Saturday, December 18, 2010

Joan Baez sings Woody Guthrie for our times

3 comments:

  1. Thank you. That has always been one of my favourite Baez songs. And this morning it made me weep.

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  2. Thanks Pav. It's very odd. This song came into my head a fortnight ago so I went and purchased it then from iTunes: the Judy Collins version as well as an ensemble version by Nanci Griffith with Lucinda Williams, Odetta, Steve Earle and Tish Hinjosa. As I listened to it, it had an incredible poignancy even before the events off Christmas Island this past week.

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