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On This Day in 1944, Woody Guthrie Recorded One of the Most Potent Protest Songs of All Time

Woody Guthrie recorded the enduring protest anthem "This Land Is Your Land" on April 16, 1944, in New York City. The post On This Day in 1944, Woody Guthrie Recorded One of the Mos...

Bette Midler Is Bringing Back the Protest Song

The triple-threat legend talks about revamping a Woody Guthrie classic into an anti-Trump anthem and why older generations are responsible for calling out fascism

Happy Birthday, Pete! (Pt.2)Episode #26-14 airing 04-08-26

This week we conclude our birthday celebration for Pete Seeger with a survey of more recent interpretations of some of Pete’s best songs and some newer recordings by Pete. We’ll he...

On This Day in 2013, We Said Goodbye to the Folk Singer Forever Immortalized in Woodstock History (Thanks to a Traffic J...

Richie Havens, the folk-blues singer who achieved icon status after opening Woodstock, died 13 years ago today at age 72. The post

Grammy-Winning Klezmer Legends The Klezmatics and Sofia Rei Reimagine Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee” for Right Now

The Klezmatics didn’t approach “Deportee” as a cover. They approached it as a responsibility. The Grammy-winning Yiddish band shares their stunning reimagining of Woody Guthrie’s “...

Lost Guthrie/Dylan duet tape found and restored by Tweedy

Extraordinary news today that a lost Woady Guthrie and Rab Dylan duet has been discovered lurking in the archives of the Jonesonian Institute and has been given to renowned musicia...

Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”

Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year anniversary event featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and you know, others of our ilk, you...

Bruce Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams No Longer Welcomes All

The first time I heard Bruce Springsteen play “Land of Hope and Dreams” during his reunion tour of 1999, I nearly wept. Summoning the spirit of Woody Guthrie’s Bound for Glory and...

Tom Morello Blasts Trump, ICE Abuses at NYC Event: ‘It’s Fucking Fascism’

The musician and activist joined Hands Off NYC  at 26 Federal Plaza and performed Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land"

Dar Williams at The Freight

Dar Williams The Freight Berkeley, CA April 9, 2026 Dar Williams  has been creating powerful, popular, poignant, and sometimes humorous tunes and performing, acoustic guitar in han...

Classic Clips: Kris Kristofferson “Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down” – Live at The Nobel Peace Center 3rd March, 2008

New York City, 16 October, 1992: It was an auspicious evening in a grand setting: “The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration” of Bob Dylan’s recording career at Madison Square Garde...

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Railroad Songs

At the remove of two hundred years, it is very hard, if not impossible, to fully comprehend the impact that the expansion of railroads throughout the world had in the 19th and earl...

For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

The Woodstock festival held in 1969 at Yasgur’s farm, Bethel, New York, is one of those truly emblematic moments in the history of contemporary music, and indeed in the birth of am...

Classic Clips: Billy Bragg, Hank Wangford and Brendan Croker “Sin City” – Live on the Whistle Test, Rock Around the Cloc...

The Old Grey Whistle Test (which in its final years was abbreviated to the Whistle Test) was commissioned by David Attenborough and ran from 1971 to 1988. Broadcast annually on BBC...

Remember When Joan Baez Wrote a Song That Called Out Bob Dylan for Giving up on Protest Music in 1972?

The Top Ten Americana Song of All Time: 2nd – John Prine “Angel From Montgomery” (1971)

Almost there! There was never much doubt that John Prine would be represented in this list, and, although a number of his songs appeared in the original writers’ lists, the iconic...

Bruce Springsteen calls out White House at DC show, reveals protest festival in Maryland

Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard and Joan Baez will headline a star-studded protest festival set for the Washington, D.C., area a month before the mi...

On This Day in 1972, John Lennon Released a Controversial Song He’d Spend Years Defending

Former Beatle John Lennon released the lowest-charting single of his career on April 24, 1972—a song he would defend the rest of his life. The po...

Motihari Brigade – Fortunate Son

John Fogerty wrote "Fortunate Son" in about twenty minutes. He said so himself. Twenty minutes of white-hot fury — fury at draft dodgers with powerful fathers, fury at flags waved...

Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello faces backlash after singing at NYC ICE protest rally

Tom Morello sang Woody Guthrie at the Hands off NYC protest and called the Trump administration an "authoritarian clown show," sparking backlash.

3 Underrated Folk Songs You’ll Like if You Love “Blowin’ In The Wind”

Folk songs have the power to inspire change and new thought. Here are some songs that do that in the same way "Blowin' In The Wind" does. The post 3 Underrated Folk Songs You’ll Li...

Watch Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) rally against ICE in NYC ++ pics

Between stops on his current tour performing with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Morello called for people to ”take our power back and adjourn this motherfucking authorit...

Tom Morello Announces Power to the People Festival With Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, More

The one-day, D.C.-area event taking place in October “celebrates the spirit of activism, creativity, and hope,” Morello says

Merle Haggard Once Bought Himself out of His Record Deal Just to Release This Divisive 1990 Protest Song

"I've never been a guy that can do what people told me," Haggard said. The post Merle Haggard Once Bought Himself out of His Record Deal...