https://americansongwriter.com/wood...album-more-than-50-years-after-singers-death/ Woody at Home, Vol. 1 & 2, which is due out Aug. 14, will include 20 songs and two spoken-word interludes Guthrie performed. Included on the album is a new version of Guthrie’s protest song “This is Your Land.” The LP will also feature 13 songs that fans could previously only experience through Guthrie’s written lyrics.
here's a banger from Prague cover of Uriah Heep's tune but I prefer this version for the heavier bass
a message; a word.— scott topics™️ (@scottpb.bsky.social) 2025-08-07T18:23:17.348Z just saw his older bro a couple weeks ago
It’s amazing how much protest music there is and how often people on the right misunderstand it. I’d venture to say that the majority of “organic” music is anti establishment. Pro right or pro establishment music is blatantly biased. It’s not nuanced or symbolic.
does this jesse welles guy have any stuff that's actually good? cause i just watched that colbert performance and woof much as i agree with the message it was just unbelievably corny and on-the-nose
anyway to get that taste outta my mouth i had to go back to some dbt. this is how you write a goddamn protest song!
Curiously (and purposefully) Chumbawamba changed directions from a far left punk band to take advantage of capitalism but never lost their punk roots or politics.
Impressive how you turned both artistry and protest into a competition at the same time and seemed to get angry about it. Kind of an odd thing to do, ifam fwiw yolo ymmv
Some guy calling himself "Sam Stone" wrote the best protest song I've heard in a long time and then promptly disappeared from the public
are you saying that simply because something is protest music it shouldn't be critiqued? i have loved that Haley Heynderickx/Max García Conover record, so i'm not averse to newer protest music or anything. just find all of the jesse welles material i've come across incredibly trite
You’re fine you to like whatever you want. I guess I missed the critique, I just saw you shit on something you didn’t like. And you tried to compare mostly acoustic folk music to DBT. And it looked like you watched one video and didn’t listen to anything else before caping for DBT for whatever reason.
are corny and trite not legitimate critiques? I’m sry that I didn’t write a full pitchfork review lol I used DBT as a contrast because I think they strike the balance really well between being direct while still accomplishing the “show, don’t tell” adage, something that seems to elude that Welles fella
I didn’t ask for a pitchfork review. I guess corny and trite are critiques, but they don’t mean much to anyone but you really. When I saw him on various cable TV shows singing his ICE song I was just happy there’s a relatively clear and concise message being broadcast to a wide audience from a new voice in folk music. He used to just be in the woods under power lines pumping out new messages near daily on YouTube with not near as much reach. It was mostly social commentary in folk music style. Didn’t occur to me to wish it were one of my favorite bands instead, or to think that the message would be better as something more complex that people needed to interpret first in order for them to get the meaning or the message and potentially share it forward. Seems like one of the options for the false either/or choice you setup for yourself is a more effective method for a protest message on a specific issue with hopes of potentially reaching a wider audience.