geoMp3 of The Week: Woodie Guthrie’s “Philadelphia Lawyer”
Well, I couldn’t care less about baseball, but I’m very busy and need to phone this one in. It’s Woodie Guthrie giving it to a “Philadelphia Lawyer” who made a little love to a cowboy’s “Hollywood maid.” There’s actually a lot going on here that I could get into if I had the time — not least of which is that I think I could pretty easily tie this to the anti-intellectualism that has taken deep root in the modern socio-political scene and the complicated mythos of westward expansion, frontierism, and…wait for it…maverickism (seriously) — but I ain’t got no time (is that better? Does that make me seem more patriotic?)
Anyway, because Philadelphia’s been in the news, because I’m swamped, because it at least mentions places, and because it always helps to have Woodie Guthrie around, feel free to do with Guthrie’s “Philadelphia Lawyer” what you please. But I’m dropping it wherever TeleAtlas tells me “Philadelphia” is (also because I’m too lazy to research the story that supposedly inspired this song).
And the kml for all mp3s of the week.
