He inspired generations of singer-songwriters from Pete Seeger to Bruce Springsteen. Now on display in New York City: a new exhibit devoted to the legendary Woody Guthrie. He sang a song of America … ...
Woody’s old pal Pete Seeger said, “All songwriters are links in a chain.” And who did Pete learn to write songs from? Woody. Who so inspired and enervated a young Bob Dylan that he had to leave his ...
Hefting this weighty tome for an initial perusal, the word that first comes to mind is cornucopia. This extensive collection of lyrics, excerpts from journals and notebooks along with rare artwork and ...
WOODY GUTHRIE, singer, songwriter, poet, seafarer and union activist, penned over 3,000 songs in his lifetime. He influenced generations of musicians with songs about poverty, inequality, immigration, ...
A new, intimate album will include 13 previously unheard songs and a rewrite of “This Land Is Your Land.” By Jon Pareles In 1951, Woody Guthrie’s publisher gave him a newfangled piece of equipment: a ...
The recordings would be Guthrie’s last, as he spent the last years of his life hospitalized due to Huntington’s disease Decades after his death, new Woody Guthrie music is coming. The Woody Guthrie ...
The restless spirit of Woody Guthrie has a way of rising up again every few years to fire up a new throng of activists, artists and adventurers with his songs of hope, freedom, change and compassion.