Jeffrey Brown:
British singer-songwriter and activist Billy Bragg’s relationship with Woody Guthrie goes back decades playing his music and helping bring it to new audiences. And Bragg was one of the first people Anna Canoni sought feedback from on the new release.
Billy Bragg, Singer-Songwriter and Activist: I heard someone trying to make sense of the life that they were living in New York in the early 1950s, reflecting not just what was happening around them, but what was happening in the home, what was happening in their day, what was happening in their life.
You either think of him out on the road covered in dust, or, if you know a little bit about him, in the Merchant Navy in the Second World War, but you certainly don’t imagine him sitting around looking after the kids in his house in Coney Island.
