Dallas Escorts: Will Johnson of Centro-matic teams up to release Woody Guthrie tribute album
Johnson says they went through the treasured documents on their own to find which lyrics spoke to them. “I started looking for the pages of lyrics that kind of sang back to me, to hear the mood of the song through the lyrics. I wanted them to speak to me in that regard, like the song chose me.”
He says that so many people (musicians included) gravitate towards Guthrie’s music because it crossed so many boundaries at the time. “Guthrie was able to paint a picture regardless if it was a children’s song about waking up or if it was a really graphic, morose picture of venereal disease, prostitution, or heroin. He was one of the very first punk rockers – he rebelled in a way that people really responded to and became active in the result of. So many of those lyrics still apply to many of the issues and experiences we encounter in our lives these days.”
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