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Margaret Killjoy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Everyone really likes them for some reason. And so that's like... There is a specific point. And if you're going to be a criminal, if you go hard enough and make everyone like you, there's a certain safety in that.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

That you probably wouldn't find today. Just to be clear, anyone listening, that you probably wouldn't find today. You will not find today.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

That you probably wouldn't find today. Just to be clear, anyone listening, that you probably wouldn't find today. You will not find today.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

That you probably wouldn't find today. Just to be clear, anyone listening, that you probably wouldn't find today. You will not find today.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

That's good. It's so interesting to me because I... If you'd say folk music in different places, you mean something so completely different, right? American folk music is this like Woody Guthrie kind of vibe thing, whereas in almost any other country, you're looking at stuff that's a little bit more like

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

That's good. It's so interesting to me because I... If you'd say folk music in different places, you mean something so completely different, right? American folk music is this like Woody Guthrie kind of vibe thing, whereas in almost any other country, you're looking at stuff that's a little bit more like

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

That's good. It's so interesting to me because I... If you'd say folk music in different places, you mean something so completely different, right? American folk music is this like Woody Guthrie kind of vibe thing, whereas in almost any other country, you're looking at stuff that's a little bit more like

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

technically interesting like like musically yes i don't know i have a lot of thoughts about like folk and folk instrumentation and music and all that but i think what he's describing is great and specifically that thing that it's like this is the stuff that people make up you know it's not fancy yeah and it's also how poor people without really any other idea of how to have a voice

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

technically interesting like like musically yes i don't know i have a lot of thoughts about like folk and folk instrumentation and music and all that but i think what he's describing is great and specifically that thing that it's like this is the stuff that people make up you know it's not fancy yeah and it's also how poor people without really any other idea of how to have a voice

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

technically interesting like like musically yes i don't know i have a lot of thoughts about like folk and folk instrumentation and music and all that but i think what he's describing is great and specifically that thing that it's like this is the stuff that people make up you know it's not fancy yeah and it's also how poor people without really any other idea of how to have a voice

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah, yeah, totally.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah, yeah, totally.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah, yeah, totally.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah. I mean, that's the thing about like populist and popular stuff is it can really go either way. Yeah. But it's like, yeah, still on some fundamental level. Interesting.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah. I mean, that's the thing about like populist and popular stuff is it can really go either way. Yeah. But it's like, yeah, still on some fundamental level. Interesting.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Yeah. I mean, that's the thing about like populist and popular stuff is it can really go either way. Yeah. But it's like, yeah, still on some fundamental level. Interesting.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: How Woody Guthrie Turned Folk Music into a Weapon

Just to keep going with all the weird family connections, my great-grandfather was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter. And yeah, he just wrote music that he didn't own the copyright to. He wrote the B-sides for more popular musicians like