Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads
Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads Victor – 1940 / Folkways – 1964 Rating: 9.7 Everything that made Woody Guthrie an icon – his talentRead More…
Tag: Pre-War America
Harry Smith’s America: Part 3, Songs
This is the final installment in a three-part series about the music and impact of Harry Smith’s seminal 1952 compilation, Anthology of American Read More…
Harry Smith’s America: Part 2, Social Music
This is the second installment in a three-part series about the music and impact of Harry Smith’s seminal 1952 compilation, Anthology of AmericanRead More…
Harry Smith’s America: Part 1, Ballads
Eccentric? Yes. A polymath? Absolutely. Genius? Probably. I’ve seen countless definitions of the latter term, but for me, the one that tracks besRead More…
An Introduction to Country Blues
Few genres loom larger in the history of American song than the blues. The style first emerged in the South, prior to the Civil War, deriving froRead More…
Welcome to Pre-War America Month
Certain phrases are fully capable of existing in a realm of ambiguity – with omitted details sufficiently implied by the surrounding context clueRead More…