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Namely, Mermaid Avenue III, the as-of-yet unreleased third album by Bragg and Wilco composed of "recovered" Guthrie lyrics. Apparently the group and Bragg recorded three full albums, but cut down the songs to make two albums. So, later this year,...
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Grammytech 4: A Conversation With Geoff Emerick, Plus Brooklyn's Leland Sundries (Exclusive Streamer)
The Huffington Post
These Brooklyn indie-folksters recorded the project in an old creamery building, and it follows their debut, The Apothecary EP, which The New York Times picked up on: "Leland Sundries, a band from New York led by Nick Loss-Eaton, is dedicated to...
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Some day people are going to wake up to the fact that Woody Guthrie and the ten thousand songs that leap and tumble off the strings of his music box are a national possession like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and part of the best stuff this country has to show the world.
SOURCE: CMT - Country Music News -
Guthrie's family, including his children Arlo and Nora, is collaborating closely with officials at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles in assembling Woody at 100." It will include a broad swath of activities that will take place from California to
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Wilco and Billy Bragg are in on the dealio. The whole collaboration started when Nora Guthrie and Billy Bragg met at a show in Central Park in New York, and as far back 1997 Wilco and Billy Bragg started recording old Woody Guthrie songs from archived...
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Arizona sheriff quits Romney campaign — where’s the benefit from having to lie about your life?
Eideard
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” It worked for Woody Guthrie as well. There are differences from one civil rights struggle to another. When I walked away from White America in 1955 to spend my...
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While dates for the set’s release have not yet been announced, Bragg says on his website that he’ll be playing a series of shows focusing on Woody Guthrie’s legacy and the Mermaid Avenue songs. "I’ll be playing acoustic instruments and singing from the...
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She began sending me lyrics of her father’s unrecorded songs, encouraging me to write new music and make a collaborative album. Her initiative finally bore fruit in 1997, when I got together with Wilco in Chicago and Dublin, where we recorded nearly 50...
About Woody Guthrie
Wikipedia
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan "This Machine Kills Fascists" displayed on his guitar. His... Full Article
