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HISTORICAL FACTS: Woody guthrie | History Defined

Seeing Springsteen in DC gave me hope

The Boss took Washington back to a time when dissent mattered

Salon

"I held these pieces of paper in the palms of my hands like I was holding a newborn child." The story of the platinum-selling, two-minute blast of Celtic punk inspired by historic musical documents

Dropkick Murphys' I’m Shipping Up To Boston was a collision of legless pirates and beyond-the-grave lyrics from American folk hero Woody Guthrie

Louder

“B.B. King’s first guitar was a red Stella acoustic. That’s the kind of impact we want this brand to continue to have”: Harmony brings the Stella brand back from the dead with a $349 solid-topped parlor

These small-bodied stunners have slotted headstocks, bone nuts, and a voice that loves a recording mic

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‘You are the machine that kills hate’: Woody Guthrie’s protest anthems strike a chord with a new generation

A timely exhibit at NYU celebrates the anti-fascist folk artist – despite the university’s recent suppression of campus protests

The Guardian - US

Country Joe McDonald obituary

US singer and songwriter best known for his 1969 Woodstock performance of his anti-war I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag

The Guardian - UK

Why dispute ruling on Palestine Action, but accept legal challenge on elections?

Brief letters: Legal muddles | Woody Guthrie | Cabbage queen | Ode to pigeons | The mystery of birth

The Guardian - UK

‘Which Side Are You On?’: American protest songs have emboldened social movements for generations, from coal country to Minneapolis

The presence of Department of Homeland Security agents in Minnesota compelled many people there to use songs as a means of protest. Those songs were from secular as well as religious traditions.

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From ‘this machine kills fascists’ to ‘King Trump’s private army’: the art of protest music

In January, over the course of three days, Bruce Springsteen wrote, recorded and released the political protest song Streets of Minneapolis.

The Conversation

The troubling relevance of Woody Guthrie’s new album, released 58 years after his death

A new album by Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), perhaps the most influential US folk artist, was released late last summer. Woody at Home, Vol. 1 & 2 contains songs – some already known, others previously unreleased – the artist recorded from 1951 to 1952 on a tape recorder he received from…

The Conversation

‘This country’s gonna fall on its face. There’s nobody coming to save us’: Boston punks Dropkick Murphys take on Maga

Videos of frontman Ken Casey confronting rightwing provocateurs at the band’s gigs have gone viral, attracting new fans and new safety worries. He wants to lower the temperature – and see other bands speaking out

The Guardian - UK

DHS sparks confusion by adopting socialist anthem for latest video: ‘He’s writing about cops and vigilantes’

Department of Homeland Security has used memes, historical paintings, and now famed folk protest song to advertise Trump administration

The Independent UK

‘He wrote five songs about washing dishes!’ The lost Woody Guthrie gems rescued by AI

He sang about love, injustice, Einstein – and his landlord Fred Trump, father of Donald, ending up in hell. As a trove of Guthrie tracks resurfaces, his daughter Nora remembers the penner of ‘hard-hitting songs for hard-hit people’

The Guardian - UK

Icons shine at American Music Honors

Bruce Springsteen led a star-studded tribute to legends like Smokey Robinson, John Fogerty and Emmylou Harris

Salon

“He was not a great guitarist, he was not a great singer. He kind of stumbled all over the stage”: Early Bob Dylan promoter and confidante Terri Thal talks Dylan’s classic Gaslight Café demo as it comes up for auction

With Dylan interest at a new high, Thal shares her story of discovering the star and making his first ever recording

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Why A Complete Unknown should win the best picture Oscar

Despite being freewheelin’ with the facts, this Bob Dylan biopic has delighted fans old and new, with Timothée Chalamet proving more than just a Zimmerman mimic

MusicRadar

“It dawned on me, ‘Wow! I think that we’re learning how to do this just how Bob learned how to play’”: How Timothée Chalamet went from a complete guitar novice to become Bob Dylan onscreen

Chalamet's guitar teacher Larry Saltzman reveals how the pursuit of authenticity and a $200 Yamaha acoustic helped the star nail his Oscar-nominated performance in A Complete Unknown

The Independent UK

Trump invoked all corners of American history. How might he use them to build his new 'Golden Age'?

In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn American myths, tropes and ideals

The Guardian - UK

‘The hair, the voice, the casual cruelty – they nailed it!’ Bob Dylan experts rate A Complete Unknown

Are the guitars right? Is Joan Baez sidelined? Who is this Sylvie Russo? And why is it an American shouting ‘Judas’? A Dylan tribute singer, two biographers, a superfan and more weigh in

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Louder

Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is an enthralling depiction of the emergence of a singular musical genius and cultural disruptor, with Timothée Chalamet superb as a young Dylan

James Mangold's excellent Bob Dylan biopic will introduce a whole new generation to the icon's rough and rowdy ways

MusicRadar

“If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to”: What can songwriters learn from Bob Dylan's view on absorbing influences?

What can songwriters learn from Bob Dylan's view on absorbing influences?

MusicRadar

“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose”: Woody Guthrie's songwriting philosophy debated

Does Woody Guthrie's songwriting philosophy still stand?

Salon

Unmasking the "contrarian" Bob Dylan

Filmmaker James Mangold spoke with Salon about the musician's not-so-oblique songwriting and the women in his life

Louder

“We were limited by venues, by the number of people in the band. We wanted to play louder. Everyone had been talking about going electric as Dylan had. None of us had the budget…” Maddy Prior’s history of Steeleye Span

From breaking out of local clubs to touring with Jethro Tull and attracting guest spots from David Bowie and Peter Sellers, the leading light of British folk looks back – and forward

Guitar World

“I’m making mistakes in the guitar a little bit but I went home and wept that night. It’s a song I’ve been living with for years and could relate to deeply”: Timothée Chalamet on playing guitar in the Bob Dylan biopic – and the song that made it all click

Chalamet discusses the nuances of Dylan’s guitar playing and the moment his portrayal of the legendary songwriter came together

Louder

"I went home and I wept that night": Actor Timothée Chalamet on filming the emotional scene in which Bob Dylan visits the ailing Woody Guthrie in hospital and plays him a song

Timothée Chalamet stars in Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, due for release in the new year

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