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Do Re Mi Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Calling Card
Woody Guthrie is often painted as a pure, authentic source of the American folk tradition, the natural transmitter for the stories of struggling Okies during the Dust Bowl disaster. But before he...
Songwriting
"And there on the Texas plains right in the dead center of the dust bowl, with the oil boom over and the wheat blowed out and the hard-working people just stumbling about, bothered with mortgages,...