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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This debut solo double album features one album of ten original songs and another album, comprising ten covers of Bruce's favourite folk songs.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Word is the Music the People are the Song via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A double CD with one CD of original songs and one CD of Bruce's interpretation of the folk songs which inspired him in his youth.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Word is the Music the People are the Song via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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One of Bob Dylan's best songs, off his debut album, it pays tribute to the influence which Woody had on him as a folklorist and singer song-writer.

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I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
Walking a road other men have gone down
I'm seeing a new world of people and things
Hear paupers……and peasants and princes and kings
Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song
About a funny old world that's coming along
Seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn
It looks like…… it's dying and it's hardly been born
Hey Woody Guthrie but I know that you know
All the things that I'm a saying and a many times more
I'm singing you the song but I can't sing enough
'Cause there's not many men done the things that you've done
Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly too
And all the good people that travelled with you
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come……with the dust and are gone with the wind.
I'm leaving tomorrow but I could leave today
Somewhere down the road someday
The very last thing that I'd want to do
Is to say…… I've been hitting some hard travelling too.

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from The Word is the Music the People are the Song, released February 26, 2021
Words and music by Bob Dylan

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Bruce Hearn Melbourne, Australia

Bruce Hearn has fronted the iconic Melbourne ska band, Strange Tenants, since 1981, with a back catalogue of 8 albums.
At heart however, he is a masterful singer/song writer, guitarist, banjo and harmonica player, and 2020 sees him releasing not one, but 2 double albums of original and iconic folk songs. His motto has always been 'if you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing'! ... more

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