Alan Lomax, Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, (Notes on the songs by Woody Guthrie, Music transcribed and edited and with an afterword by Pete Seeger)

On first going through the book Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, one may think this is just a collection of songs referring to the era where people actually had a reason to feel and be hard-hit. This, in itself, might well be a good starting point to delve into a difficult time in American history such as the Depression years and reflect on the impact it had on the individual’s daily life and well-being or the lack of it. As the story through music unfolds and this ‘journey’ takes us t...