woodysblues:

There’s all the other Woody books around, yet I can’t find this anywhere. Have you read it?

dustmaterial:

the front says “folk the system”

Asked why he’d scrawled “This Machine Kills Fascists” across the front of his guitar, Woody Guthrie explained: 

“Well, you see this guitar makes me feel like beatin’ th’ Fascists, an’ then that makes me sing how much I hate ‘em …When I sing fer a bunch of folks, folks workin’, fer soliders, sailors, seamen, that sort of makes all of us whip it up a little—then we all get ta feelin’ a little more like beatin’ ‘em, an’ ‘course if a Fascist then just sort of happens to git in our way, he just naturally comes out loser, that’s all.”

woodysblues:

“Woody, the dust bowl refugee, was the group’s repository of proletarian wisdom, the ultimate arbiter of taste. He was impossibly arrogant, affecting a general air of impatience with the other Almanac Singers’ hopelessly urban, middlye-class sensibilities, rarely raising his voice but maintaining his authority with grunts, shrugs, and paralytic stares. He had the feeling of a loaded gun about him.”

- Joe Klein in Woody Guthrie: A Life

theworldisgood:

Woody Guthrie 1943