Dropkick Murphys had such a fun time recording (and touring) last year’s collection of songs featuring the unpublished lyrics of Woody Guthrie – This Machine Still Kills Fascists – that they’re back for another round! Due out May 12th, the new album is called Okemah Rising, and features ten more tracks for which the Dropkicks wrote music around a set of unpublished Guthrie words.
Okemah Rising finds them reuniting with Ted Hutt in the producer’s chair, and features guest spots from Violent Femmes, Jesse Ahern and Jaime Wyatt.
You can pre-save Okemah Rising here and pre-order it on CD/vinyl here, and check out the video for the first single, “I Know How It Feels,” below!