BILLY BRAGG TONIGHT (w/ WILCO) ~

 

O FREEDOM (BILLY BRAGG) ~

 

℗ 2008 Billy Bragg Released on: 2008-03-03 Main Artist: Billy Bragg Music Publisher: Cooking Vinyl Limited Composer: Billy Bragg

WOODY GUTHRIE (BILLY BRAGG & WILCO) ~

 

I AIN'T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE ~

I AIN'T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE ~

MORE!

TOMORROW ~

ALL WOODY ~

WOODY GUTHRIE

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/23/woody_guthrie_at_100_pete_seeger

FOLK HERO ~

Billy Bragg



It's another great day in the world when a punk-rocker from the U.K. can survive the storm and grow up to be a workingclass hero, of a sort. Bragg, ever modest, admits he is a performer and how lucky we are at how well and where he dares to perform: on picket lines, in the tear-gas, worldwide touring from the busk-curb to the stage, on the radio, a terrific songwriter, and one who has taken up the mantle of likewise spreading the songs of Woody Guthrie, who sang the songs for us, when there was an us.


There still is.


Listen to Billy Bragg for an hour below and feel yourself feel worthy.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/1/billy_bragg_british_rocker_on_norway_attacks

PETE'S BEST SONG ~

Pete Seeger, that is. Taking one of his old songs that helped end one war (believe it or not) with the help of many younger musician friends, singing it into the next war and the next. They say there were only seven years without a war in the history of the world.

Keep singing.

photos:
freemuse.org

hilobrow.com

(IF YOU LOVE YOUR UNCLE SAM) BRING THEM HOME

If you love your Uncle Sam,
Bring them home, bring them home.
Support our boys in Vietnam,
Bring them home, bring them home.

It'll make our generals sad, I know,
Bring them home, bring them home.
They want to tangle with the foe,
Bring them home, bring them home.

They want to test their weaponry,
Bring them home, bring them home.
But here is their big fallacy,
Bring them home, bring them home.

I may be right, I may be wrong,
Bring them home, bring them home.
But I got a right to sing this song,
Bring them home, bring them home.

There's one thing I must confess,
Bring them home, bring them home.
I'm not really a pacifist,
Bring them home, bring them home.

If an army invaded this land of mine,
Bring them home, bring them home.
You'd find me out on the firing line,
Bring them home, bring them home.

Even if they brought their planes to bomb,
Bring them home, bring them home.
Even if they brought helicopters and napalm,
Bring them home, bring them home.

Show those generals their fallacy:
Bring them home, bring them home.
They don't have the right weaponry,
Bring them home, bring them home.

For defense you need common sense,
Bring them home, bring them home.
They don't have the right armaments,
Bring them home, bring them home.

The world needs teachers, books and schools,
Bring them home, bring them home.
And learning a few universal rules,
Bring them home, bring them home.

So if you love your Uncle Sam,
Bring them home, bring them home.
Support our boys in Vietnam,
Bring them home, bring them home.

Words and Music by Pete Seeger
© 1966 Storm King Music, Inc.

WAY OVER YONDER ~

One of the many hundreds of songs Woody Guthrie wrote and left behind, picked up by the next rover and done in their own method and style. The Guthrie words are never lost, rising with a glowing common ground. Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island was the home made by Woody and Marjorie Guthrie and their four children, a very productive household at the time for Guthrie's songwriting and association with other artists. The goodness of Billy Bragg would come years and years later to mine the spirit of the spot.

"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter. I try and write honestly about what I see around me now."

~Billy Bragg








Woody and Marjorie Guthrie


Woodrow Woody Guthrie (July 14, 1912-October 3, 1967) American songwriter; guitar, mandolin, fiddle, harmonica player; father of eight children; inspired by Dust Bowl, Leadbelly, American travels; dead-set influence on Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Bob Dylan. Encouraged to write his autobiography by folklorist Alan Lomax, the rambler did — Bound For Glory, published by Dutton in the center of WW2 — my G.I. father gave me his worn copy the year Guthrie died in 1967, (the same year Dylan returned to acoustic music and released his 8th album John Wesley Harding) — one of the great books handed down.















Billy Bragg: liveon35mm.wordpress.com
Woody & Marjorie Guthrie: memory.loc.gov
Bob Dylan & Ramblin Jack Elliott: John Cohen