillBroonzy #PeteSeeger #FinniansRainbow #Odetta #KingstonTrio
These examples are from 1941 up to the more famous 1960s.
@grandaha.bsky.socialGuthrie's "list of grievances" verse form wasn't his invention — he inherited that modular, swap-a-verse structure from Walt Whitman's cataloguing and the Carter Family's strophic songs. The scaffolding predates the man everyone credits it to. #WoodyGuthrie #MusicArchaeology #MusicHistory
@grandaha.bsky.socialWoody Guthrie rarely wrote melodies — he treated tunes as disposable packaging for his words. He lifted that trick straight from the Wobblies, whose songbook let picket lines learn a protest song in one pass. The tune was never the point. #WoodyGuthrie #FolkMusic #MusicArchaeology #MusicHistory
@woodstockwhisperer.bsky.socialActivist musicians are not confined to the 1960s. Here are several examples from the early part of the 20th century. #HarryDixon #FatsWaller #BlindAlfredReed #FlorenceReece #JimmieRogers #LedBelly #WoodyGuthrie
@grandaha.bsky.socialWoody Guthrie's whole deadpan delivery wasn't his invention — he lifted the form from Chris Bouchillon's 1926 "Talking Blues," a guy just talking over his own guitar. The accident of a mic catching conversational speech became a century of protest song. #WoodyGuthrie #MusicArchaeology #MusicHistory
@grandaha.bsky.socialGuthrie barely wrote original melodies — he borrowed existing tunes and poured new words in, and that borrowing was the point: a song about who owns the land, built from music that belonged to everyone. The method outlived him by decades. #WoodyGuthrie #FolkMusic #MusicArchaeology #MusicHistory
@mikeregenstreif.bsky.social#Alice’sRestaurant and Other Songs I’ve Heard #ArloGuthrie Sing is this week’s #StrangerSongs theme on #CKCU. Hear the show anytime at this link.
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#KateWolf #NoelPaulStookey #PeteSeeger #SteveGoodman #WoodyGuthrie #ColeQuest #DavidAmram #Klezmatics #CrowesPasture
@scottpatti.bsky.socialI love ole Woody Guthrie. ❤️
All You Fascists Bound to Lose.
Some songs just never lose their relevance. ✊
#WoodyGuthrie #BluesRock #ProtestMusic #ThisMachineKillsFascists
@craftrecordings.bsky.social#WoodyGuthrie left behind the words. #BillyBragg and #Wilco gave them music. Now, there’s more from the Mermaid Avenue sessions to hear.
“It’s been over thirty years since Nora first asked me to look at some unpublished lyrics of her father’s.––
@lanceeads.bsky.socialSunday at Just Bob in NE Portland, Oregon #acousticguitar #harmonica #vocals #originals #covers #folkmusic #singersongwriter #fingerstyle #fingerpicking #strumming #protestsongs #lovesongs #nature #philospophy #cosmology #woodyguthrie #carsieblanton #isb #wizzjones #bertjansch #nickdrake #katewolf
@lanceeads.bsky.socialMeet me at Just Bob on NE Alberta in Portland, OR 10/11 10am-noon! Original songs and covers by #woodyguthrie #carsieblanton #nickdrake #bertjansch #wizzjones #katewolf #jinxdawson #folkmusic #protestsongs #songsaboutnature #acousticguitar #harmonica #singing
@sullivanjames.bsky.socialSONG OF THE DAY: Wilco, “the Jolly Banker” #wsayo
If you show me you need it, I'll let you have credit
I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I
Just bring me back two for the one I lend you
“Opinion: Jeff Tweedy: #WoodyGuthrie Was Right About Us” (NYT)
@bootlegbetty.bsky.socialBette Midler Praises Woody Guthrie in a Stunning Tribute
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#Plaudits, #Woody GuthrieCenter, #WoodyGuthrie #BetteMidler
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@tedtockscovers.bsky.socialTed Tocks Covers
Song to Woody
Originally posted on January 29, 2021
On this day 65 years ago #BobDylan played @ Carnegie Hall for the first time.
“Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
Bout a funny ol’ world that’s a-comin’ along”
@johnautry.bsky.social9/3/1967-Woody Guthrie died in New York City at the age of 55. He had spent the last decade of his life in the hospital, suffering from Huntington's chorea.
#WoodyGuthrie
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