Woody Guthrie may have played in the '40s, but Tim Brennan of Dropkick Murphys tells us he's the first punk rocker.
guitarist Tim Brennan says that both musically and culturally speaking, Guthrie is a big influence for the Irish music-infused Boston punk band. The fact that Guthrie wrote the lyrics to “I'm Shipping Up to Boston,” Dropkick Murphys' best-known song, imparts an even more personal connection between the two.
“I don’t know if there are people who have waited to see us until they could take a seat,” he says. “We are super psyched to to have people that either weren’t entirely aware of us or hadn’t come to see us before.” His mind goes to the blatant racism that remains dyed into the wool of American life. “You can never truly say there wasn’t any racism left in this country,” he says. “But if you look at the civil rights era, you could probably easily convince yourself that things are different now. But it all gets kicked up again, and you realize it’s just as bad now as it was back then.”
“Most people didn’t know those were Woody Guthrie lyrics,” Brennan says. “We talked about how it would be nice to do some more Woody stuff.” "She couldn’t not have been more supportive,” Brennan says. “There was not one thing we wanted to try that she said 'no' to.”
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