This machine kills fascists" is a message that American musician Woody Guthrie placed on his guitar in the mid 1940s, starting in 1943. [1] Conception [ edit ] Robert Weir, ed. (2007). Class in America [Three Volumes]: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.337. Song I Can’t Wait to Hear Live: “Dig A Hole” – Shouting along with a band engaged in finding places to bury Nazis sounds like a fine way to spend an evening. The recording sessions for This Machine Still Kills Fascists yielded more than one album’s worth of material, and now the Boston punk mainstays have released a second batch of Guthrie-penned tunes, Okemah Rising. This record shows that sometimes there’s no such thing as too much of a good thing: Okemah Rising is a helluva good listen and just as effective as its predecessor. The idea for this album has been something mulled by the band for quite some time, with Woody's daughter Nora curating a collection of her father's never-published lyrics for the band over the years. With Al Barr taking a leave of absence to tend to his ailing mother, the group did not want to press forward with a normal band album and felt the timing was right to dig into the the Guthrie project.

Pereira, Sydney (September 13, 2019). "Local Legend: Colin 'The Piano Guy' Plays Washington Square Park". Patch. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021 . Retrieved November 7, 2021.Dreams are just how we would like things to be, with life, love and happiness and the dreams are free- but lies cost us dear, with broken hearts and tears, so which one do you think hurts the most?- Promises they’ve made, or the lies we’ve been told? Talking Jukebox” is the second song. Now, Ian and I have differing opinions as to the meaning of the song: on its face, the song is about the experiences of the frequent bar patron, something that so many in the working class were in Guthrie’s time. It talks about knowing everything about the patrons, knowing their stories, their desires and their secrets. The evocative lines express: Pittsburgh-based Punk band Anti-Flag's 2001 album Underground Network includes a song entitled "This Machine Kills Fascists" [14] It is the age-old adage of ‘the rich are getting richer, while the poor are getting poorer’. The musical stylings are pure country, but almost take on zydeco rhythm and stylings. Musically, it will have you bopping your head and tapping along. Newsdesk. "Tom Morello regretted Rage Against the Machine's naked Lollapalooza protest 'when the police arrived' ". Music-News. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023 . Retrieved 23 February 2023.

Rea, Steven (2015-07-26). " 'Paper Towns': Romantic teens trying to catch on". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16 . Retrieved 1 August 2022. a b c d e f g h John S. Partington (2011). The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. Brown, Jennifer M. (2008-09-12). "Shelf Awareness for Friday, September 12, 2008". Shelf Awareness. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16 . Retrieved 1 August 2022. The band's James Lynch added, “Nora gave us the privilege of going through the archives and selecting some lyrics to use. The common thread that I see through everything was this love for people and this understanding of the universal truth that there is no one person fundamentally better than another person.”

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New York City street performer Colin Huggins inscribed the message on his Steinway grand piano. [11] In Guthrie's opposition to fascism, he conceptualized the ideology "as a form of economic exploitation similar to slavery," straightforwardly denouncing the fascists – particularly their leaders ( dictators) – as a group of gangsters who set out to "rob the world." [3] This recalled a protest strategy he had used "during the Great Depression, when social, political, and economic inequality had been engendered by a small rich elite." [3] During that era, Guthrie had "romanticized the deeds of outlaws such as Jesse James, Pretty Boy Floyd, Calamity Jane or the Dalton Gang both as legitimate acts of social responsibility and as 'the ultimate expression of protest,' thus transforming the outlaw into an archetypal partisan in a fight against those who were held responsible for the worsening social and economic conditions." [3] Leitch, Donovan (2007). The Autobiography of Donovan: The Hurdy Gurdy Man. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. p.69. ISBN 9780312364342. Archived from the original on 2023-03-05 . Retrieved 2022-07-14. I just feel like it makes what we're doing all that more important because you can't cower from it,” he says. “You got to speak up against it and you got to be ready to be there and tell it like it is.”

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Casey says he knows the band will lose fans because of their stance on fascism. The group’s core fan base is mainly working-class white people, he adds. The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 10 October 2022". The ARIA Report. No.1701. Australian Recording Industry Association. October 10, 2022. p.10. How can you take a working-class person and turn them into someone who would argue on behalf of the ultra-rich, over standing shoulder to shoulder with their fellow worker? But that’s what the people in power and wealth always wanted to do: Divide. Their biggest fear is the voice of the people and the voice of the worker united,” Casey says. “Those people in power, the elite and the wealthy, are really just laughing at us. And no one in my opinion sums that up more than Donald Trump. Pretending that he would actually spend a second of his life with the average Make America Great Again supporter that comes to his rally? Not a chance. If he didn’t look at that person as someone he could scam five dollars out of, or a vote, he would literally taser that guy.”