Ideé d’jour

What are the Links in the Chain of Trouble that shackles your legs so you caint follow the call of your ambition? Fear is a Link. Greed is a Link. Laziness is a Link. Ignorance is a Link. Hatred is a Link. Impatience is a Link. There are lots more of them. And they is an Axe that'll cut those Links - any of them, all of them, in one strong, determined, stroke. Friendship. Faith. Love. Call it whatever you want. Woody Guthrie (1912 - 1967), Woody & Lefty Lou's One Thousand and One Laffs and Your Free Gift of One Hundred and One Songs, April 1938

Quoted in liner notes (Logsdon & Place) for Muleskinner Blues, The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2, Smithsonian Folkways, 1997, Washington, DC