16 Feb 13 - 12:31 PM (#3480403) Subject: 'We are all Woody's children.' From: John MacKenzie The wonderful Billy Bragg said this on Radio 4 (UK), this morning, and I thought it a wonderful thing to say, as it is true in so many ways, but how well he encapsulated it. |
16 Feb 13 - 01:50 PM (#3480426) Subject: RE: 'We are all Woody's children.' From: Mark Ross In the late '60's I became acquainted with members of the Guthrie family, Arlo, his mother Marjorie, his siblings Nora, and Joady. I asked Marjorie if it was possible to visit Woody. She told me that it was too upsetting to him because at that time his disease made it impossible to communicate with strangers.; A couple of years after he passed on, I said to Marjorie Guthrie that one of my biggest regrets was not ever having gotten to meet him. She replied that I shouldn't feel any regrets because there was a little bit of Woody in each of us. Mark Ross |
16 Feb 13 - 02:43 PM (#3480450) Subject: RE: 'We are all Woody's children.' From: John MacKenzie Nicely put Mark. Thanks. |
20 Nov 15 - 02:30 AM (#3752244) Subject: ADD: We Are All Woody's Children (Dough Mishkin) From: Joe Offer There's a song built on that phrase: WOODY'S CHILDREN (Doug Mishkin) CHORUS We are all Woody's children We are all glory bound When we smile, when we sing his songs We show we know the truth he found In your Oklahoma home A troubadour all set to roam You and your family felt the Dust Bowl blow You sang your songs and let us know You rode the rails as hobos do Saw hard-hit people scraping through Took scattered voices feeling small You made a glorious chorus of us all Every business man or woman in a suit Every migrant farmer picking fruit When they listen to your song They know there's one family where we belong You raised us well, so we became Your children proud to share your name Bound for glory – you showed the way Bound together – that's how we'll stay Now we children know what to do It takes hard work to make a song come true The time has come to follow thru It's time to make this land for me & you ——w & m: Doug Mishkin © 1987 Douglas B. Mishkin. On his Woody's Children. Pete Seeger once said that all the folksingers who came after Woody Guthrie were "Woody's children." http://www.woodyschildren.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Xu7uk2JnI |
20 Nov 15 - 05:20 AM (#3752265) Subject: RE: 'We are all Woody's children.' From: GUEST,henryp 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 |
20 Nov 15 - 05:44 AM (#3752269) Subject: RE: 'We are all Woody's children.' From: Steve Shaw What was the radio programme, John? |
20 Nov 15 - 07:20 AM (#3752281) Subject: RE: 'We are all Woody's children.' From: GUEST,henryp Sat 16 Feb 2013 09:00 BBC RADIO 4 Saturday Live Saturday Live Billy Bragg, John McCarthy at the Arirang Games, Debbie Wiseman plays snooker, Dawn O'Porter's Inheritance Tracks Sian Williams & Richard Coles with musician Billy Bragg who also plays live; Bernadette Russell who did a good deed every day for a year and photographer Giles Duley who lost three limbs on assignment in Afghanistan. John McCarthy looks in on the Arirang Games in North Korea, composer Debbie Wiseman plays snooker with JP Devlin; a listener tells us about her discovery of Chicken Spectacles and writer and broadcaster Dawn O'Porter shares her Inheritance Tracks. Producer: Corinna Jones. Download MP3 Available now 1 hour, 28 minutes |