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Thread #13190   Message #110047
Posted By: Art Thieme
31-Aug-99 - 11:45 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mean Talking Blues (Woody Guthrie)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mean talking blues--Woody Guthrie
I surely agree. PLEASE check out Alan Lomax's book "THE LAND WHERE THE BLUES BEGAN" (Pantheon Books---New York---1993) for the first, allegedly, "truthful" look at what he and his dad, John Lomax, encountered in the south when they were doing their collecting work there. Some of it is terribly hard to read. And Alan does not gloss over the fact that he, and especially his father, had southern racist views too. We are all victims of our inheritances and our upbringing.

Art