Creative Person; 22; The Folk Singer

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all the words and music of their songs the gaslight was a second home here where many of them got their start they can always count on an appreciative audience the fbi this week

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play we can yeah well i'm a quality colors my first year's report is making a felony to stop reading an orphanage lot of things in the north a lot of the unknown i'm in the middle of a lone challenger started to write and the music just running around stories and satires and an announcer dramas of became the thing that happens is that i want i'm a writer and then the one element of the charm and it all came together the liam what movement in finland's year new area to the oven to a song has an emotional action i thought they're thinking person interview that on the words that something was beginning and where the curtains to look too eager to this time they

get the willpower to have communication going the solitary work anymore being sold on a mass level it is quite possible rather than the melee because i'm this is not where will was god's love one when it's not if i had a hammer it's not a solid in the commercial arrangements old without thinking of the words which was the whole big difference that a lot of a lot of people argued well as topical is it made it or not they are you know all the songs that were selling about just mentioned i've been a republican the israelis were safe topical songs songs that that could be overlooked a narrow and what's happening now as the songs that can appeal to the impossible to be arraigned or go to be changed around blonde like to one thousand now

reaching a mass audience and individual americans that for the first time americans have been that real honest whether the controversy the pay to play me the rapidly growing tropical song audience was composed mainly of young why in the same way than in earlier generation responded to the labor songs of woody guthrie in the thirties they respond to the labor songs of goats and six we're going to criticize oh

man ma ma ahead and that drives the idea that now david ottaway is a matter was that mr woody guthrie a patron saint of the topical songwriting has been in failing health for several years this place has been taken by pete seeger was been singing topical songs for more than two decades well it's humans have a lot of young people and thirty got the idea to move out of here in one sense you could say puerto rico song with a tropical storm in the beginning it was george bernard shaw

isn't all good are basically propaganda michelangelo painting or beethoven symphony or a play by sean i think so some really good song it's it's trying to say some even solo little baby don't say where papa's going to buy you can burn oil it's not just long time pretend to sleep your calling up all kinds of images of kids life i know when i sing lullabies mccain's they call that young didn't want rather than spend a lot of their propaganda i think it was back in the nineteen thirties that is so remarkable senator from kentucky aunt molly jackson he knew lots of old english which make up songs to

her husband was a coal miner in nineteen thirty two they were trying to unionize legal news in eastern kentucky and she became an enthusiastic supporter giving speeches for bin laden songs too are you so there was a little like me as well to some people this was just strange and not really music but to me it was very exciting to him his songs were about things going on that day in nineteen thirties most of the popular music heard on the radio you move from spoon you do and when i came across songs that were the actual events of the day it seemed very lonely of mahler song the song we go through

the fall of aleppo it singing santa barbara wine makes me very happy that a whole bunch of young people come along now and picked up this idea of take it far beyond where i could miller who woody guthrie you learned songs and has been wary of his approach he wasn't trying bright flashes something that would hit your head militants snuck up on you the deceptively simple first time you hear it it was just on a low flying but after a couple years of singing it you realize the songs are really well i think people like tom paxton oh the present rulers and capture this idea that tom paxton since a song called what did you learn in school today who they knew little boy or mining

learn in school today their lawyer my name i learned to washington so to sell them back bodies the economy did you learn in school today or a mind what you learn in school today girl boy of my i learned the policemen are my friend i learned just this memory and i learned the martyrs die for the crimes even if we make a mistake sometimes learned in school today were learned and what he learned school today lawyer mind what did you learn in school today lawyer meyer i learned our government mouthpiece tongs are always right now our leaders our finest men and we them again and again

and that they have total earnings today i learn we're not all that i learned about the great ones we have had we brought in germany and in france and some that i might get my jam in atlanta learnings cure the baby i'd love to have our schools teach teach history little more alarmed us to lower the stuff i prefer to buy preferred to teach my kids the founders of our country were very very human people with her human fall as high a moment when chief influence

and obviously the only option additional material inevitably singing got to be you know the audience is what appears to those who clean and clear cut and straightforward and i had a natural colors are trying to capture the same thing in my own son's prison the country i come from bristol oklahoma which is just twenty six miles from woody's they came from different worlds middle class family in an entirely different time and i wasn't i'm not a native born so i really grew up

differently than we that i've tried at different times to be woody guthrie as someone has an iphone that we're trying to speak to somebody else's lips says is not the answer you have to you have mr tyrone wondering why don't we end up an atom bomb on moscow nineteen forty five we had the chance and will again played live so

he is has the army in my time on the whole damn world gone wrong is movies others j edgar hoover and the manpower in

albany tiny on her alma mater know i don't really want said oh i'd like to be remembered as the moment to do something you already knew is big news it's hard to tell where are the individual author begins and where the old tradition leave so they're all intermingled usually a cry of the american revolution well most people

do if a gay playwright poetry at all the riders in crisis and allies with a lot of poems about them right now good question or human beings could be with shrinking world buffy sainte marie is a graduate of the university of massachusetts with a degree in education an oriental philosophy here on the border between new york and pennsylvania where the seneca indians used to wear bandit is now under construction she sings now that the buffalo's long haul you

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isaac and in manhattan and i saw an indian i'm her plane head come to be associated with many different political views the civil rights question has been closed again again again by people who are in the folk singing well i concentrated more on human rights which are not to be conserved which are not to be confused with civil rights their civil rights victory gay

rights and very often today is worth hundreds of years ago the names have been mistreated after being mistreated in the case though well the iraqis in tucson in the cow frying in sort of received recently twenty two cents an acre for their land in many of the people in montana i haven't they're that kind because they're not getting the proper kind of consideration that reason being broken the tree of cancer with dam was broken skull the pickering treaty and it'll have gone up by washington in exchange for services that they not be indians had done during the evolution and the treaty was unilaterally broken by the united states government this was just last year in order that a flood control so called

ban might be built in the allegheny county however indians hired an engineer to find out if the dam were necessary and if it were necessary that they be evicted in order for a firm controlled and you can go to any area and know it wasn't it was there that began to go there on their way to alternative sites that would save the government money and enable begins to stay with her like in possession of the land available and has taken back the names were evicted is going all over the country this world needs a new approach i personally have found my way in the world which does not necessarily mean singing that i had found my identity in the world now i am not telling any younger generation to forget mimicking me or any reason access that when one is trying to find his own way the

only way to do it is to go ahead and give a new world could be a new generation that i can't possibly know sooner or later each person and each generation has to pick up the broad and carry it themselves most of the young topical centers create their songs in the midst of an active socialite like the folk song artists of the depression they find their raw material in the issues of the day but buffy sainte marie is essentially alone are going her own way and writing out of the intense personal feeling of her private life the parent child regionally of creaminess and i was raised with their family lawyers indian of the knick knack tried to wakefield massachusetts and another town that's of a late last

name attended school like high school unlike much like every other american a canadian kid i like cars in nevada republican new york and i began saying the coffeehouses this gnashing queen yeah you often play a spy that can again i just came outside my living playing nj

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me i know to write topical song will you need is a good time and i do but it was somewhat harder to write a good one and to find an audience for testing pete seeger new york's village gate has instituted a series of sunday afternoon workshop were established and beginning writers can bring their songs for criticism perhaps these young people who don't have a clear program for saving the world but in the process of finding themselves they feel they've discovered many

things that are wrong with own country through their music they found a way to communicate effectively and head bandages antibiotic they may be at the morning there is a key yeah anna

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