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| | Amazon.co.uk: Dustbowl Ballads: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | It's no secret that Dylan owes a lot in the beginning of his career before he found his own real style; anyway, takes more than a blue workman's shirt and cap and cigarette to be a Woody Guthrie impersonator. |
 | | The scale of the DUSTBOWL BALLADS is breathtaking, and Guthrie takes a wide sweep over a broad canvas of social issues and mostly social wrongs of the 1930s. |
 | | As with John Dos Passos' fantastic novel sequence 'USA' that deals with the 1900-20s, and of course THAT Steinbeck novel, here we have all the problems of America: division, poverty, dispossession, under-class, climatic adversity, failing crops, famine, vigilantes, being on the wrong side of the law for no right reason, unlistening and uncaring politicians. |
| www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000024ZK7 (1274 words) |
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