Music Is My Weapon

I'll be honest, I did not know who Woody Guthrie was until I saw this shirt. "Kill Fascists" was a shirt made by by America's own folk hero, Woody Guthrie. Supporting social change through music is the American way!

Roy Kasten gives his oppinion on an Amazon review: What's most astonishing about Woody Guthrie is the way he created a whole, complete, living world of song. People, places, great and small events, nature, poetry, visions: He was so much more than a working class spokesperson, though, as this collection shows, he was the greatest one America has known. This first volume in the historic reissues of Guthrie's Smithsonian recordings is one of the finest: Guthrie's voice and verbal brilliance were at their peak in the 1940s and songs like "Do-Re-Mi," "Jesse James," and "Jesus Christ" continue to influence songwriters a half-century later.

His super-patriot vision is still alive today. The Smithsonian staff that is saving and cleaning and re-issuing the old Folkways catalogue, which is how I heard the music of Woody Guthrie.
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