All Posts Tagged With: "Guthrie"
Where is Woody Guthrie
It was hot. And dry. The wind blew and a dust storm raged. People finally just started calling it a dust bowl. The Midwest was overwhelmed with drought, the country overwhelmed with depression. People got tired. They got hungry. They got desperate. They could not feed their children. But they heard a story, a story […]
15May2016 | Ohg Rea Tone | 4 comments | Continued
Songs of the Great Depression
These are some very nice videos posted on youtube about the Great Depression. Well at least we got some good music out of the national sadness. Get ready for another renaissance in music. Woody Guthrie sang about the hard times in America. “This Land Was Made For You and Me” has become a folk classic […]
22Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Songs of the Great Depression | Continued
Woody Guthrie Sings About Immigration
I took some minor liberties with the title. Woody Guthrie was singing about immigration – but he was referring to the dust bowl immigrants to California. We forget that time when Americans were denied entrance into another State because of economics. See Also: Where is Woody Guthrie.
17Sep2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Woody Guthrie Sings About Immigration | Continued
Bruce Springsteen on Immigration
Son, Bruce Springsteen sings “This Land is Your Land” – a beautiful rendition of the Woody Guthrie classic. This song was written by a frustrated Guthrie in protest about the State by State policy on immigration. See Where is Woody Guthrie. The tragedy of the Dust Bowl swept this great nation during the Depression. People […]
27Jan2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Bruce Springsteen on Immigration | Continued