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Talking Dust Bowl by Woody Guthrie album cover

Talking Dust Bowl

by Woody Guthrie

About This Song

About "Talking Dust Bowl" by Woody Guthrie

Talking Dust Bowl is Guthrie's spoken-word testimony, a dry, weathered voice recounting hardship with stark poetry. The guitar is a simple, repetitive figure, like wind over barren fields. It's not a song but a document—a raw, unflinching portrait of survival, its calm delivery belying the devastation.