About This Song
About "Deportee (with Ry Cooder & Dan Gellert)" by Ani Difranco
Ani DiFranco joins Ry Cooder and Dan Gellert for 'Deportee,' a Woody Guthrie tribute. The folk-punk urgency meets rootsy lament, the title a stark label for the displaced. Vivid imagery of borderlines and broken promises, tension between empathy and injustice, a live wire of righteous sorrow.