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From: Michael Bertrand <bertrand@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
List Editor: Michael Bertrand <bertrand@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Re: Woody Guthrie
Author's Subject: Re: Woody Guthrie
Date Written: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:00:12 -0000
Date Posted: Fri, 23 Mar 2006 20:00:12 -0500

[Diane Pecknold wrote:

> One has only to look at a couple of Nudie suits to
>know that part of country's appeal was its embrace
>(ambivalent though it sometimes was) of materialism
>as a road to respectability and even personal
>fulfillment. I think Woody Guthrie consciously
> disassociated himself with that aesthetic.]


Very nicely put, Diane.  It's hard to imagine Woody
in a Nudie suit!

Bob Taylor

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