so-soThe dialogs in slang spoiled it for me. Very hard to get into. When Guthrie writes about people he meets, human nature or describes Dust Bowl era America the book is at its best. Maybe if I'd had picked Bound for Glory up in a different time I would have enjoyed it more but I found myself skipping parts of the book and that's never a good sign... Love Guthrie's music though...
Hobo Chic and Railroad Blues.
It's time to hit the road.... #wevegottagetoutofthisplace
#MarchintoOz @Cinfhen @Lizpixie
I got a job from Uncle Samuel to come to the valley of the Columbia River and I made up and recorded 26 songs about the Grand Coulee Dam. I made 2 albums of records called “Dust Bowl Ballads” for the Victor people. I hit the road again and crossed the continent twice by way of highways and freights. Folks heard me on the nationwide radio programs CBS and NBC, and thought I was rich and famous, and I didn‘t have a nickel to my name...
And then a couple of months wheeled past, and I found myself walking all around with my head down, still out of a job, and asking other folks why they had their heads down. But most people was tough, and they still kept their heads up.
All of this talking about what‘s up in the sky, or down in hell, for that matter, isn‘t half as important as what‘s right here, right now, right in front of our eyes. Things are tough. Folks Broke. Kids hungry. Sick. Everything. And people has just got to have more faith in one another, believe in each other. There‘s a spirit of some kind we‘ve all got. That‘s got to draw us all together.
And there on the Texas plains right in the dead center of the dust bowl, with the oil boom over and the wheat blowed out and the hard-working people just stumbling about, bothered with mortgages, debts, bills, sickness, worries of every blowing kind, I seen plenty to make up songs about.
1943 copy featuring Woody's sketches throught. Looking forward to learning more about this icon through his own perception.
"This train don't carry no rustlers,
Whores, pimps, or side-street hustlers;
This train is bound for glory,
This train."
HBD to one of America's greatest songwriters - a man who's powerful political messages have been scrubbed from the popular imagination, but whose prophetic songs remain starkly relevant. (I like alliteration 😂) And, of course, his influence on Dylan cannot be denied.
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