That streak of favoured musicians on Tracks continues with the latest single released from the Woody Guthrie home recordings set “Woody At Home“, which features twenty-two previously unreleased tracks from 1951-1952 home tapes, including 13 songs never recorded elsewhere and rare “This Land is Your Land” verses. Raw, intimate recordings made at his Brooklyn apartment before Huntington’s disease silenced the folk legend forever.
On today’s song, we find Woody picking at a song that must have dated back a few years since it talks about smashing Hitler, a feat that had been achieved some years earlier. As well as being an interesting historical item, it is a song that can’t help but prompt the thought, “What would Woody be saying today?” In a world where the bully boys and the greedy seem to be getting a firm hand on things, it’s pretty likely he’d have some harsh comments to cast.
