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Wicked Messenger

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by Mike Marqusee


  Greenwood

  Greer, Will

  Gregory, Dick

  Grossman, Albert

  Guevara, Che

  Guildford Four

  “Guitar Town” (Earle)

  Gulf of Tonkin

  Gulf War

  Guthrie, Arlo

  Guthrie, Woody

  auditions of

  background of

  concert for

  death of

  Dust Bowl Ballads of

  Earle on

  influence of, on Dylan

  “Gypsy Woman” (Impressions)

  Hamer, Fannie Lou

  “Hammer Song” (Hays and Seeger)

  Hammond, John

  Dylan on

  “Hard Times in New York Town” (Dylan)

  “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (Dylan)

  Hardin, John Wesley

  Harding, Vincent

  Harrison, George

  Haskell, Eddie

  Hayden, Tom

  Hayes, Alfred

  Hays, Lee

  Hegel, G.W.F

  Helm, Levon

  Hendrix, Jimi

  at Woodstock

  Hentoff, Neil

  “Here’s to the State of Mississippi” (Ochs)

  Heston, Charlton

  Heylin, Clinton

  “High Water” (Dylan)

  “High Water Everywhere” (Patton)

  Highlander Folk Center

  Highway

  Highway 61 Revisited (Dylan)

  sales of

  “Highway 61 Revisited” (Dylan)

  Hill, Joe

  Hillman, Chris

  hip-hop

  Hiss, Alger

  Hitler-Stalin Pact

  “Hiway Poesy: L.A.-Albuquerque-Texas-Wichita” (Ginsberg)

  Hoffman, Abbie

  at Woodstock

  Hog Farmers

  “Hollis Brown” (Dylan)

  Holly, Buddy

  homosexuality

  Hooker, John Lee

  Hootenanny

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Horovitz, Michael

  House Un-American Activities Committee

  Howlin’ Wolf

  Hudson, Garth

  Hughes, Langston

  Human Be-in

  Humphrey, Hubert

  “Hurricane” (Dylan)

  Hurt, Mississippi John

  Hyde Park

  “I Ain’t Got No Home” (Guthrie)

  “I Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore” (Ochs)

  “I Am a Lonesome Hobo” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “I Been Buked and I Been Scorned” (Jackson)

  “I Don’t Believe You” (Dylan)

  “I Dreamed I saw St. Augustine” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “I Saw the Light” (Williams)

  “I Shall Be Released” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “I Walk the Line” (Cash)

  “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” (Beatles)

  “I Want You” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground,”

  “If There’s a Hell Below We’re All Gonna Go” (Mayfield)

  “If You Gotta Go” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “I- Feel - Like - I’m - Fixin’ -To - Die Rag” (Country Joe)

  “I’ll Keep It with Mine” (Dylan)

  “I’ll Overcome Some Day” (Tindley)

  “I’m Going to Say it Now” (Ochs)

  “I’m Movin’ On” (Charles)

  “I’m On My Way” (Odetta)

  “I’m Too Old to Be a Scab,”

  the Impressions

  “In the Sweet Bye and Bye,”

  Incredible String Band

  International Poetry Incarnation

  Invisible Republic (Marcus)

  Iraq

  Isle of Wight festival

  “It Ain’t Me, Babe” (Dylan)

  “It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” (Dylan)

  “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  Ives, Burl

  Jackson (Mississippi)

  Jackson, Mahalia

  Jagger, Mick

  “Jailhouse Rock” (Presley)

  James, Clive

  jazz

  New Orleans

  Jefferson, Blind Lemon

  Jerusalem (Earle)

  “Jerusalem” (Earle)

  lyrics of

  “Jesse James” (Guthrie)

  Jim Crow laws

  “Joe Hill” (Hayes and Robinson)

  “John Brown” (Dylan)

  “John Brown’s Body,”

  John, Little Willie

  “John Walker’s Blues” (Earle)

  lyrics of

  John Wesley Harding (Dylan)

  sales of

  songs on

  “John Wesley Harding” (Dylan)

  Johnson, Blind Willie

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Robert

  Johnston, Bob

  jokers

  Jones, Brian

  Jones, Mickey

  “Julius and Ethel” (Dylan)

  “Jumbalaya” (Williams)

  “Just Like a Woman” (Dylan)

  “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  Kazee, Buell

  “Keep on Keepin’ On” (Mayfield)

  “Keep on Pushing” (Impressions)

  “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize,”

  “Keep Your Hands on the Plow, Hold On,”

  Kennedy, John F.

  assassination

  Kennedy, Robert F.

  Kerry, John

  Springsteen and

  Kesey, Ken

  Khan, Asif Ali

  “Kick out the Jams” (MC5)

  Kierkegaard, Soren

  Kilmer, Val

  “Kindhearted Woman” (Johnson)

  “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” (the Band)

  King, Martin Luther

  King of the Delta Blues Singers

  Kingston Trio

  the Kinks

  Kiss of Death

  Kissinger, Henry

  Kooper, Al

  Kopkind, Andrew

  on Woodstock

  Kovic, Ron

  “Kral Majales” (Ginsberg)

  Krassner, Paul

  La Farge, Peter

  Labour Party

  Lamont, Corliss

  Lampell, Millard

  Lancaster, Burt

  “Land of Hope and Dreams” (Dylan)

  Landau, Jon

  Langhorne, Bruce

  Lanois, Daniel

  “Lay Down Your Weary Tune” (Dylan)

  “Lay Lady Lay” (Dylan)

  Leadbelly

  League for Industrial Democracy (LID)

  Leave It to Beaver

  “Leave My Kitten Alone” (John)

  Ledbetter, Huddie. See Leadbelly

  the Left

  counterculture and

  drug use of

  moralism of

  redefining

  in thirties

  on Woodstock

  Leninism

  Lennon, John

  “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  Lester, Julius

  on SNCC

  “Let Me Die in My Footsteps” (Dylan)

  “Let’s Roll” (Young)

  Lewis, Jerry Lee

  Lewis, John

  Lewis, Meade Lux

  Lifestyles

  “Light My Fire” (Doors)

  Lightnin’ Hopkins

  “Like a Rolling Stone” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  Springsteen on

  “Links on the Chain” (Ochs)

  Liston, Sonny

  Little Red Book

  Liuzza, Viola

  Live Aid

  Dyla
n at

  Lloyd, Bert

  Logue, Christopher

  Lomax, Alan

  folk and

  Lomax, John

  London

  Lonely Crowd (Riesman)

  “Lonely Voice of Youth” (Cash)

  “Lonesome Day” (Springsteen)

  “Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “Lord Franklin,”

  “Lord Randal” (Child)

  Lorre, Peter

  Los Angeles Free Press

  “Lost Highway” (Williams)

  Lott, Eric

  “Love and Theft” (Dylan)

  “Love Me, I’m A Liberal” (Ochs)

  “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (Dylan) lyrics of

  Love songs

  Lowell, Robert

  Lucie-Smith, Edward

  “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (Beatles)

  Lunsford, Bascom Lamar

  Lynd, Staughton

  Lyrics of Lowly Life (Dunbar)

  “Ma Boheme” (Rimbaud)

  MacColl, Ewan

  MacLeish, Archibald

  “Maggie’s Farm” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  Malcolm X

  “Mama, You Been on My Mind” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “Man in Black” (Cash)

  Manchester Free Trade Hall

  Manfred Mann

  “Mansion on the Hill” (Williams)

  Manuel, Richard

  March on Washington

  impact of

  Marcus, Greil

  on Basement Tapes

  Martha and the Vandellas

  Martin, Phyllis

  Marxism

  “Mary Hamilton,”

  Masked and Anonymous

  The Masses

  “Masters of War” (Dylan)

  Mayfield, Curtis

  MC5

  McCarthy, Eugene

  McCarthyism

  Communism and

  McCartney, Paul

  McClure, Michael

  McGuinn, Roger

  McGuire, Barry

  McKenzie, Scott

  media saturation

  “Memphis Blues Again”

  lyrics of

  Meredith, James

  Mezzrow, Mezz

  “Mighty, Mighty, Spade and Whitey” (Impressions)

  lyrics of

  Mighty Quinn

  “Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)”

  Miller, Mitch

  “Miner’s Lifeguard,”

  Minstrel shows

  “Miss Black America” (Mayfield)

  Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

  “Mississippi Goddam” (Simone)

  Mississippi Summer Project

  Mitchell, Adrian

  Mitchell, Joni

  Monterey Pop Festival

  Moore, Davey

  moralism, of Left

  Moriarty, Dean

  Moses, Bob

  “Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way and I’l Go Mine”

  lyrics of

  Mothers of Invention

  Motown

  “Move On Up” (Mayfield)

  Movement City

  “Mr. Tambourine Man” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  Muddy Waters

  Murray, Charles Shaar

  Music from Big Pink (the Band)

  Muste, A.J.

  “My Back Pages” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “My Boy Sue” (Cash)

  “My Uncle” (Flying Burrito Brothers)

  mysticism

  NAACP

  Nashville

  Nashville Sit-In

  Nashville Skyline (Dylan)

  songs on

  N’Dour, Youssou

  “Neighborhood Bully” (Dylan)

  Nelson, Willie

  Neuwirth, Bob

  Never Ending Tour

  New Christy Minstrels

  New Left

  New Left Notes

  New Lost City Ramblers

  New Masses

  New Orleans

  New York

  folk scene in

  New York Times

  Newman, Paul

  Newport Folk Festival

  Newsreel

  Newsweek

  Newton, Huey

  Nicks, Stevie

  “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” (Emmett)

  Nixon, Richard

  “No More Auction Block,”

  “North Country Blues” (Dylan)

  “Norwegian Wood” (Lennon)

  “Not Dark Yet” (Dylan)

  “Nothing was Delivered” (Dylan)

  “Nottamun Town,”

  “Obviously Five Believers” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  Ochs, Phil

  in Chicago

  “Ode to Billie” (Gentry)

  Odetta

  Official Bootleg

  Oglesby, Carl

  “Oh Freedom” (Baez)

  “Ohio” (Young)

  Old Testament

  Olympia Theatre

  On the Road (Kerouac)

  “On the Road Again” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  “One Too Many Mornings” (Dylan)

  “Only a Pawn in Their Game” (Dylan)

  Ono, Yoko

  Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Our Singing Country (Lomax)

  “Outlaw Blues”

  lyrics of

  “Outside of a Small Circle of Friends” (Ochs)

  Owen, Wilfrid

  “Oxford Town” (Dylan)

  Pacifica Radio

  Paine, Tom

  “Parable of the Old Men and the Young” (Owen)

  paranoia

  Paris

  Parks, Rosa

  Parsons, Gram

  Patchen, Kenneth

  “Patriot Game,”

  Patton, Charley

  Paul Butterfield Blues Band

  Paxton, Phil

  Paxton, Tom

  Peace News

  Pearl Harbor

  Peck, Abe

  “Peggy Day” (Dylan)

  Pennebaker, D.A.

  “People Get Ready” (Mayfield)

  People’s Songs

  People’s World

  “Percy’s Song” (Dylan)

  Perkins, Carl

  Peter, Paul and Mary

  Phu, Dien Bien

  Piao, Lin

  Picasso, Pablo

  “Pinball Wizard” (the Who)

  Playboy

  “Please Mrs. Henry” (Dylan)

  “Please, Please Me” (Beatles)

  Pleasures of the Harbor (Ochs)

  “Pledging My Time” (Dylan)

  politics, disillusionment with

  Pop culture

  as industry

  in United States

  Port Huron Statement

  “Positively 4th Street” (Dylan)

  lyrics of

  Potter, Paul

  Pound, Ezra

  “Power and Glory” (Dylan)

  Prague

  Prairie Power

  “The Preacher and the Slave,”

  Presley, Elvis

  “Pretty Boy Floyd” (Guthrie)

  Princeton University

  Progressive Labor (PL)

  Protest songs

  Protests. See also March on Washington

  in Albany

  against Cambodian invasion

  in Chicago

  against Iraq war

  Vietnam War

  in Washington D.C.

  worldwide

  “Queen Jane Approximately” (Dylan)

  Racism

  Rainbow Room

  “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” (Dylan)

  “Ramblin on My Mind” (Johnson)

  Ramos, Sugar

  Reagan, Ronald

  Reagon, Bernice Johnson

  Reed, Jo
hn

  Rehearsals for Retirement (Ochs)

  “Restless Farewell” (Dylan)

  Reuther, Walter

  “Revolution” (Beatles)

  “Revolution” (Simone)

  Rexroth, Kennet

  Rich, Adrienne

  Richards, I.A.

  Richards, Keith

  Riesman, David

  Rimbaud

  “Ringing of the Revolution” (Ochs)

  “Riot in Cell Block No. 9” (Lieber and Stoller)

  “Rising High Water Blues” (Jefferson)

  The Rising (Springsteen)

  Ritchie, Jean

  Rite of Spring (Stravinsky)

  Ritter, Tex

  The Road and the Miles to Dundee”

  Robertson, Robbie

  Robeson, Paul

  Robinson, Earl

  Robinson, Smokey

  “Rock Island Line” (Leadbelly)

  Rockefeller, Winthrop

  rock ’n’ roll

  folk and

  Rodgers, Jimmie

  Rogers, Will

  “Rollin’ Stone” (Muddy Waters)

  Rolling Stone (magazine)

  Rolling Stones

  Rolling Thunder

  Roots (Mayfield)

  Roth, Philip

  Rotolo, Carla

  Rotolo, Suze

  Rubin, Jerry

  Russell, Bertrand

  Rustin, Bayard

  Ryan, Robert

  Sacco and Vanzetti

  Sadler, Barry

  Sainte-Marie, Buffy

  sales, of records

  Samuel, Raphael

  San Francisco

  “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)” (McKenzie)

  San Quentin

  Sandburg, Carl

  Sanger, Margaret

  “Santo Domingo” (Ochs)

  Savon, Felix

  Schwerner, Mickey

  Scottsboro

  Seale, Bobby

  Seeger, Peggy

  Seeger, Pete

  Seeger, Ruth Crawford

  Self Portrait (Dylan)

  release of

  Selma (Alabama)

  September

  Sergeant Pepper (Beatles)

  Set-Up

  “Seven Curses” (Dylan)

  sexual liberation

  Sharp, Cecil

  “She Belongs to Me” (Dylan)

  Shelton, Robert

  “She’s Your Lover Now” (Dylan)

  Silber, Irwin

  Simone, Nina

  Sinatra, Frank, Jr.

  Sinclair, John

  on Springsteen

  Sing Out!

  Singer’s Clubs

  Singing Englishman (Lloyd)

  Singing Socialists

  Sit-in movements

  Skelton, John

  skiffle

  Slow Train Coming (Dylan)

  Smith, Bessie

  Smith, Harry

  Smith, Kate

  Snow, Hank

  Snyder, Gary

  “So Long It’s Been Good to Know You” (Guthrie)

  social movements, music and

  “Song to Woody” (Dylan)

  Songs for John Doe (Almanac Singers)

  Sonnets in Praise of Capital Punishment (Wordsworth)

  Soviet Union

  “Spanish Harlem Incident” (Dylan)

  Springsteen, Bruce

 

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