Huw Lemmey's 'Utopian Drivel'

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To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil

To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil

thinkin' Woody Guthrie

Huw Lemmey
Jun 03, 2020
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The music of Woody Guthrie is something that somebody introduces to you, or you to, enthusiastically. For me, it was my brother, who watched a documentary in the late ‘90s about the US folk singer, and the quest of his daughter, Nora, to reinfuse his lyrics with music, for the first time in 40 years. Guthrie had no formal musical training, and when he d…

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