Hearth Music
Tumblr blog for Hearth Music, a music publicity agency and freelance group of music lovers. We work with the best Roots/Americana/World musicians.
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Vote for the best tattoo from the Newport Folk Festival! This one of Woody Guthrie is my favorite. Thanks to Grass Clippings and Garland Harwood for these pics!
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KEXP posted our rave review of the new Old Crow Medicine Show album. “It sounds like a 21-st century version of Woody Guthrie’s vision, all hopped up on populist pride and pissed-off that times they aren’t a-changin’.”
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He knew nobody in New York City was going to open their ears for a wickedly articulate editorialist Commie with ideas about labor and feminism and civil rights and the distribution of wealth in this country. But if he made himself a bit of a novelty act, he could sneak in verses about property ownership and welfare lines.Kim Ruehl, No Depression’s editor, writing about Woody Guthrie.
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Jack Guthrie, Woody Guthrie’s cousin. Had a career as a rough-edged Western singer. “Oakie Boogie”
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You little bastard. You said in twelve verses what it took me an entire book to say.John Steinbeck’s note to Woody Guthrie after hearing Guthrie’s ballad “Tom Joad,” inspired by The Grapes of Wrath.
