Woody Speaks - my instrumental homage to Woody Guthrie's optimism
Channel: Phil Shapiro
Date: 2011-12-14

My homage to Woody Guthrie. Composed spontaneously with Rico Livingston of Hyattsville, Maryland. We recorded this on our first take -- grabbing the audio from a camcorder tape. 

This music is sometimes played on NPR station WAMU as part of the Capital Soundtrack initiative. http://bandwidth.wamu.org/capital-soundtrack-is-on-hiatus/

After composing this music, Rico turned to me and said, "That sounds like the theme soundtrack to a feel-good film."

I replied, "Yes, that's the soundtrack to a new Tom Hanks film.  The only remaining thing to be done is to write and shoot the film. Whatever the film is - this music will carry it forward."  Life is like a box of chocolates. Sometimes you get the sweet one.