Woody Guthrie Song Paul Should Do

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What Woody Guthrie song should Paul cover?

I mean, he's got the rolled-up sleeves.

I'm thinking, "Let's Go Ridin in the Car-Car" ... except I guess Paul took care of that on Sorry Ma. I don't know, maybe he could add an apathetic verse to "This Land Is Your Land" .... wait, wait, I got it: "This Land Ain't Your Land"!

[prine]

Maybe he could do something off the Wilco/Billy Bragg Cd's of Guthrie. My vote is for At My Window Sad and Lonely. Don't know if anyone knows those albums, but you gotta pick them up if you like Paul/Wilco/Guthrie.

[torethatbridgeout]

Maybe if it was At My Basement Window ...

I have a soft spot for those mermaid ave. records, because it was a review of the first one that said wilco could occasionally rock out like the mats that got me to buy my first CD in years and reawakened me to pop music

that said, I'm not sure Paul would go for playing Tweedy or Bragg's music to Woody's words.

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" ...his singing and playing are jarring: his voice bone-gray, dry and stiff, and indifferent to pitch; his guitar work spare and ragged, and frequently out of tune. Aesthetically, Guthrie was less a socialist than an anarchist, contemptuous of the prevailing rules and standards."


www.newyorker.com/critics/books/

www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall03/004759.htm