{"id":7391,"date":"2019-02-10T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2023-01-01T08:55:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T16:55:04","slug":"cover-me-rotd-i-aint-got-no-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/10\/cover-me-rotd-i-aint-got-no-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me\/RotD: I Ain’t Got No Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce has a penchant for taking songs (both traditional and popular) and recasting them, adding or replacing lyrics and creating new layers of meaning. He’s done that on a spectrum that spans from “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?<\/a>” to “Jersey Girl<\/a>,” from “Hard Times Come Again No More<\/a>” to “Trapped<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

But of all the songs Bruce has taken liberties with, Woody Guthrie’s “I Ain’t Got No Home” is perhaps the most fitting, because Guthrie himself is very likely Bruce’s patron saint when it comes to musical adaptations.<\/p>\n

In fact, Guthrie took liberties himself with this song, lifting and responding to the traditional hymn, “I Can’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore.”<\/p>\n