The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday July 14th, 2023
Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Blues and Revolt by Rene Wadlow
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912 – 1967) whose birth anniversary we note on 14 July was an American folksinger who had a creative influence on at least three generations of folksingers, such as those of his own generation, Pete Seeger and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, the next generation Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and his son Arlo Guthrie and a more recent generation’s Bruce Springsteen.
Woody was born in Oklahoma and named after Woodrow Wilson, then the progressive governor of New Jersey and soon to be elected President. Woody’s father, a former cowboy become land speculator was active in local Democratic Party politics and also knew a wide range of songs which he passed on to his son. His mother had Huntington’s disease, a neurological disease which attacks both the body and the brain. She was institutionalized in a mental home where she died when Woody was still young. The disease seems to be hereditary as Woody as well as two of his children died of the same disease.
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Summer Nights #poem by Nikos Laios
“The night is summer
And the heat hangs
Low over the city,
Sheets soaked
In sweat cling to beds”
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Tang & Ram #67 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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