Protest Music Hall of Fame: Dust Bowl Ballads – Woody Guthrie

Cover of the 1964 reissue by Folkways Records Released in 1940, Woody Guthrie’s first commercial recording Dust Bowl Ballads is widely cited as the first concept album. Based on both his personal experiences and John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath it details the 1930s Dust Bowl era during The Great Depression when farmers were dispossessed of their land due to […]

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Protest Music Hall of Fame: Woody Guthrie

“This machine kills fascists” It would be impossible to overestimate the impact that Woody Guthrie continues to have on American folk music. His contributions to the canon of protest songs are undeniable. His music rallies against fascism, racism and other injustices. Even though Guthrie initial attempts at a music career began in the early 1930s, he started to gain a […]

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