Monday Music: The Cost of Crackdown

Woody Guthrie’s Classic Poem/Song About the Deaths of Migrants Still Speaks to Us

UPDATE (see below)

Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics to this song in 1948 after a plane crash in California. He didn’t record it himself (it wasn’t put to music until a decade later), but it has taken on its own life with Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and others recording their own versions.

Pete Seeger popularized the song.

This duet — Bob Dylan and Joan Baez — is among the more affecting.

The lyrics can be found here.

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I found out after posting this that one of the great drummers of the rock era, Clem Burke, has died.