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When I think of poverty, poor working conditions, and just a hard hard life, I think of a guy who put the "folk" into folk music. Born in Oklahoma, saw his family fortune slip away in the Great Depression, travel by freight train to California. He dug ditches, painted signs, and sang in dingy saloons for money along the way.
When he got to California, and got his own radio show, then the songs rolling around in his head just flowed. Here's some; Talking Dust Bowl Blues, Talking Hard Work, The Dying Miner, John Henry, Hard Ain't It Hard, and many many more.
He spoke in working class dialect. He defines folk music IMHO.
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