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No Kings in America (lyric video) - Lisa Bastoni

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Ry Cooder-Taxes on the farmer feeds us all

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Yon Yonson

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“It’s a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.”

- Woody Guthrie #botd

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Bob Dylan - Song to Woody Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song ’Bout a funny ol’ world that’s a-comin’ along Seems sick an’ it’s hungry, it’s tired an’ it’s torn It looks like it’s a-dyin’ an’ it’s hardly been born 

A 20 year old Bob Dylan had two original compositions on his debut album. Song to Woody is one of them. Written after Dylan visited Woody Guthrie in Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains NJ, where Guthrie aged 48 was dying from Huntington’s Disease. Doctors at the time had little information about how to treat Huntington’s disease, the degenerative illness he had, and there was no better place for him to go, according to his daughter, Nora. Dylan brought paper, pencils and cigarettes to Guthrie in the hospital, played music for him and even brought other musicians, including the acoustic bluesman John Hammond. At Woody’s request, Dylan and his friends played only Woody’s songs, his daughter said. She also praised Dylan for letting Woody preserve his “dignity” by not offering to light his cigarettes for him, even though Woody had to struggle to light them.

Nora’s older brother, Arlo Guthrie, “jammed” with Dylan on guitars the first time the young Dylan visited the Guthrie home in Brooklyn in 1961, when Arlo was “just 13 or 14.” Dylan, who was living in Manhattan, “went to the hospital quite a lot,” Nora said. “He was a doll to our family.”

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Satellites, Planet Earth, 1957-2025

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The Kinks - Time Song (1968)

This rarity was included on the 2018 50th anniversary of The Kinks Are the The Village Green Society. You can kind of tell it was a leftover simply from the song title, but honestly, even their castoffs are better than most other bands' best stuff.

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Time Has Come Today · The Chambers Brothers

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