In addition to 123 photographs and 195 songs, this edition features an introductory note by Nora Guthrie, the daughter of Woody Guthrie and overseer of the Woody Guthrie Foundation. Introduction, Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People) 2. Future songwriters can learn from the honesty, the courage, the simplicity, and the frankness of these hard-hitting songs. I found this song in Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, compiled by Alan Lomax, with notes on the songs by Woody Guthrie, music transcription by Pete Seeger (Oak Publications, 1967, page 97). and a little bit more like a trip instead of a trap (Woody Guthrie. Music is one of the things that will save us. Now, at the turn of the century, the millennium, what's the future of these songs? he asks.
But more important, he tells us what's right and why it still matters, noting songs that have become famous the world over: Union Maid, Which Side Are You On?, Worried Man Blues, Midnight Special, and Tom Joad. She grew up to be the herb doctor, mid wife, and best ballad singer in the whole country. Some Cherokee and English blood in her veins. With characteristic modesty, he tells us what's missing and what's wrong with the collection. Woody Guthrie’s introduction to Aunt Molly Jackson in Section VII of the book Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People: Aunt Molly was born in the mountains around Harlan, Kentucky. In his afterword, Pete Seeger recounts the long history of collecting and publishing this anthology of Depression-era, union-hopeful, and New Deal melodies. Twenty-seven years in the making (1940-67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator who has introduced three generations of Americans to their musical heritage.
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