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'REVIEW: Ivas John, 'Good Days a Comin',' Right Side Up Records

If you didn't know any better, you might think, after hearing 'Good Days a Comin' (Right Side Up), that you're digging some itinerant flat- and finger-picking folk singer who rides the rails 1940s hobo-style like Woody Guthrie. Then you'd realize it's a Southern Illinois University graduate named Ivas John whose mastery of both Appalachian mountain music and Mississippi Delta blues coalesces within the soul of this one mighty fine singer-songwriter.
By Mike Greenblatt

  • 'Woody Guthrie Sang About Donald Trump's Father in Reworked Version of 'I Ain't Got No Home'

    Protest singers have come and gone but the relevance of Woody Guthrie still echoes to this day. As its been discovered, Mr. Guthrie's humble reach extends to the current Republican primaries for the candidacy--to none other than Mr. Donald Trump. While Guthrie may not have known Donald in his life he did know his father Fred Trump as his landlord in a little Brooklyn enclave called Beach Haven, which strictly did not lease to African-Americans and which he reworked into the song "I Ain't Got No Home."
    By Ian Holubiak

  • 'David Amram's 'This Land' (Newport Classic Recordings) is a Melting Pot of Cultures [REVIEW]

    'This Land' (Newport Classic Recordings), subtitled "Symphonic Variations On A Song By Woody Guthrie," is by the living legend known as David Amram, who, now 85 years-old, has conducted 75 of the world's greatest orchestras. A friend to Kerouac, Ginsburg, Dylan, Seeger and, yes, Guthrie...composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic since 1966...pioneer of the French Horn in jazz since the 1950s...a world music, folk, classical and jazz icon.
    By Mike Greenblatt
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