Description
It’s been nearly two decades since Nora Guthrie contacted Dropkick Murphys with an idea. She thought her father and the Murphys were very similar, and that he would enjoy what they do. Woody Guthrie has written thousands of songs, and after browsing his extensive archive, the Murphy’s took some of his lyrics which would then go on to become songs such as Blackout, and one of their biggest commercial successes, Shipping up to Boston.
The guys have always wanted to go back and look and gather even more ideas, and now the band has taken on a project in which they have done just that. This Machine Still Kills Fascists takes Guthrie lyrics in a strip down back to the roots acoustic style album, which is unlike something the guys have ever done before.
It’s not just the lyrics from Woody that are frozen in time, which could have been written by him today with how relevant it is to the current political and social climate, but intentionally or not, it feels like a nice little nod to the way things were back then musically, and how artists would do their instrumentation and arrangements.
