Dust Bowl Ballads - Volume 1
by Woody Guthrie

From ExTeaSea 02/14/2023 04:53 | #293999 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Such a surreal thing to listen to in 2023.. listening to him singing about dust covering everything almost 100 years ago is spooky. Really puts you back in time to a completely different era.

From VictorVale 09/01/2020 22:19 | #257664

Fundamento da música americana e da revolução musical que veria a seguir.

From Boltzmann 01/12/2020 12:32 | #246763 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

The start of the folk revival, but much more. A stylistic decision made by lack of alternatives, but it automatically is the perfect style to express political critique. Other than other folk revivals it didn't originate from chauvinistic longing to simpler times, but rather from a need for change. And this return to roots seems odd with this motive, until you realize it comes from a place of poverty. And that's why it's perfect: it shows the poverty perfectly; no better way to express poverty than by going back to your roots. It became a usual thing to do when culture had changed for people at the bottom of society to express their distress by going to the roots, the roots being a different thing every time. In the seventies that was rock 'n' roll, and we called the revival punk for instance.