Woody Guthrie
American Icons: This Land is Your Land
This is the national anthem we actually know the words to. Americans sing it at school and summer camp; Bruce Springsteen sang it at President Obama’s inauguration. Yet Woody Guthrie’s song was once branded anti-American, even Communist. Pete Seeger tells Kurt Andersen how Guthrie wrote it as a sarcastic response to “God Bless America,” and […]
Tea Party Troubadours
Who says protest songs are just for liberals? Chris Cassone, a right-wing Woody Guthrie, and MC Hi-Caliber, aka Mr. Conservative, have a beef with the government. They’re channeling their frustrations into their music and bugging liberals in the process. Produced by Studio 360’s Derek John.
Reggie Watts & Woody Guthrie
Studio 360’s series American Icons continues with a look at Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.” Kurt Andersen speaks with Pete Seeger and others about how the song found its place in American culture. Later in the hour, Kurt talks with sci-fi writer William Gibson, who chose not to set his new book Zero […]