Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People by Woody Guthrie

The book is a hard-hitting history and social commentary as well as a songbook. In addition to 123 photographs and 195 songs, this edition features an introductory note by Nora Guthrie, the daughter of Woody Guthrie and overseer of the Woody Guthrie Foundation. Summary: Twenty-seven years in the making (1940-67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research - Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator of three generations of Americans to their musical heritage.In. Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People New York: Oak, 1967. Music transcribed and edited and with an afterword by Pete Seeger Guthrie and Seeger were among the most important contributors of music to the American Left. Future songwriters can learn from the honesty, the courage, the simplicity, and the frankness of these hard-hitting songs. “Music is one of the things that will save us. “Now, at the turn of the century, the millennium, what’s the future of these songs?” he asks. But more important, he tells us what’s right and why it still matters, noting songs that have become famous the world over: “Union Maid,” “Which Side Are You On?,” “Worried Man Blues,” “Midnight Special,” and “Tom Joad.”

With characteristic modesty, he tells us what’s missing and what’s wrong with the collection. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. In his afterword, Pete Seeger recounts the long history of collecting and publishing this anthology of Depression-era, union-hopeful, and New Deal melodies. 15 Hard Hitting Songs for hard-Hit People, compiled by Alan Lomax, notes by Woody Guthrie (New York: Oak Publications, 1967). Twenty-seven years in the making (194067), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical researchAlan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer and Pete Seeger. Twenty-seven years in the making (1940–67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator who has introduced three generations of Americans to their musical heritage. They have their music and we have ours: The Political Woody Guthrie.

By Woody Guthrie, Alan Lomax, and Pete Seeger

Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People by Woody Guthrie