Bay Area concerts in tune with Hanukkah feature such acts as The Klezmatics and Nefesh Mountain, and events like "A Very Jewish Christmas Spectacular."
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American Intimacy: On Gustavus Stadler’s “Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life”
Gustavus Stadler
WE DON’T KNOW how Woody Guthrie might have sung one of his most tender (and because of this, seemingly out of character) songs. It came down to us as so much of Guthrie’s work only as words scratched into one of his many notebooks. The recording we have is Jeff Tweedy a songwriter of a different time, though one equipped with a similarly wiry timbre on
Mermaid Avenue, a collaborative album by Tweedy’s band Wilco and British folk mainstay Billy Bragg, which set to music a portion of the voluminous lyrics and poems Guthrie left behind when he died of complications from Huntington’s disease in 1967.