The great American troubadour Woody Guthrie, who wrote our “second national anthem,” “This Land Is Your Land,” would have turned 100 this Saturday, had Huntington’s chorea not claimed him in 1967, ...
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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 ...
“This Land Is Your Land.” “This Train Is Bound For Glory.” Woody Guthrie showed you can strum a revolution and do it with joy. In this toe-tapping event for all generations, four actor-musicians play ...
New Woody Guthrie music is on the way. Fifty-eight years after the singer died, his estate announced that it will release a new album of his previously unreleased songs. Included on the album is a new ...
Folk is one of the oldest genres of music in the modern era, and in the last 70 years, its sound has evolved quite a bit, from Pete Seeger and Harry Belafonte in the '50s and '60s, Nick Drake's Pink ...
For the first time ever, you will be able to hear Woody Guthrie’s home recordings. A two-volume collection, called ‘Woody At Home — Volumes 1 & 2’, is set to be released. The collection contains 22 ...
A new album by Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), perhaps the most influential US folk artist, was released late last summer. Woody at Home, Vol. 1 & 2 contains songs – some already known, others previously ...
Woody Guthrie was born on July 14th, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. Over the decades, his songs have run around the world like a fast train on a well oiled track. They’ve become the folk song standards of ...
Lots of people know Woody Guthrie's classic 1940 ballad "This Land Is Your Land," but the story behind the tune may not be as familiar. Guthrie, who would have turned 100 this week, wrote "This Land" ...
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 ...
Folk music legend Woody Guthrie is releasing new music decades after his death. According to a new report from The New York Times, the Guthrie estate is preparing to release Woody at Home: Volume 1 ...