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SXSW Song of the Day: SUSS – This Land Is Your Land

Posted on
16 Jan 2025
by
Paul

Woody Guthrie is one of the most significant figures of 20th Century folk music. With a strong sense of social justice, he wrote songs about class struggle, anti-fascism, and other important issues of his time while going on to inspire countless musicians. Perhaps his best known song is “This Land Is Your Land,” a patriotic song in the truest sense with its lyrics touching on themes of equality and inclusion.

With their cover of the tune, NYC-based ambient country trio SUSS pay tribute to Guthrie, evoking the spirit of his lyrics even though their version is entirely instrumental. As the band explains in a statement released alongside the track,

Great songs endure. The sentiments expressed by Woody Guthrie in his 1940 classic are no different today; the Dust Bowl and the social upheaval it caused may have faded from memory, but the truths of fairness and equality are timeless, like the songs they inhabit. Music exists to connect, and its lessons are deeply ingrained. You don’t need a lyric to feel it, you already know that truth will persist as long as there is someone to hear it.

SUSS will soon be heading out on tour alongside Immersion, the London-based duo with whom they collaborated on the upcoming Nanocluster Vol. 3 album. Both acts will be kicking off that tour with some shows at SXSW this March.

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