Hard Travelin' - Woody Guthrie

[nathanoman1]

RIP

[CarolyntheGreat]

Oh woody it's such a shame about Arlo. 

[lkuwaeoirNWEOUIAWNER]

@CarolyntheGreat what do you mean?

[Django5198]

This comment kills fascists

[allenshepard]

Yes Bob Dylan was influenced by guthrie but he then slapped everyone in the face that helped him out in the village

[ApollosPythia]

I love this song!!!

[08shortstop]

No one captured real America in song better than Woody ... not even close.

[dmien746]

bob dylan was inspired by woody big time and learned a lot from him

[bluegrass570]

I THOUGHT YOU KNOWED!!! 

[TheSmerik]

I guess this may be strange, but I had never heard of Woody Guthrie until I read the book Zen and the Art of Faking It.

[billieshawn]

Flatt and Scruggs did this and some other Woody Guthry songs. Were they crypto leftists, or just good musicians.

[billieshawn]

Song about hard work. I've been there. Foundry, kitchen, auto parts, rail road, hospital. If you haven't got a union you are a slave. Organize. This country is overdue for a new Woody Guthry. When will he/she wake us up?

[inkblackRose]

this machine kills fascists!



[randallends]

i thought you knowed?

[btancisback]

@randallends "Knowed" Is a word musicians (Mainly Folk singers) use to make it easier to rhyme than "Knew" or "Know". And in a lot of southern and Midwestern places, Knowed is actually a word used by most people to mean Knew. 

[kenmackie]

@btancisback you think?

[paulhallart]

@randallends yeah. Texas - Oklahoma speak. and coincidentally, knowed is handy here 'cause it rhymes with road.

[RattleheadIV]

How many people here have been in a folk music mood since Wisconsin?

[ronelvis]

@RattleheadIV You know it brother. Time to organize.

[SuperTrancend]

any hard core bob dylan fans out there?, this picture is exactly what dylan means when he says hes 100% woodie guthrie

[auckland37]

@tasedlak Thats the point though isn't it.Many have no problem with communism as a political theory.Its just in practice that it never works - because of the nature of man especially if they turn their back on God. Actually Orwell became disenchanted with communism via his part in the Spanish civil war when he fought on the side of the communists. I believe Animal farm came out of that experience. He saw the ciommunists were just as cruel as the fascists.

[tasedlak]

@auckland

No, the point is that the people you mention never tried communism. Rather, they instigated fascism and called it "communism" as a guise.

Regarding Orwell, he stated that his time in Spain made him more of a socialist than he was previously. He fought with socialists and anarchists who the "communists" of the USSR tried to destroy. Spain motivated Orwell to expose and strongly condemn what he saw as the Stalinist corruption of the original socialist ideals.

[gcahn2]

@auckland37 We say communism failed everywhere, but it failed with the help of the entire world trying to kill it. How many billions of dollars has the U.S. spent trying to smash the evil commies. It was a human experiment that we should've let play itself out or succeed. We could've influenced it or mittigated it with our trade or lack there of. The U.S.A. is a social experiment; how successful would we be if the world tried to stomp us out of existence at our inception.

[lozington95]

@auckland37 Basically, Capitalism is evil. Your conception of marxism is Stalinism/Mauism which is a corruption of marxism. In truth it is State Capitalism: all the evil of capitalism, just orchestrated by the state rather than big business

[MacGirvan]

He hated fascists thats for damn sure!

[TheTxBandit]

i've done some hard travelin' myself.... all over the u.s., mexico, & canada... :-)

[TheTxBandit]

i've done some hard travelin' myself... :-)

[tasedlak]

@TheTxBandit In the words of Bob Dylan:

"The very last thing that I'd want to do

Is to say I've been hitting some hard traveling too."

[crwheel3]

@TheTxBandit : I hear ya Tx, done a bit of hard travelin' my way as well. Lot of wet nights and colder mornings. Bless us all that wander far and travel wide. Peace.

[barrybrien82]

@TheTxBandit

Cool story bro,

[mobilechief]

@TheTxBandit Who the hell hasn't, best to ya!

[sghirate]

What does "flat wheeler" mean? (0:43)

[tasedlak]

@sghirate

Flat wheeler is the term used for a railroad car that has a flat spot on its wheel, which causes it to hop and shake the car with every turn. Very unpleasant for those hopping trains. For more on Guthrie's train hopping ways, read Bound for Glory. Bob Dylan said it left even more of an impression on him than Keroauc's On The Road.

[RancidAppleProducts]

@tasedlak Thanks, I was also wondering. :)

[fanniterrette]

@tasedlak I can see why. Guthrie has his own prose style, one that beautifully reflects his spoken voice and the various characters he runs across in his travels. I know there are many fans, or at least I assume there are, of On the Road, but I found the book to be hard-going. In my opinion, while Keroauc's got the literary rep, Guthrie's got the talent.

[justfukoff88]

@fanniterrette I liked both. And say that both of them are easily two of my favorite books. Kerouac was a drunk, and suffered from depression.

[Tsionmo1]

thats cause Keroauc was a fruit even Willie B. thought so.

[paulhallart]

@sghirate in the freight yard if the rolling stock sits idol too long the sheer weight of the car causes the steel wheel to go slightly out of round and when the car is put in service there's this incessant jolting as that wheel reaches the slightly flattened section of it's wheel. It's often too prohibitive for a railroad to perform that kind of maintenance. It's a phenomenon of metallurgy. Usually minor flat wheeler situations are let go on presumption that there aren't passengers...

[MattisSoderstorm]

@sghirate

You couldn't Google it really?

[RoadWarriors360]

I enjoy Woody Guthrie & old American folk songs. I used to walk, hitchhike, hop trains back in the '70s. Today, I Iive on the road full time. I love songs about the rail, the road & travel. If you like this song, road trips and travel, too, come be a 'Road Warrior' with us. Members worldwide. "RoadWarriors360", copy, paste this in Google. Find us on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube. "Like" our Facebook page to be a 'Road Warrior' for free. Read my upcoming book about the road. Thanks, JR

[RancidAppleProducts]

@RoadWarriors360 That's so cool! I'll definitely check it out, I really want to hit the road and travel once I'm old enough.

[carsanookdotcom]

thx for da klip tasedlak

You make made afternoon

Dr John

Bangkok

[sublimeruca27]

rest in pce woody i love u man

[802AJF]

we need more of this

[JoelGallob]

Thank you to whoeversaved this tape adn put it up on Youtube. Woody was America at its best.

[vauxhall908]

good tune

[lucariomaster117]

I heard of woody guthrie from a book called "Zen and the art of faking it"

[Daveparts]

Woody sang for the people and not for record companies. The real deal, "I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you've not any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. " Woody Guthrie

[slavthetraveller]

r.i.p. woody and peace to all who belong to the road

[MrAwibble]

Read his autobiography (Bound For Glory) And this song tells his story better than any of his others. The book is very sad but ultimately uplifting.

[IAmTheWoodenDoors]

Revleftkid, whoever you are, your comment rocks.

[cactusmagnet]

the shit

[madhattery341]

folk music can't really get any simpler, or better, than this.

[paulhallart]

@madhattery341 Woody helped Bob (Zimmerman) Dylan get started...

[kenmackie]

@paulhallart you know this for a fact?

[paulhallart]

@paulhallart yes. to start off before he went2see Woody, he had already learned about 50 of Woody's songs. That's how I got started too. only I was able2avoid fame. the secret, ken, is not in the music so much as in the hard travlin' ...

[walsham]

Genius!

[GunsSlashRock]

really i like

verry good

[bbqplatypus]

i would say no one makes music like this anymore, but hardly anyone did then either.

genius and great man.

[auckland37]

Iconic.

[manorrd]

Thanks for posting

[uniquelygeneric]

Thanks

[MegaCaveboy]

Great song; great man.