And remember the name of that good Reuben James Not everyone forgot so quickly. Perhaps most widely remembered of those who remembered Old Rube was folksinger Woody Guthrie. An ardent anti-fascist ...

So goes the refrain from the song “The Sinking of the Reuben James,” composed by Woody Guthrie and covered by folk singers ranging from Oscar Brand to The Highwaymen. The title and lyrics ...

wrote this song about the USS Reuben James, which was sunk by a U-boat in 1941. This version is from Pete’s album, Sings Woody Guthrie, from 1968. During her interval performance at the 2017 ...

Without Woody ... “[James Lynch] had come up with the riff and it was so powerful, but I was just labouring to find a lyric that worked with it.” Though after laboring and laboring, Guthrie ...