Okemah is the Oklahoma birthplace of Woody Guthrie, so it's reasonable to expect that the protest songs on Son Volt's "Okemah and the Melody of Riot" will recall the Dust Bowl balladeer. He's in there somewhere, and not just in "Bandages & Scars," the opening track that drops his name. But on its...
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Okemah is the Oklahoma birthplace of Woody Guthrie, so it's reasonable to expect that the protest songs on Son Volt's "Okemah and the Melody of Riot" will recall the Dust Bowl balladeer. He's in there somewhere, and not just in "Bandages & Scars," the opening track that drops his name. But on its...