This land is your land

[rpmurphy]

How come wilco never covered this song on mermaid ave? Too trendy?

[rockinrob]

mermaid avenue was made from woody guthrie manuscripts. He never recorded the songs and no one remembered how they went, so wilco and billy bragg made music to fit them.

 

Obviously, this land is your land is well known and was recorded. The whole point of the record was to save lost songs.

[LouieB]

Trendy? If it is it has been trendy for oh....about 60 or more years.

 

I am sure Jeff Tweedy covered it at some point....every who ever picked up a guitar has played it.

 

 

LouieB

[Central Scrutinizer]

mermaid avenue was made from woody guthrie manuscripts. He never recorded the songs and no one remembered how they went, so wilco and billy bragg made music to fit them.

 

Obviously, this land is your land is well known and was recorded. The whole point of the record was to save lost songs.

Guthrie recorded a version of At My Window Sad and Lonely.

[IATTBYB]

every who ever picked up a guitar has played it.

 

 

 

I have picked up a guitar.

 

I have never played This Land Is Your Land.

[Guest Speed Racer]

Ditto.

[jff]

Tritto.

[isadorah]

I think This Land is Your Land was written to counter the song God Bless America.

[froggie]

Tritto.

 

quattro

[Doug C]

I remember in elementary school chorus we could only sing it sans the so-called Socialist verse:

 

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there

And that sign said - no trespassin'

But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!

Now that side was made for you and me!

 

That was a common practice back then as was the Americanism versus Communism class that was a high school graduation requirement.

[anthony]

quattro

 

Uhhh...what's after quattro? Fiveto?

[rockinrob]

cinco!

[The High Heat]

Sixto Lezcano

[luke79]

i play guitar and i loves me some this land is your land.

[MattZ]

Sixto Lezcano

 

awesome.

 

(... and sevento)

[Central Scrutinizer]

[LouieB]

I think This Land is Your Land was written to counter the song God Bless America.

This seems to be a correct story. Irving Berlin wrote God Bless America. There was a great article in the NY Times a few years back about the dicotomy of popular music based on these songs.

 

I guess I forget that many of the guitar players on this board aren't of the hootenanny generation....

 

LouieB

[Guest Runaway Jim]

I have also never played This Land Is Your Land on the guitar.

[Central Scrutinizer]

I have also never played This Land Is Your Land on the guitar.

I've played it on djembe. Oddly enough, it also sounds just like "Indian Love Call."

[Synthesizer Patel]

mermaid avenue was made from woody guthrie manuscripts. He never recorded the songs and no one remembered how they went, so wilco and billy bragg made music to fit them.

 

Obviously, this land is your land is well known and was recorded. The whole point of the record was to save lost songs.

 

This is true, but Hoodoo Voodoo is pretty much the same song as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 from this album here

(you can check out a little clip of it - basically it's the same song, about as basically as Woody Guthrie singing the same lyrics to his songs gets, anyway)