![]() To order Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads for £16 (RRP £20) go to or call 0330 333 6846. Hayes’s prose reaches for the lyrical and sometimes comes up short, but this is a passionate picture of Guthrie and his times. The Depression overhangs everything, turning dreams to despair and the High Plains to dust. Hayes shows the camaraderie of the freight-train riders and the energy of Guthrie’s early gigs, which eventually take him to LA and New York and on to the nation’s radios. The angular Guthrie moves through it all, soaking up music and stories, travelling with his once-prosperous, still-proud father, from Oklahoma to Texas, where he meets his first wife, Mary. ![]() With a delighted eye and an ear for a tune, Nick Hayess follow-up to his. Hayes sets his characters against waves of heat and sky, and shows creases on tired faces and scars on a land torn apart by the quest for riches. La 4e de couverture indique : Woody Guthrie and the dust bowl ballads is a. ![]() The artwork, whose sepia palette seems drawn from the plains themselves, excels at both lively crowd scenes and portraits of the landscape. ![]() ![]() It’s a wonderful achievement that beats with a love for Guthrie’s music and America’s natural beauty, and rages at inequality. H ayes’s biography of a folk icon follows Guthrie from his teenage years to 1940, when he wrote his signature song, “This Land is Your Land”. ![]()
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