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Thinkin’ about Woody

Photo: Robin Carson / Woody Guthrie Archives No one disputes that Woody Guthrie is the most significant Anglo-American folksinger, period. He merged the British ballad musical and storytelling tradition with African-American blues; added the incisive and humorous sociopolitical commentary of Will Rogers; and became the emblematic folk-music spokesperson for the downtrodden, beat-up, misused and abused […]

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Radio daze

The hype has yet to become a eulogy for any medium. The latest chapter in the saga pits traditional terrestrial radio against online radio, and metro broadcasters have cast their bets on both sides. Listener-supported KOKF-FM 90.9 — aka 91 FM — lived on the knob from 1985 to 2006, when national brand Air1 Radio […]

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