The Garden Song. I like this Arlo Guthrie cat.
How in the hell have I been alive 35 years and not enjoyed this so-called "folk music". I've spent the whole weekend reading about and listening to Arlo and Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan. I know they were communists and all but this is good shit. Kinda makes me miss smoking weed.
Arlo Guthrie is a Ron Paul guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlo_Guthrie#Politics
A registered Republican, Guthrie endorsed Texas Congressman Ron Paul for the 2008 Republican Party nomination. He said, "I love this guy. Dr. Paul is the only candidate I know of who would have signed the Constitution of the United States had he been there. I'm with him, because he seems to be the only candidate who actually believes it has as much relevance today as it did a couple of hundred years ago. I look forward to the day when we can work out the differences we have with the same revolutionary vision and enthusiasm that is our American legacy." He told The New York Times Magazine that he is a Republican because, "We had enough good Democrats. We needed a few more good Republicans. We needed a loyal opposition."
Frederic Bastiat
When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law. - The Law Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Government
I'm only 3 years younger than you but I got into the folk at age 18 and have sort of been stuck in it ever since.
It's kind of funny that Arlo was a Ron Paul guy when his dad was such a leftist.
Freedom living.
...injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected.
Thank you for the filibuster Rand! Thank you Ron and Carol!
I'll be damned. How did I ever miss this? Thanks and +rep.Originally Posted by Occam's Banana
In America today there remains two factions.
The Federalist and the Anti-Federalist.
Neither of the two dominating political parties belong to the latter.
You can't be one and the other..
I'm thinking about learning to play the banjo and walking around the office protesting.
Was the folk revival a communist front? It sure seems that way from what I've read.
From what I understand, Pete Seeger was going around to the "Pioneer Camps" full of red-diaper children and teaching them these folk songs with sometimes hidden/sometimes not communist messages in the 40s and 50s. Lew Rockwell calls him the red troubador. Anyhow, this was an interesting article on the subject.
It's like with anything. You and I have could have an alliance for a while with radical leftists based on foreign policy and civil rights.
Here's yesterday's example:
Here's an anarchist leftist that tells the real truth:
Pete Seeger never had the balls nor intellect to discuss such things.
Went to see Arlo live with my mom a few years ago, such good memories. He even signed two copies of "Mooses Come Walking" for my kids.
Mom continues to be such a non-informed lefty, but over the years Arlo and I have at least convinced her that Ron Paul is not as evil as the rest of the republicans.
Here he is singing a song some unknown songwriter (at the time) wrote and performed for Guthrie after a show in a bar years ago.
Don't know if I enjoy his singing or his tales more. But I do think he's more fun live.
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