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Slow burn, Samantha Keely Smith

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Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly.

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CLICK HERE to support Woody Guthrie Book Project: 26 Songs In 30 Days

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Sasquatch Books will release “26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land” on April 12, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with you. Really appreciate your support, thank you.

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Woody Guthrie,  Kean River

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Bonneville Power Poster

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Alan Lomax recommended Woody Guthrie to the Bonneville Power Administration in 1941 when the relatively new government agency was looking for an actor/narrator/songwriter for their proposed documentary film which ultimately would be called “The Columbia”. In their appeal to reach “the common man”, the BPA needed a folksinger like Guthrie. And who else to call than the fore-most expert on folk songs and a fellow Dept Of Interior employee, Lomax, who recorded Woody for the Library of Congress and helped arrange his Dust Bowl Ballad sessions for Victor in 1940. He was Guthrie’s biggest booster and whole-heartedly recommended Woody with a flow of superlatives over the phone from Washington, DC. 

“The idea that Woody would actually get a job writing ballads was just an inconceivable stroke, I felt like shouting over the telephone line, it was a laughing conversation all the way. I can remember the delight and sense of triumph I felt that Woody would get a chance to do this,” 

Lomax would later recollect. Donate to 26 Songs In 30 Days here. Purchase the book from Sasquatch Books April 12th, or pre-order on Amazon now.

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One of the very exciting aspects of my book is the opportunity to present original, hand-typed, Guthrie song manuscripts (lyrics) which have never been published before. I worked with the Guthrie family, researched at the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa, and ultimately attained the rights to publish the manuscripts (as photos) along with other never seen before Guthrie papers/photos from various collections and organizations. I believe “seeing” the original, hand-typed song lyrics from Woody’s hand has added a great amount of visual character to the book and enhance my story. This manuscript of “Oregon Trail” which was originally titled, “Gonna Hit That Oregon Line This Comin’ Fall” is a great example. Each chapter of my book features a song manuscript as photo on it’s facing page.

To support the success of this project, many of the organizations and repositories who helped with with this project have graciously donated several Thank You gifts for our campaign that you will see on our associated social networks. Without their help, I would not have been able to create this book which is full of cool ephemera like the stuff you’re seeing on this page. I’m indebted to them, and to YOU for contributing some dollars to this campaign. Anything helps! Thank you https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/woody-guthrie-book-project-26-songs-in-30-days/x/2212487#/

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Friends! The campaign for my book is LIVE and happening NOW. Can you spare a dime or two and support my project via this link on IndieGoGo? http://igg.me/at/26SongsIn30Days Check the perks!

This is a clip from “The Columbia”, a documentary film in which Woody Guthrie was commissioned to write folk songs promoting the ambitious Public Works projects on the Columbia River in the late 1930’s. His 26 Songs in 30 Days would promote the concept of Public Power and the delivery of electricity to rural areas of Oregon and Washington for the first time. His classic “Pastures Of Plenty” was written during this song cycle in 1941, a ballad forever linked to his legend and a song that brought to light the issue of migrant workers (Okies), and lent hope to Dust Bowl families looking for a brighter future in the Pacific Northwest. Woody supported the idea of a New Deal in which the government could do something to reform America and create programs (and dams) that would help common people in the form of lower electrical rates, land reclamation for independent family farmers, and ultimately change our reliance on private power companies who controlled our natural resources (rivers). This resonated with Woody Guthrie who not only eventually wrote “This Land Is Our Land” (he was working on it while driving around The Columbia Basin), but how our “Pastures Of Plenty” must always be free and that opportunity should be afforded to all people. His Columbia River Songs were hopeful ballads of a better place after 10 years of economic depression and hardship. It’s still heavy after all these years.

*SIDENOTE- this version you are hearing is the lost minor-key version of the song which only appears on the movie soundtrack which eventually was released in 1949. Guthrie later recorded the song for Moe Asch ofSmithsonian Folkways Recordings but changed it to a major-key, which sounds very different. A very scratchy copy exists in poor fidelity, but is nearly unlistenable. It’s a long story…. read the book! Woody Guthrie Center Billy Bragg Pickathon The Alan Lomax Archive appreciation societyLight In The Attic Records

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CLICK HERE to support Woody Guthrie Book Project: 26 Songs In 30 Days

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Keith Haring, Untitled (September 14, 1986). Acrylic and enamel paint on canvas with metal grommets, 95 x 192 in.

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Jindrich Halabala, Streamline armchair, 1930. Made by UP Zavodny, Brno. Via zeitlos berlin

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Needles, CA 2015

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Yoga House  Architects: WMR Arquitectos Location: Matanzas, Navidad, Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Region, Chile Area: 170.0 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Sergio Pirrone

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How on earth would you feed a city of over 200,000 people when the land around you was a swampy lake? Seems like an impossible task, but the Aztec managed it by creating floating gardens known as chinampas, then they farmed them intensively.

These ingenious creations were built up from the lake bed by piling layers of mud, decaying vegetation and reeds. This was a great way of recycling waste from the capital city Tenochtitlan. Each garden was framed and held together by wooden poles bound by reeds and then anchored to the lake floor with finely pruned willow trees. The Aztecs also dredged mud from the base of the canals which both kept the waterways clear and rejuvenate the nutrient levels in the gardens.

A variety of crops were grown, most commonly maize or corn, beans, chillies, squash, tomatoes, edible greens such as quelite and amaranth. Colourful flowers were also grown, essential produce for religious festivals and ceremonies. Each plot was systematically planned, the effective use of seedbeds allowed continuous planting and harvesting of crops.

Between each garden was a canal which enabled canoe transport. Fish and birds populated the water and were an additional source of food. [x]

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Jared Jackson

Police Brutality / Inequality

2015

Acrylic on canvas