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Super Bowl Songs: Pete Seeger &“Pittsburgh Town”

As you prepare for a day of watching commercials occasionally interrupted by a football game played by the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers, Chimesfreedom considers songs inspired by the...

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Don’t Kill My Baby and My Son

On May 25, 1911, a mob lynched an African-American woman and her teenage son near Okemah, Oklahoma. The lynching was a response to the death of a well-respected white deputy sheriff, Goerge Loney....

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Pop Culture Roundup (Mid-January 2012)

In case you were too busy driving around with your dog on your car roof or wondering how to finish that research paper with Wikipedia going dark for a day in protest of a proposed law, here are some...

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So Long It’s Been Good to Know You (Woody at 100)

This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth Woody Guthrie, who was born on July 14, 1912. In honor of his upcoming birthday, Chimesfreedom will periodically consider some of the songs and life...

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Land of Hope & Dreams, This Train, and People Get Ready

Bruce Springsteen released his new album Wrecking Ball (2012) to good reviews. Instead of adding to the reviews of the album, Chimesfreedom takes a close look at the album’s “Land of Hope and Dreams,”...

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Tom Joad’s Inspiration (Woody at 100)

{Woody at 100 is our continuing series celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Woody Guthrie in 1912. Check out our other posts on Guthrie too. } In 1940 after John Ford made John...

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Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody at 100)

{Woody at 100 is our continuing series celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Woody Guthrie in 1912. Check out our other posts on Guthrie too. } Woody Guthrie’s song about the outlaw Pretty...

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This Land is Your Land: The Angry Protest Song That Became an American...

{Woody at 100 is our continuing series celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the birth of American singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie on July 14, 1912. Check out our other posts on Guthrie and the Woody...

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Woody Guthrie’s “Peace Call” (Woody at 100)

“Peace Call” is one of Woody Guthrie’s lesser-known songs, perhaps because it was lost for awhile. I discovered the song not too long ago on the excellent Guthrie tribute CD, Ribbon of Highway Endless...

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The Killing of “Two Good Men” 85 Years Ago (Woody at 100)

On August 23, 1927, Massachusetts executed Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolemeo Vanzetti. The two admitted anarchists were Italian immigrants executed for the 1921 murder of a person during an armed...

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Tell Me, What Were Their Names? (Woody at 100)

On October 31, 1941, the USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-552 submarine near Iceland. At the time, the Reuben James was part of the Neutrality Patrol that guarded ships making passage...

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The Children of “The Dust Bowl” (Short Review)

Several years ago, I read Timothy Egan‘s The Worst Hard Time, a National Book Award winner about the dust storms and drought that struck the High Plains in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The...

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Mumford & Sons Join Elvis Costello on “Ghost of Tom Joad”

Mumford & Sons recently collaborated with Elvis Costello to record Bruce Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad.” They made the recording for Bono’s One campaign to get world leaders to focus on...

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No Longer Just “Deportees”

The nameless “deportees” of Woody Guthrie‘s “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos” are being remembered by name on a monument unveiled this week in Fresno, California. The song and the memorial commemorate a...

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Anniversary of “The Grapes of Wrath”

John Steinbeck‘s novel The Grapes of Wrath was published 75 years ago on April 14, 1939. The book, which recounts the struggles of the tenant farmers Joad family moving from Oklahoma to California,...

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Where Woody Guthrie Wrote “This Land Is Your Land”

Reading My Name is New York: Ramblin’ Around Woody Guthrie’s Town by Nora Guthrie and the Woody Guthrie Archives, I was surprised to discover that I often walk past where Woody Guthrie wrote “This...

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The Cowboy Philosopher Will Rogers

On November 4, 1879, William Penn Adair Rogers was born on a ranch in Cherokee Indian territory, near what is now Oologah, Oklahoma. The family called the young boy by the name “Will,” and he would...

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Songs About Homelessness

Music can address societal issues in different ways. Sometimes a song will tackle a big issue head on, but more often than not, issues are addressed through personal stories or observations. One...

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Lucinda Williams Explores “Just the Working Life”

One of my favorite CDs of the last few years is the double album Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (2014) by Lucinda Williams. The album revealed that Williams is still at her peak eleven studio...

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They’re Selling Postcards of the Hanging: The Real Lynching in Dylan’s...

On June 15, 1920, residents of Duluth, Minnesota lynched three African-American circus workers: Isaac McGhie, Elias Clayton and Elmer Jackson. An 8-year-old child named Abraham Zimmerman lived in...

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