In honor of #laborday I’ve put together a small sampler playlist of some #proworker folk music, including #PhilOchs @davidrovics, #UtahPhillips, #PeteSeeger, and #WoodyGuthrie. I hope you enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2lEvvXwdIFSOtJbpmrjbn8?si=Lus9g8w8T-ukXRQdDHLsNA

Back into the Môn Ukulele Group (MUGs) this afternoon after a few weeks absence due to hols - one of the songs we’re practising now is #ThisLandIsOurLand by #WoodyGuthrie so have decorated ‘Sweetie’ the Uke in tribute… 🎶

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/21/billy-bragg-releases-response-song-to-oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond

So appreciate #BillyBragg at this moment in history.

I think #WoodyGuthrie would have been proud. I recall he once wrote a song ("This land is your land") as a response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," so it is pretty nice to see Bragg do the same thing to #OliverAnthony.

#UnionStrong

#WoodyGuthrie #quote
I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.

@SecularJeffrey

Gutted - I didn't know they'd done any!

In my defence I started my kids off with kiddie songs from this guy instead - you're never too young to be introduced to the man with the machine that kills fascists.

https://open.spotify.com/album/32QP2aNR4Ww4aHCysZm0zE?si=RKdJKHNmS4SFirP3OD-hyA

#WoodyGuthrie
#ThisMachineKillsFascists

@EugeneMcParland #theImmortalityKey #woodyguthrie

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And one more union song from Pete Seeger. 😎

This particular recording is priceless, because Pete pauses in the middle to tell a story about Woody Guthrie! (I can just picture Woody chasing a "capitalist" heckler around with a beer bottle! 😆 🤣 )

Pete Seeger sings Woody Guthrie - Unuon Maid - YouTube

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#Strike #Union #Hollywood #SAG #WGA #SAGAFTRA #WGAStrike #SAGAftraStrike

#Music #Folk #FolkMusic #PeteSeeger #WoodyGuthrie

#DJ5ciFiGirl #5ciFiGirl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8C_7cU_Idc

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When those billionaires say they want the strikers to lose their homes?!? What would Pete Seeger say?? 😯 ...

I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister (All I Want) - YouTube

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#Strike #Union #Hollywood #SAG #WGA #SAGAFTRA #WGAStrike #SAGAftraStrike

#Music #Folk #FolkMusic #PeteSeeger #WoodyGuthrie

#DJ5ciFiGirl #5ciFiGirl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdlRXjRTr4U

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Another union song, classic Pete Seeger. 😌

Which Side Are You On - YouTube

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#Strike #Union #Hollywood #SAG #WGA #SAGAFTRA #WGAStrike #SAGAftraStrike

#Music #Folk #FolkMusic #PeteSeeger #WoodyGuthrie

#DJ5ciFiGirl #5ciFiGirl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPj1-ppNJzo&list=OLAK5uy_n2SWpk1s2BB3XHkIUla9mMBCJ7fyY1nlI&index=8

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Everything old is new again right? 👀

So somehow, all these classic Pete Seeger union songs are more relevant than ever! 😯👏

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First up, one of the most iconic Pete Seeger union songs: 👍

Talking Union - YouTube

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#Strike #Union #Hollywood #SAG #WGA #SAGAFTRA #WGAStrike #SAGAftraStrike

#Music #Folk #FolkMusic #PeteSeeger #WoodyGuthrie

#DJ5ciFiGirl #5ciFiGirl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWqrtSbSJk8

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Woody Guthrie was born on this date in 1912.

#woodyguthrie #thismachinekillsfascists #baseballcards #cardart

111 years ago today, Woody Guthrie, American folk singer-songwriter (This Land Is Your Land) and peace activist, born in Okemah, Oklahoma (d. 1967)
#WoodyGuthrie

The Klezmatics - "From Here on In" (lyrics by Woody Guthrie) https://klezmatics.bandcamp.com/track/from-here-on-in #TheKlezmatics #WoodyGuthrie #SusanMcKeown #Bandcamp #music #Klezmatics

#Datreveno #WoodyGuthrie #Muziko

Je ĉi dato en 1912 naskiĝis Woody Guthrie, muzikisto, kiu verkis kaj ludis multon da siaj propraj kantoj, eble la plej fama estis "Ĉi tiu lando estas via lando", kiun li verkis ĉar li opiniis, ke radio ludis la kanton "Dio benu Usono" tro ofte. Li mortis pro la genetika malsano Huntington. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
Bildo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Woody_Guthrie_2.jpg

Legendary folk singer's legacy celebrated in Woody Guthrie Center's 10th anniversary year | Tulsa World
https://tulsaworld.com/life-entertainment/local/music/legendary-folk-singers-legacy-celebrated-in-woody-guthrie-centers-10th-anniversary-year/article_8cec98d6-19e5-11ee-ae70-2b7e00de2ece.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
http://archive.today/PqlUh

#Oklahoma #WoodyGuthrie #Tulsa

Today in Labor History July 6, 1911: IWW labor organizer Joe Hill's song "The Preacher & the Slave" first appeared in the IWW’s Little Red Song Book. The song is a parody of the hymn, “Sweet By and By,” often song by the Salvation Army (who the IWW called the Starvation Army), which would try to drown out the union’s street-corner labor organizing with their hymns. The Wobbly bard, Haywire Mac, is believed to be the first person to sing this song in public. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Utah Phillips also covered the song.

Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked how 'bout something to eat
They will answer in voices so sweet

Chorus
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die

And the Starvation Army, they play,
And they sing and they clap and they pray,
Till they get all your coin on the drum,
Then they tell you when you're on the bum

(Chorus)

Workingmen of all countries, unite
Side by side we for freedom will fight
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we'll sing this refrain
Chorus

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #JoeHill #union #PreacherAndTheSlave #FolkMusic #WoodyGuthrie #UtahPhillips

Musical Interlude: OK, I'm feeling a little patriotic, but in my own way...and here's a little expression of that. We were taught this when I was a kid; I don't think they realized all the ways this song could be taken.

"This Land Is Your Land," composed and performed by Woody Guthrie.

#MusicalInterlude #Folk #WoodyGuthrie #America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s

#GreatAlbums1990s - #BillyBragg & #Wilco - #MermaidAvenue (1998). A found clutch of #WoodyGuthrie lyrics provided grist for a vivid reimagining of Guthrie's work -- strengthened by its refusal to sound all hayseedy and old-timey. "California Stars," "Ingrid Bergman" and other gems suggested Woody's talent might have flourished even without the depression dust that spurred his humor and indignation. As for Bragg/ Wilco, this disc stands with their finest work.

#1990s, #Americana, #Rock

@tess

I feel that Woody Guthrie would very much approve of this meme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIOHXYDaT-s

#Music #WoodyGuthrie #Americana #Antifa

Each of these crises is terrible, and each one is an opportunity for ideas lying around to rush into the center currently occupied by Friedman's intellectual descendants.

80 years on, #WoodyGuthrie's 1943 New Year's Resolutions are a hell of a read, and not a day goes by that I don't think of number 19: "Keep hoping machine running."

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/news/a9130/woody-guthrie-resolutions/

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