Letter from Chicago
It’s hell in Chicago when the wind sings a tune, But the worst thing in town is this Chicago Tribune. The Windy
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Woody Guthrie & Unions Amen!
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure and oppress all your workers. - Isaiah 58: 3 Our song
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Heaven and Heart: The Tense Past of Michael Been
Methodist church basement, northwest Oklahoma City, 1987. Yes, there is wood paneling. Yes, the carpet is shag, a rich
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The Stuff of Dreams
I want you to pay a lot more attention to all my words longer and deeper and quieter and louder than I ever could.
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Beyond the Archives
Woody Guthrie wrote songs, poems, essays, newspaper columns, letters, diaries, you name it. Writing was a compulsion
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Karen Dalton
Even before she rose from the dead, Karen Dalton always sounded like a ghost. Her voice was an unearthly coo, a
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Peeling in the Years
On October 3, Britain’s IT1 network aired a documentary, Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, in which 10 women
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Rare Earth
Woody Guthrie’s first book, the autobiographical Bound for Glory, was originally published in 1943. Like any
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Dispatches from the Weedpatch Camp
Like many pejoratives, the word “Okie” has been reclaimed—particularly within the borders of its namesake
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#RebootChrisGaines
This is a call for Troyal Brooks to bring his alter ego out of retirement. No, not Garth — though that ol’
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A Naked Person Is Not a Poem
Harrod Blank seems like an affable, naturally cheery fella. You’d think then that his dad, documentary filmmaker Les
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The Anti-Okie Panic
In the public discourse, the desperate people pouring over the border in search of work were described as an “influx
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