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Woody Guthrie - Bad Repetation In the light of the release of the Woody Guthrie box set ' My Dusty Road ' I'm gonna share this great Woody Guthrie song about wanting to go with a gal and kiss the gal he loves in the daylight who is a high-class lady but he can't due to his bad repetation. Not reputation, repetation. Also, if you have a chance try to read Bound for Glory , it's a great read.

Woody Guthrie is the train whistle blowing off in the distance. He is the smell of the coal exhaust. He is the drip of sweat rolling down the back of your neck telling you that it's either time to stop, or time to press on. He embodied the sticker "this machine kills Fascist's" and he is out to do more good...postumously. Now through a box set compilation some of his greatest work and some hidden gems unearthed in a Brooklyn basement, Woody shares his music yet again. My Dusty Road comes [...]

Too bad Woody Guthrie isn't around for the American Automobile Empire's Blue Monday - we'd have a new parody anthem by dinnertime. Lazarus machines aside, anti-bigwigs and folkies of all walks will want to snag My Dusty Road , a new box set boasting tracks of cleaner quality than the flurry of collections released as of late. Rounder Records culled this treasure trove from daughter Nora Guthrie, who rescued the forgotten tapes from a stranger's basement. Documentary filmmaker Peter Frumkin, who appropriated six of the recordings for his American Masters production of Woody Guthrie: [...]