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1. What interests you about Woody Guthrie?What interests me about Woody Guthrie is his raw creative energy. He was handed a rough life, and he made a lot of mistakes that only he could take responsibility for, and yet he channeled his experiences into a type of living folk art. And in almost every song lyric Woody's focus is on the other person. He rarely if ever wrote woeful songs about "poor Woody."
2. How is Guthrie’s life and music relevant today?Woody seems to have had a childlike acceptance of everyone he met (except for bankers and fascists). That's something we can take a cue from in our derisive times. Also, the economic problems we're emerging from certainly hark back to the Depression of the 1930s, when Woody sang "The rich man took my home and drove me from my door..."
3. What is your favorite Woody Guthrie song? I like "Deportee." It's a later song with a more serious tone, and it deals with the issue of immigration that still weighs so heavily on our minds. Woody's lyrics reach out and touch the conscience.
4. Why do you think libraries are an important part of the community?
A library is the original internet, with the added plus of real live people.
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last edited 5/15/12