#bruce guthrie

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Arlo Guthrie (1947-) solo Songs: "Coming Into Los Angeles," "Alice's Rock'n'Roll Restaurant" Defeated Opponents: Mick Jagger Propaganda: "he's just a little guy. watch him perform 'Walking Down the Line' at Woodstock, it's hilarious, he's high af"

Jack Bruce (1943-2014) Cream - bass guitar and vocals; Bluesbreakers - bass guitar; Blues Incorporated - bass guitar Songs: "Sunshine of Your Love," "White Room" Defeated Opponents: Paul Simon Propaganda: none

#arlo guthrie #jack bruce #billboard hotties tourney #round two

[comicsgallery-marvel]

Avengers (2012) #24

#Bruce Banner #Clint Barton #James Howlett #Jessica Drew #Sam Guthrie #Steve Rogers #Thor Odinson #Tony Stark #Avengers (2012)

[abracazabka]

"I like everything but country" urban Americans are OUT and "I know and appreciate the history of country music as a rural protest genre" urban Americans are IN

#DONT LET THE RIGHT TAKE IT FROM US. CMON GUYS. BOB DYLAN WOODY GUTHRIE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN OKAY??? #music #JOHNNY CASH SAM COOKE CREDENCE CLEARWATER OKAYMMM #MKAY???

[ringneckedpheasant]

[text: There are, of course, all kinds of ways to tell the tale of authenticity. Bruce Springsteen's early street persona, for instance, developed with Asbury Park as the center of a rather self-consciously constructed mythscape, is structured with the streets of lower-middle class new Jersey as a place of both alienation and, subsequently, authenticity. Springsteen's credibility hinges on the fact that he speaks from the margins, from the wastelands of the American dream. Woody Guthrie's itinerant persona, itself a rather heavily worked-over construction, hinges on Guthrie's identification with dustbowl refugees, with the disenfranchised in general. Such stories tell us that there's a place, a place beyond or perhaps below where something more real is happening, something that transcends the commercial world's house of signs and mirrors, a house in which most of us, the stories insist, are living, living but lost.]

Excerpt from “White Man at the Door: Searching for the Last of the Bluesman” by Jay McInerney in Warren Zanes’ Dusty In Memphis

#bruce springsteen #woody guthrie #dusty springfield #(tangentially) #warren zanes #what did you think all them saddles and boots was about #marc.txt

[zeroaddzero]

whenever I see a comment like "I liked Bruce Springsteen before he went political" I just want to show them this

#bruce springsteen #woody guthrie #pete seeger #bruceposting #u gotta go REAL far back if you want a completely apolitical bruce. like 1969 #q #Youtube

[chaoticdesertdweller]

"My old friend, Judy Collins recently posted a photo on her Instagram of when we were in Japan together in May 1967. It was a crazy tour that had us playing all over Japan. I loved it. Thought I'd share one of the pix here. It looks like we were doing a song together (I was playing harmonica). Bruce Langhorn, me, Judy Collins and Mimi Fariña - 1967"- Arlo Guthrie via Facebook

#arlo guthrie #judy collins #bruce langhorn #mimi farina #1967 #black and white photography #japan

[krispyweiss]

Pussy Riot to Receive 2023 Woody Guthrie Prize

- “Usually when Pussy Riot gets added to lists, it’s not always a good thing, but we are honored to be on this one,” group says

Pussy Riot are the 2023 recipients of the Woody Guthrie Prize.

The annual award recognizes artists who exemplify Guthrie’s life by “speaking for the less fortunate” and/or “serving as a positive force for social change.”

“There are no contemporary artists more worthy of this recognition than Pussy Riot,” Guthrie Center Director Cady Shaw said in a statement. “They have paid a very personal price for speaking their minds on the most serious issues of our time, yet they continue to fight for justice and freedom.”

The award ceremony is May 6 prior to Pussy Riot’s first performance in Tulsa, Okla.

The Russian collective’s members said they believe Guthrie “would love Pussy Riot’s anti-fascist message” and called the prize “fitting” in a statement.

“Usually when Pussy Riot gets added to lists, it’s not always a good thing, but we are honored to be on this one,” they said.

“Anyone can be Pussy Riot. Riot. Riot. Resist,” they added. “Oh, and a quick reminder to Vladimir Putin and anyone who supports his Z regime - all you fascists are bound to lose.”

Pussy Riot joins previous prize winners including Joan Baez, Chuck D, Kris Kristofferson, Norman Lear, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen and Mavis Staples.

3/25/23

#pussy riot #woody guthrie #woody guthrie prize #bruce springsteen #mavis staples #norman lear #chuck d #joan baez #kris kristofferson #pete seeger #john mellencamp

[thisaintascenereviews]

The Misguided Anger Of Oliver Anthony & The Working Class

Pioneering folk singer-songwriters The Almanacs, which included influential folk musician Pete Seeger, penned the protest song “Talkin’ Union” in 1941. The song is about forming a labor union, including the positives and the roadblocks that would get in the way, but it mainly is about how necessary they are. That song was written in the 1940s, but the need for unions has extended to the present day. Protest music itself is an idea that’s just as American as baseball, apple pie, and McDonald’s. A lot of these songs, as well as the ideas that these songs express, are timeless. Labor unions, for example, are just as important now as they were almost a century ago. An artist being able to express their thoughts through song is a right that’s guaranteed by the First Amendment, but that free speech works both ways. Just as an artist can release a song that has one point, they can release songs that has the opposite.

This year has seen the rise of two songs, almost back to back, that the (mainly) right side of the political spectrum are championing, more specifically Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town” and Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North Of Richmond.” The former song has already faded from most people’s minds, as most folks who defended the song forgot about it a couple of weeks later, and moved onto Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North Of Richmond.” There is something to be said for an independent artist that was a nobody a week ago suddenly blow up and have millions of plays on streaming services out of nowhere, but that’s a good topic for another piece. This piece, however, is about the complicated subject matter of the song.

At first glance, “Rich Men” is a song that aims to unite the working class against politicians and corporations that don’t pay them fairly. Lines like “I’ve been selling my soul, workin’ all day / Overtime hours for bullshit pay / So I can sit out here and waste my life away / Drag back home and drown my troubles away” make a lot of people think that. The chorus, while still having that idea, is a little less interesting, because all Anthony says is that rich men north of Richmond are bad and they want to control you. So far you’d think the song is ultimately about the blue collar worker struggling to get by, but the song takes a dramatic turn in the second and third verses that made me understand why conservatives specifically love this song.

Thanks to many Republican politicians using rhetoric that purposely divides people, there always needs to be a hypothetical “they” to blame for their problems. Well, who does Oliver Anthony blame for his? You’d think that he would blame the corporations, the politicians, or the capitalist system that they all benefit from, but instead he blames “the obese milkin’ welfare.” With lines like “Well, if you’re 5’3” and you’re 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds,” the issues with the song start to present themselves. Anthony’s idea of blaming obese people on welfare for his woes is very odd, but it’s also very misguided. What Anthony and people that love the song don’t seem to realize that you don’t need to punch down on others to make a point. Bruce Springsteen, John Mellancamp, Tom Petty, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger didn’t punch down on people to make their points about wanting to be paid equally, or their everyday struggles as blue collar Americans.

Seeing these types of songs, especially “Rich Men North Of Richmond,” getting popular, makes me wonder where other songs and artists like this are. A few of the popular heartland-rock artists of the 1970s / 1980s are still making music and regularly touring, but there aren’t modern artists in this vein that are a household name. I’ve been thinking about all of this for the last week, especially with the song debuting at number one on the Billboard 100. Personally, I have mixed feelings on the song itself, because as much as it attempts to make a great point in the first half, it’s the rest of it that leaves a very sour taste in my mouth. The song itself, looking past the controversy, is mediocre, and it sounds as amateurish as you can get. It’s still cool seeing the power that people can have on the music industry and seeing a completely independent artist rise to the top, especially about the average blue collar worker’s experience, but why him, though?

Springsteen, Petty, and Mellancamp were so popular in their time for being vivid and grounded storytellers, whether talking about themselves or characters in their music that accurately represented the average American. While Anthony’s “Rich Men” sort of does that, it just feels like he’s angry about how the way things are, and doesn’t know how to properly articulate it. This song relies more heavily on emotion, versus what he actually has to say, and maybe that’s why people are resonating with it, but there are other artists out there (especially in Appalachia) that speak more to the average American’s experience and do so in a way that doesn’t blame anyone or paint anyone else as an enemy.

A great example of an artist that should be held in the same regard as Oliver Anthony is Adeem The Artist, a country / folk singer-songwriter from North Carolina that speaks openly about their expediences as a queer and non-binary person in the South. Their last LP, 2022’s White Trash Revelry, is a record that has a lot of themes and ideas that speaks to the average (Appalachian) American’s experience, such as racism and white supremacy, the opioid epidemic, toxic masculinity, and poverty. When I listened to “Rich Men North Of Richmond,” I immediately thought about the song “Books & Records” by Adeem The Artist. That song is a much more compelling look the blue collar worker’s struggle, because it’s a very grounded song that has Adeem (or an unnamed character) having to sell their books and records just to be able to eat.

That’s a sad reality for many everyday people; they don’t want to sell their prized possessions, but surviving is much more important, so they do what they need to do. There is a warm sense of optimism at the end, however, saying that they’ll buy them back someday, which is something that “Rich Men” unfortunately lacks. Instead of providing an answer to Anthony’s grievances about being paid unfairly, and what he can do to remedy that, he points a finger at groups of people that he feels that are to blame. He ultimately shrugs and says that’s the way it is without really offering any solution, or pondering why he’s in that position. Books & Records” doesn’t punch anyone down, or blame anyone, it’s just an honest look at being poor and having to sell your books and records so you can eat.

I don’t think that “Rich Men North Of Richmond” is going to stick around in the weeks to come. A lot of the people that love the song are going to move on, just as they did with “Try That In A Small Town.” If they truly resonate with the message of being paid unfairly, and being angry with politicians, they’d protest, form labor unions, or much more simply, vote for politicians that are not going to let these corporations commit unethical and unfair business practices. The sad reality is that the same people that love this song are still going to vote for the politicians that the reasons for why they’re facing these hardships. They don’t realize that those politicians don’t care about them, and only care about their self-interests. The most powerful weapon that we have in this country is our vote, and the only way to at least attempt to upend the capitalist system that benefits the corporation and disenfranchises the average worker is to vote for the politicians that will repeal or enact laws to limit the power of these corporations.

Until that happens, more songs like “Rich Men North Of Richmond” are sure to get popular for a week or two, only for people to forget about them (and what they say), just to move onto the next guy that says the same thing in a slightly different way. The cycle is going to repeat over and over again, and that’s the way a lot of politicians want it to be. They don’t want anything to change, and they have both trained people to live with the way things are, and divided people in a way that blames their fellow Americans, instead of everyone uniting together to take them down. There are many hypothetical “theys” that politicians want to paint as the enemy for people to point their fingers at, and “Rich Men North Of Richmond” buys into that propaganda, but the real enemies are the politicians themselves and that’s who we really need to go after.

I wrote this piece last week, right as the song was starting to get traction, and I wanted to add onto it at the very end, because Anthony has come out in the days since to talk about his thoughts as the song has gotten bigger. He has come out and said he thinks it’s funny that Republicans have co-opted the song, and that it was played at the GOP debate, only because he wrote that song about people like that. He also said that he celebrates diversity, and people need to unite together instead of be torn apart. Those sentiments are fine and dandy, but those welfare lyrics still don’t sit well, nor give me the impression he loves diversity, and the fact that he hasn’t quite denounced his Republican fanbase is telling. You can say you’re an “independent” all you want, but most people that say that, they lean towards the right. It’ll be interesting to see where the song lands on the Billboard 100 this week, considering the hype has pretty much disappeared, as to be expected, but we’ll see.

#oliver anthony #rich men north of richmond #acoustic #folk music #country #appalachia #indie country #bruce springsteen #tom petty #john mellencamp #pete seeger #woody guthrie #adeem the artist #white trash revelry

[a-wild-things-rambles]

my drafts count has gone up by 6 but shout out to good american country for hitting most the spots of my complicated ass identity and standing in this world. it fuking sucks that i have barely anything that speaks true from people who actualy lived my spesific intersection, but anything that speaks to that, even if its from across ocean, means so much to me.

solidarity my far away friends, fuck the pigs and fuck the businessman and keep walkin these paths, they can make us suffer but they will never truely know the softness of the summer evening air, they will never know what it means to be truly free, even with all the weight the world puts on our shoulders.

#thebirdspeaks #poetry #music #<- for findin again #i talk about johnny cash woddie guthrie n bruce springsteen [n zack bryan] as music that speaks to my life and self #in the same breath i talk about the music from people i know and who lived and suffered beside me and before me #but theres pitifully few of the latter #sure it aint talken bout me exactly #ain talking about right to roam and horse theft by pigs #aint talking about *my* firesides and roads #but the emotions the same #music is a great way to relate to people #look past teh words and listen to teh emotion #and see it reverberate in the strings of your soul #so yea thanks to country i can listen n think of my own community and my own struggles #a familar humm from a foreign string

[rjptalk]

THIS WATER BELONGS TO YOU AND ME: LIVING WITH GROUNDWATER

THIS WATER BELONGS TO YOU AND ME: LIVING WITH GROUNDWATER

Having a well doesn’t mean you “own” the water. Groundwater in a watershed — which this is — is shared by everyone to whom it flows. A lot people don’t understand that any water they waste is also my water. We need to work together. Sharing the aquifer like good people should This is what I wanted to draw when I woke up and I wanted it to go along with Woodie Guthrie’s song. This water was made…

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#Bruce Springsteen #Drawings #groundwater #Marilyn Armstrong #Music #Woodie Guthrie

[justwalkiingthedog]

#bruce springsteen #woody guthrie #guitar #blues #Youtube

[mywifeleftme]

279: V/A // Sky Girl

Sky Girl Various Artists 2013/2016 (reissue), Not on label/Efficient Space (Bandcamp)

Funny little compilation here, assembled from various ‘60s to ‘90s private and art presses by two French DJs. Of course, clearance issues come for us all—the original independently-released 2013 CD version had a rather different track list than this 2016 vinyl reissue on the Australian Efficient Space label. Still, in either formulation Sky Girl has a wonderful melancholy sweetness, mapping an emotional Venn diagram between C86 indie, Vashti Bunyan, Arthur Russell, bedroom R&B, gawky synth pop, and beyond. Being largely* from the private press realm, the originals of these recordings are nearly all painfully pricey: Warfield Spillers’ “Daddy’s Little Girl” single crosses the soul ballad with Beat Happening lo-fi and will cost you $800; an original of the Rising Storm LP that contains “Frozen Laughter,” an impossibly delicate psychedelic idyll, will run you a cool six grand or so. Unlike a lot of comps that focus on this market, this isn’t really weirdo stuff. These people are for the most part fairly talented and seemingly sane people who are trying their best to make good music that will make the listener feel something. Some of them probably could’ve gotten a bite at the record industry apple with a little more luck, but a lot of the songs the compilers have selected have a private vibe that seems endemic to their nature, like overhearing something intended for a lover or a diary. Collectors pay a premium for that sense, like some Japanese novel about lovers who never meet but distantly pine in a waft of mutual déjà vu (this I guess is the plot of Le double vie de Véronique also, and “Ana Ng”).

I would’ve loved if the compilation’s liners had offered more of the stories of these recordings, though it’s admittedly fun to Do My Own Research sometimes. (And the reissue cover is lamentably drab.) The 2016 version of the comp is readily available on streaming platforms for those who wish to sample—I especially recommend prolific indie cassette artist Linda Smith’s “I So Liked Spring,” Australian minimal wave obscurity Karen Marks’ “Cold Café,” and the robotic puberty-angst groover “Feeling Sheepish” by Some of My Best Friends Are Canadians. But Sky Girl really is more than the sum of its parts, as any good mixtape should be.

279/365

* The CD version did open with a track by the Haruomi Hosono-affiliated duo Testpattern that was well-distributed, in Japan at least.

#julien dechery #dj sundae #linda smith #karen marks #some of my best friends are canadians #bruce langhorne #the seraphims #gary davenport #the rising storm #warfield spillers #joyce heath #joe tossini #scott seskind #angel #hugo weris #nino raviolette #nora guthrie #once #'60s music #'70s music #'80s music #'90s music #private press #art press #efficient space

[musicianfiend]

Songs About Trains

Explore the timeless allure of train-themed songs, from classic rock anthems to soulful ballads. Discover the stories and emotions behind these tracks that have captivated generations. 🚂🎵 #TrainSongs #MusicLegends #SoulfulMelodies

Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne, from the album Blizzard of Ozz: The song is often seen as an anthem for going off the rails and losing control. Genre: Heavy Metal Origin: United Kingdom Signature Guitar Riff Last Train to London by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), from the album Discovery: A romantic encounter on the last train to London. Genre: Rock, Disco Origin: United Kingdom Infectious…

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#1903 #Aerosmith #Anthem #Anticipation #Arlo Guthrie #Atmospheric #Ballad #Big Train (From Memphis) #Black Sabbath #Blackfoot #Blue Train #Blues #Bluesy #Bob Dylan #Bruce Springsteen #Change #Chaos #Chicago to New Orleans #Cinderella #City of New Orleans #Classic Blues #Confusion #Cover Song #Crazy Train #Critical Song #Disappointments #Downbound Train #Downtown Train #Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) #Elizabeth Cotten

[science-criticaltheory]

Bruce Springsteen: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND.

Live at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, CA on September 30, 1985 (penultimate show of the "Born In The U.S.A." tour).

OberstKrautwasche

One Sunday morning in the shadow of the steeple by the relief office I saw the people and they were hungry and they were wondering if this land was made for you and me.

#Youtube #bruce springsteen #woody guthrie

[dreamofbecoming]

i’ve seen conflicting opinions on whether eddie would listen to springsteen, but i feel like the answer should be obvious. i mean, the guy painted a woody guthrie reference onto his first guitar, you can’t tell me he doesn’t have a soft spot for the johnny cashes and the willie nelsons and yes, the bruce springsteens of the world. guys with gravelly voices who sing about loss and disillusionment and being left behind, by life or the government or the girl they love. add in that springsteen openly made out with another man on stage (a black man no less) and you can’t tell me eddie wouldn’t be hooked. queer guy sings about being stuck in a small town and doomed love and hating the man? that’s his fucking shit right there. maybe he wouldn’t admit to liking him in public to protect his metalhead cred, but eddie values music, he values sincerity, he values bravery.

anyway my point is that in the 90s/00s eddie is absolutely a closet dixie chicks fan and i will die on this hill

#stranger things #eddie munson #yes robin turned him onto them #yes he pretends to be annoyed when she drags him to concerts but he definitely rearranged at least one song into a harder cover #getting blacklisted from the industry for openly opposing the war is the most metal thing he can imagine ok? #steve gets stupid into the indigo girls too that’s unrelated but it’s true #also yes i know they’re not called that anymore #but they were then so that’s what he would have been #shit am i deadnaming a band? is that what i’m doing? fuck #he’s a chicks fan ok he just is #my writing #technically

[micamicster]

Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced I am yours, I will be it. / Progress cannot begin and suffering will not end until someone has the courage to go out into the woods and drown the damn cat.

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen / Black Sails (2014-2017)

"From the town of Lincoln, Nebraska," over a crowd of people at the docks in Nassau.

"with a sawed-off .410 on my lap" over Flint's hand holding a smoking gun.

"Through the badlands of Wyoming." over dark blue water.

"I killed everything in my path," over Flint shooting a gun. He is aiming straight out of the screen and his face is obscured by sparks.

"I can't say that I'm sorry for the things that we done," over Flint's face in profile in the scene where he says to Miranda (not pictured) that this ends when he grants England his forgiveness.

"At least for a little while me and her we had us some fun," over Silver's face during his descent into the darkness conversation with Flint.

"At least for a little while me and her we had us some fun," over Silver's face during his descent into the darkness conversation with Flint.

"They declared me unfit to live," over Flint and Vane on trial in Charleston. They are viewed from behind sitting side by side.

"said: into that great void," over ghost Miranda screaming.

"my soul'd be hurled," over the preacher practicing his sermon in the cornfield.

"They wanted to know why I did what I done," over Flint and Silver's sword-fighting practice. Flint is holding a sword out to Silver by its hilt.

"Well, sir," over Silver's and Flint in the jungle on Skeleton island. Silver's face is in focus in the foreground and Flint is visible blurred over his shoulder. Silver's face is partially cut-off by the edge of the frame.

"I guess there's just a meanness in this world," over Max talking to Grandma Guthrie (not pictured) about needing to drown the damn cat.

#forgot to do the image IDs omg ok posting again! #IDs below the readmore #black sails #bsedit #blacksailsedit #james flint #max black sails #(i mean... i think she's the crux of the set but she is only in one image so idk if i should tag her?) #john silver #bruce springsails #<-gotta make that a real tag since it looks like this is gonna be a series after all! i can't help myself!