Boston's Celt-punks Dropkick Murphys have delivered a new video for the song “Gotta Get To Peekskill” featuring the legendary Violent Femmes.
The song comes from the recently announced Okemah Rising the follow-up to last year's This Machine Still Kills Fascists. Both albums are built around recently unearthed, previously unpublished lyrics written by Woody Guthrie. Okemah Rising will drop on 12 May and can be ordered here.
“Gotta Get To Peekskill” follows the 1949 events in which the Ku Klax Klan tried to prevent a Paul Robeson concert in New York, only to have the performance rescheduled for a week later with many added musicians, including Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
Check out “Gotta Get To Peeksville” below.
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