Woody Guthrie
Guthrie's original, less-sanitized version of the American anthem sets sweeping continental imagery against a pointed challenge…
collective ownership American landscape economic inequality
Arlo Guthrie
A folk travelogue narrated by a train as it runs from Chicago to New Orleans, cataloguing the ordinary Americans aboard and the…
decline of American rail travel working-class life nostalgia
Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings take Woody Guthrie's populist anthem and rebuild it as a soul-funk testimony, restoring the…
inequality and exclusion reclaiming a national myth land and belonging
Randy Newman
A jaunty, unguarded pledge of loyalty written for the Toy Story soundtrack, sung in the voice of a companion (originally Woody,…
loyalty friendship as identity reassurance in the face of fear
