Dwyer, Mike (13 September 2017). "Tom Morello: Making America rage again". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023 . Retrieved 23 February 2023. 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.

Pittsburgh-based Punk band Anti-Flag's 2001 album Underground Network includes a song entitled "This Machine Kills Fascists" [14] That’s not to say that workers don’t deserve better rights, and that the robber barons of yore don’t have comparative counterparts to today’s business and tech oligarchs controlling obscene amounts of wealth and power. But some of the verbiage and inflammatory attitude found in these songs comes across as a bit archaic, especially some of the sloganeering around unionization for anyone who’s watched a Martin Scorsese film, or episodes of The Sopranos that illustrate how some unions don’t stop the exploitation of workers, they just place it in the hands of a different set of sleazeballs. Guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine was inspired by Guthrie to put a slogan on every guitar he owns like "Arm The Homeless," "Soul Power," "Sendero Luminoso," and many more. [8] [9] [10] This is a special ACOUSTIC ALBUM we wrote around previously unpublished lyrics by one of our idols, WOODY GUTHRIE !! That’s right – there’s not a guitar amplifier on this album!! PLUS we’re doing our FIRST EVER ACOUSTIC THEATER TOUR to bring these new songs – plus all yourDKMfaves – straight to you in your hometown. Slogan coined by Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie in March 1943 with his guitar labeled "This machine kills fascists"Boy Ian, those are such grossly incorrect and wild-eyed assumptions you have made about me, they’re not even worth dignifying with the laundry list of hard labor jobs I have done in my life, and for extended periods. You don’t know me, and you couldn’t illustrate that any better than with your comment.

Emiko Tamagawa produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Catherine Welch. Jeannette Muhammad adapted it for the web.But Kyle redeemed himself by following it up with “That’s not to say that workers don’t deserve better rights, and that the robber barons of yore don’t have comparative counterparts to today’s business and tech oligarchs controlling obscene amounts of wealth and power.” By using Guthrie's guitar phrase for their album title, [Ken] Casey said in an WBUR interview the band wanted to show that Guthrie's music remains relevant today. What confuses Casey, though, is how the word fascism still triggers some people. [3] This Machine Still Kills Fascists’ is not just a beautiful collaboration between kindred spirits, it is also a solid album that shows the Murphys exploring their acoustic side, which is something they have only done sporadically up until now. And they must have liked it, because they recorded not one, but two albums, with Vol. 2 scheduled for release in 2023. 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: Guthrie was notably anti-fascist, anti-violence and anti-war. By using Guthrie’s guitar phrase for their album title, Casey says the band wanted to show that Guthrie's music remains relevant today. What confuses Casey, though, is how the word fascism still triggers some people.

DKM’s rowdy sound (which it maintains, even in acoustic form) and Guthrie’s words make for an ideal pairing. The band’s longstanding commitment to workers’ rights (they were the recent recipients of a lifetime achievement award from the AFL-CIO) and fighting racism and modern-day Nazism affords them the ability to utilize Guthrie’s words and legacy without seeming kitschy or like an attempt to pump up their own credibility. The words fascist, communist, anti-semite, racist, etc., are way over used in an attempt to *cancel* out, or evade a discussion… and guess who prompts that behavior? Projectionist, that’s who. Musician's Friend. "A Tour of Tom Morello's Guitars & Home Studio". YouTube. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023 . Retrieved 23 February 2023. Robert Weir, ed. (2007). Class in America [Three Volumes]: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.337. Not who you’re replying to, but I thought that line was a little off because those issues are mostly related to salaried workers, who are in pretty good shape right now all things considered. It’s the wage earners who are really getting royally screwed. For them, the aggressions ain’t micro and most of them don’t have the luxury of working from home.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. 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.

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?In this, Guthrie cast those opposing fascism not as mere outlaws in a fascist state, but as heroes rising "in times of economic turmoil and social disintegration" to fight "a highly illegitimate criminal endeavor intended to exploit the common people." [3] Guthrie portrayed these characters as something larger than merely "dumb gangsters," while his lyricism also "externalized the inhuman element of fascism by describing its representatives as animals that were usually held in very low esteem and were associated with a range of bad character traits." [3] For example, he talked about the "Nazi Snake" that has to be countered in his song "Talking Hitler's Head Off Blues". [3] Guthrie would declare "[a]nything human is anti Hitler" and in his song "You Better Get Ready" he has the figure of Satan declare that "Old Hell just ain't the same/Compared to Hitler, hell, I'm tame!" [3] Guthrie saw the battle against fascism as the ultimate battle of good versus evil. In a letter to "Railroad Pete" he stated "fascism and freedom are the only two sides battling... [this was the war] the world has been waiting on for twenty five million years... [which would] settle the score once and for all." [3] Legacy [ edit ] Colin Huggins's grand piano 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] I listened briefly to the two videos, I’m not impressed. I’m not into inauthentic… Woody Guthrie was authentic. However, I really liked Springsteen’s live version of This Land- was the performance authentic? I think it was. Hey everybody – after months of keeping things under wraps, we are PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OUR NEW ALBUM…coming SEPTEMBER 30…. THIS MACHINE STILL KILLS FASCISTS !!! Littlefield, Richard (6 December 2021). "Rep. Richard Littlefield: Teachers should set aside personal feelings and just teach". The Laconia Daily Sun. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021 . Retrieved 1 August 2022.