About This Song
About "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" by Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie turns Woody Guthrie's elegy for migrant workers into a stark, acoustic lament. The 'plane wreck' imagery haunts every verse, a quiet fury beneath the gentle fingerpicking. It's a memorial that refuses to let the deportees vanish into silence, balancing grief with a defiant, mournful grace.