Here’s Woody Guthrie’s list of “New Years Rulin’s” from January 1, 1943. I post this most years, but it’s never not good and true.

And this year, I’ve got a song to go with it. Here’s my setting of Guthrie’s text, from the album Work Songs, which was released this past year:

perform­ers Becca Stevens, Gabriel Kahane, Ted Hearne, Nathan Koci, Taylor Levine, Timo Andres