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Posted By: GUEST,henryp
20-Nov-15 - 05:20 AM
Thread Name: 'We are all Woody's children.'
Subject: RE: 'We are all Woody's children.'
In 1990, BBC Radio 2 broadcast a series of programmes titled Tom Paxton's America; Tom Paxton introduces America's so-called
'Woody's Children', who have kept up the Woody Guthrie singer-songwriter tradition in the United States.
Wednesday 29 August 1990; Tonight's programme features Rockcreek, David Massengill and John Gorka. Producer Geoffrey Hewitt
Tom Paxton admitted he was one of Woody's Children. In the introduction to his songbook, Rambling Boy, he wrote;
I have a habit - the habit of sitting in Joe's on West Fourth Street or the kitchen of the Gaslight or in my genuine Danish three-geared reclining chair, trying to carry on the work that Woody began. The reference to Guthrie is no accident, for those who write songs today (Dylan, Chandler, Marrs, Ochs, LaFarge, Reynolds, Spoelstra, et al) owe it all to Woody. He showed us how and he told us why.
Tom Paxton, New York City, Winter 1964-65