On August 28, over breakfast at our hotel coffee shop during the Ottawa Folk Festival, Arlo Guthrie and I talked about a bunch of things including the legacy and enduring relevancy of Woody Guthrie's work, the Jib Jab/Bush-Kerry parody of "This Land Is Your Land," the work of the Guthrie Center in the old Alice's Restaurant church, the emerging careers of his daughter and son-in-law, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, the importance of Harold Leventhal and the new documentary film, Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal.

I'll be playing that conversation, interspersed with a bunch of songs, at about 9:30 on Thursday's edition of Folk Roots/Folk Branches.

Folk Roots/Folk Branches is heard Thursday mornings from 9:00-11:30 (Eastern) on CKUT, 90.3 FM, in Montreal. The live stream, and archives (available for two months after broadcast), are available from the Folk Roots/Folk Branches web site.

Mike Regenstreif