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Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" was originally written as a caustic rebuttal to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," yet these songs that begin in conflict actually have much in common, tapping into a deep well of American song writing and patriotism that transcends race, politics, and class.
-- One of The Atlantic's Notable Releases of Fall 2013 -- "Entertaining and informative." -- New York Times Book Review "Engaging... Shaw wields an impressive grasp of American musical history." -- Boston Globe "[Shaw] is particularly good at nailing down the melodic ancestors for these Great American Anthems and for tracing the various revisions Berlin and Guthrie made to their songs along the way... This Land That I Love traverses, in a relatively small number of pages, the whole canvas of America." -- Slate "[Shaw] effectively connects ['This Land Is Your Land'] to earlier anthems... Ultimately, This Land That I Love is about more than two songs, or the two men who created them." -- Daily Beast "It's a lyrical mix of folklore, Americana, history, music theory, and pop culture that tracks how two supposedly opposing songs end up in the same place, on a short list of the best ditties ever written about the American experience." --Biographile
John Shaw has written on music and theatre for the Los Angeles Review of Books and Chicago Reader. He has written many songs and performed them in many contexts. He lives in Seattle with his family.
-- One of The Atlantic's Notable Releases of Fall 2013 -- "Entertaining and informative." -- New York Times Book Review "Engaging... Shaw wields an impressive grasp of American musical history." -- Boston Globe "[Shaw] is particularly good at nailing down the melodic ancestors for these Great American Anthems and for tracing the various revisions Berlin and Guthrie made to their songs along the way... This Land That I Love traverses, in a relatively small number of pages, the whole canvas of America." -- Slate "[Shaw] effectively connects ['This Land Is Your Land'] to earlier anthems... Ultimately, This Land That I Love is about more than two songs, or the two men who created them." -- Daily Beast "It's a lyrical mix of folklore, Americana, history, music theory, and pop culture that tracks how two supposedly opposing songs end up in the same place, on a short list of the best ditties ever written about the American experience." --Biographile
John Shaw has written on music and theatre for the Los Angeles Review of Books and Chicago Reader. He has written many songs and performed them in many contexts. He lives in Seattle with his family.