Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie with guitar labeled "This machine kills fascists"
Background information
Birth name	Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Born	July 14, 1912(1912-07-14) Okemah, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died	October 3, 1967 (aged 55) New York City, New York, U.S.
Genre(s)	Folk
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Guitar, Vocal, Harmonica, Mandolin, Fiddle
Years active	1930 – 1956
Notable instrument(s)
Martin 000-18, Gibson Southern Jumbo, Gibson J-45

Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American songwriter and folk musician. Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Okemah is a city in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States. Oklahoma ( is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous Singer-songwriter is a term that refers to Performers who write, compose and sing their own material including Lyrics A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles Vocal music is Music performed by one or more Singers with or without non-vocal instrumental accompaniment A harmonica is a free reed Wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes (reed chambers or A mandolin is a musical instrument in the Lute family (plucked or strummed The CF Martin & Company is a US Guitar manufacturer established in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin. The Gibson Guitar Corporation of Nashville Tennessee, USA is a manufacturer of acoustic and Electric guitars The company's most popular guitar The Gibson J-45 is an acoustic guitar model manufactured by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous Guthrie's musical legacy consists of hundreds of songs, ballads and improvised works covering topics from political themes to traditional songs to children's songs. A ballad is a Poem usually set to Music; thus it often is a story told in a Song. Traditional music is the term now used in the terminology of Grammy Awards for what used to be called " folk music " Guthrie performed continually throughout his life with his guitar frequently displaying the slogan "This Machine Kills Fascists". Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology Guthrie is perhaps best known for his song "This Land Is Your Land" which is regularly sung in American schools. " This Land Is Your Land " is one of the United States ' most famous folk songs. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is the De facto National library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress ^[1]

Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned traditional folk and blues songs. His songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression and he is known as the "Dust Bowl Troubadour. The Dust Bowl, or the dirty thirties, was a period of severe Dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and "^[2] Guthrie was associated with, but never a member of, Communist groups in the United States throughout his life. Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based ^[3]

Guthrie was married three times and fathered eight children, including American folk musician Arlo Guthrie. See also Americana or Americana (music American folk music, also known as Roots music, is a broad category of music including Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10 1947 is an American folk singer He is the grandfather of musician Sarah Lee Guthrie. Sarah Lee Guthrie (born in Massachusetts on 17 February, 1979) and Johnny Irion (born in Columbia South Carolina Guthrie died from complications of the degenerative neurologic affliction known as Huntington's Disease. A degenerative disease is a disease in which the function or structure of the affected tissues or organs will progressively deteriorate over time whether due to normal Huntington's disease, also called Huntington's chorea, chorea major, or HD, is a genetic neurological disorder characterized after In spite of his illness, during his later years Guthrie served as a figurehead in the folk movement providing inspiration to a generation of new folk musicians, including mentor relationships with Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Bob Dylan. In politics a figurehead, by Metaphor with the carved figurehead at the prow of a sailing ship is a person who holds an important title or office yet executes little Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz, August 1, 1931) is an American folk performer Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major ^[4]

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life: 1912–1930 1.2 1930s: Traveling era 1.2.1 California 1.3 1940s: Building a legacy 1.3.1 New York City 1.3.2 Pacific Northwest 1.3.3 Almanac Singers 1.3.4 Bound for Glory 1.3.5 The Asch recordings 1.3.6 World War II years 1.3.7 Mermaid Avenue 1.4 1950s and 1960s 1.4.1 Deteriorating health 1.4.2 Folk revival and Guthrie's death 2 Musical legacy 2.1 Foundation and Archives 2.2 Folk Festival 2.3 Tributes 3 Posthumous honors 4 Selected discography 5 See also 6 Further reading/listening 7 References 7.1 Citations 7.2 Printed Sources 8 External links

Biography

Early life: 1912–1930

Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma to Nora Belle Sherman and Charles Edward Guthrie. Okfuskee County is a County located in the US state of Oklahoma. Okemah is a city in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States. ^[4] His parents named him after Woodrow Wilson, who was elected president the year Guthrie was born. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28 1856—February 3 1924 was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by Charles Guthrie, known as Charley, was an industrious businessman, owning at one time up to 30 plots of land in Okfuskee county. Charley was also actively involved in Oklahoma politics and was a Democratic candidate for office in the county. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The young Guthrie would often accompany his father when Charley made stump speeches in the area. A political stump speech is a standard speech used by a Politician running for office ^[5]

Guthrie's early family life included several tragic fires which caused the loss of their home in Okemah. His sister Clara died in an accidental coal oil fire when Guthrie was seven, and Guthrie's father was severely burned in a later coal oil fire. ^[6] The circumstances of these fires, especially Charley's accident, remain unclear. It is not known whether they were in fact accidents or the result of actions by Guthrie's mother who, unknown to the Guthries at the time, was suffering from a degenerative neurological disease. ^[7] Nora Guthrie was eventually committed to the Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane, where she died in 1930. It is believed she was a victim of Huntington's Disease, which would later result in her son's death. It is also suspected that Guthrie's maternal grandfather, George Sherman, suffered from the disease, due to circumstances surrounding his drowning death. ^[8]

With Nora Guthrie institutionalized and Charley Guthrie living in Pampa, Texas working to repay his debts from unsuccessful real estate deals, Woody Guthrie and his siblings were on their own in Oklahoma and relied on their eldest brother, Roy Guthrie, for support. Pampa is a city in Gray County, Texas, United States. The population was 17887 at the 2000 census Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. The fourteen year old Guthrie worked odd jobs around Okemah, bumming meals, and sometimes sleeping at the homes of family friends. According to one story, Guthrie made friends with an African-American blues harmonica player named "George", whom he would watch play at the man's shoe shine booth. Before long Guthrie bought his own harmonica and began playing along. ^[9] He seemed to have a natural affinity for music and easily learned to "play by ear". He began to use his musical skills around town, playing a song for a sandwich or coins. ^[10] Guthrie easily learned old Irish ballads and traditional songs from the parents of friends. Although Guthrie did not excel as a student—he dropped out of high school in his fourth year and did not graduate—his teachers described him as bright. He was also an avid reader and read books on a wide range of topics. Friends remember him reading constantly. ^[11]

Eventually, Guthrie's father sent for his son to come to Texas where little would change for the now-aspiring musician. Guthrie, 18 years old, was reluctant to attend high school classes in Pampa and spent a lot of time learning songs by busking on the streets and reading at the library. Busking is the practice of performing in Public places for Tips and Gratuities. He was growing as a musician, gaining practice by regularly playing at dances for his cousin Jeff Guthrie, a fiddle player. In addition, Guthrie spent much time at the library in Pampa's city hall and wrote a manuscript summarizing everything he had read on the basics of psychology. A librarian in Pampa shelved this manuscript under Guthrie's name, but it was later lost in a library reorganization. ^[11]

1930s: Traveling era

At age 19 Guthrie met and married his first wife, Mary Jennings, with whom he had three children. ^[12] With the advent of the Dust Bowl era, Guthrie left Texas, leaving Mary behind, and joined the thousands of Okies who were migrating to California looking for work. The Dust Bowl, or the dirty thirties, was a period of severe Dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Okie is a term dating from as early as 1907 denoting a resident or native of Oklahoma. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Many of his songs are concerned with the conditions faced by these working class people. Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types

"This song is Copyrighted in U. S. , under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. " Written by Guthrie in the late 1930s on a songbook distributed to listeners of his L. A. radio show "Woody and Lefty Lou" who wanted the words to his recordings. [13]

California

In the late 1930s, Guthrie achieved fame in Los Angeles, California, with radio partner Maxine "Lefty Lou" Crissman as a broadcast performer of commercial "hillbilly" music and traditional folk music. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Hillbilly is a term referring to people who dwell in remote Rural, Mountainous areas of the United States, primarily southern Appalachia and ^[14] Guthrie was making enough money to send for his family still living in Texas. While appearing on radio station KFVD, a commercial radio station owned by a populist-minded New Deal Democrat Frank Burke, Guthrie began to write and perform some of the protest songs that would eventually end up on Dust Bowl Ballads. KTNQ ( 1020 Radio AM) is a Radio station licensed to Los Angeles California with a Spanish News / Talk format The New Deal was the name that United States President Franklin D Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by Woody Guthrie, recorded for Victor Records during Guthrie's time in New York City in 1940 It was at KFVD that Guthrie met newscaster Ed Robbin. Robbin was impressed with a song Guthrie wrote about Thomas Mooney, a wrongly convicted man who was, at the time, a leftist cause célèbre. Thomas Joseph Mooney ( December 8, 1882 &ndash March 6, 1942) was an American labor leader in San Francisco A cause célèbre (plural causes célèbres, French famous case) is ^[15] Robbin, who became Guthrie's political mentor, introduced Guthrie to Socialists and Communists in Southern California, including Will Geer, who would remain Guthrie's lifelong friend, and helped Guthrie book benefit performances in the Communist circles in Southern California. Will Geer ( 9 March 1902 &ndash 22 April 1978) was an American Actor. Although Guthrie was never very interested in the party dogma, he shared Robbin's leanings. Despite Guthrie's later claim that, "the best thing that I did in 1936 was to sign up with the Communist Party"^[16] he was never a member of the Party. He was, however, noted as a fellow traveler, or an outsider who agrees with the platform of the party without being subject to party discipline. In some political contexts the term fellow traveler refers to a person who sympathizes with the beliefs of a particular organization but does not belong to that organization ^[17] Though not a party member, Guthrie requested to write a column for the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker. The Daily Worker was a newspaper published in New York City by the Communist Party USA, a Comintern -affiliated organization The column, titled "Woody Sez", appeared a total of 174 times from May 1939 to January 1940. The columns were not explicitly political, but rather were about current events that Guthrie observed and experienced. The columns were written in an exaggerated hillbilly dialect and usually included a small comic. ^[18] The columns were later published as a collection after Guthrie's death. ^[3] Steve Earle said of Woody, "I don't think of Woody Guthrie as a political writer. Stephen 'Steve' Fain Earle (ɝl is an American Singer-songwriter, well known for his rock and Country music, as well as his political views He was a writer who lived in very political times". ^[19]

With the outbreak of war and the nonaggression pact the Soviet Union had signed with Germany in 1939 KFVD radio owners did not want its staff "spinning apologia" for the Soviet Union; both Robbin and Guthrie left the station. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. ^[20] Without the daily radio show, prospects for employment diminished and Guthrie and his family returned to Pampa, Texas. Although Mary Guthrie was happy to return to Texas, the wanderlusting Guthrie soon after accepted Will Geer's invitation to come to New York City and headed east. The City of New York

1940s: Building a legacy

New York City

Arriving in New York, Guthrie, known as the Oklahoma cowboy, was embraced by its leftist folk music community and slept on a couch in Will Geer's apartment. Guthrie also made what were his first real recordings—several hours of conversation and songs that were recorded by folklorist Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress—as well as an album, Dust Bowl Ballads, for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey. Alan Lomax ( January 15, 1915 &ndash July 19, 2002) was an American folklorist and musicologist. The Library of Congress is the De facto National library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by Woody Guthrie, recorded for Victor Records during Guthrie's time in New York City in 1940 Victrola redirects here For other uses see Victrola (disambiguation The Victor Talking Machine Company ( 1901 – 1929 The City of Camden is the County seat of Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. ^[21]

Guthrie was tired of the radio overplaying Kate Smith's "God Bless America. Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith ( May 1, 1907 &ndash June 17, 1986) was an American Singer, best known for her rendition " God Bless America " is an American Patriotic song " He thought the song was unrealistic and complacent. ^[22] Partly inspired by his experiences during a cross-country trip and his distaste for God Bless America, he penned his most famous song, "This Land Is Your Land" in February 1940. " This Land Is Your Land " is one of the United States ' most famous folk songs. It was titled "God Blessed America. " The melody is based on the gospel song "Oh My Loving Brother", best known as "Little Darling, Pal of Mine", sung by the country group The Carter Family. The Carter Family was a Country music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956 Guthrie signed the manuscript with the comment "All you can write is what you see, Woody G. , N. Y. , N. Y. , N. Y. ". ^[23] He protested class inequality in the final verses:

In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;

By the relief office, I'd seen my people.

As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,

Is this land made for you and me?

As I went walking, I saw a sign there,

And on the sign there, It said "no trespassing. " [In another version, the sign reads "Private Property"]

But on the other side, it didn't say nothing!

That side was made for you and me.

These verses were often omitted in subsequent recordings, sometimes by Guthrie. Though the song was written in 1940, it would be four years before it was recorded by Moses Asch in April 1944,^[24] and even longer until sheet music was produced and given to schools by Howie Richmond. ^[25]

In March 1940, Guthrie was invited to play at a benefit hosted by The Steinbeck Committee to Aid Farm Workers to raise money for Migrant Workers. John Steinbeck's book The Grapes of Wrath was quite popular. John Steinbeck III (February 27 1902—December 20 1968 was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century The Grapes of Wrath is a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for It was at this concert Guthrie met Pete Seeger and the two men became good friends. Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3 1919 is an American folk singer political Activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American ^[26] Later Seeger accompanied Guthrie back to Texas to meet other members of the Guthrie family and has recalled an awkward conversation with Mary Guthrie's mother in which she asked Seeger's help in persuading Guthrie to treat her daughter better. ^[27]

Guthrie had some success in New York at this time as a guest on CBS's radio program Back Where I Come From and used his influence to get a spot on the show for his friend Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Huddie William Ledbetter, (January 1888 – December 6 1949 was an American folk and Blues Musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing Ledbetter's Tenth Street apartment was a gathering spot for the left wing musician circle in New York at the time and Guthrie and Ledbetter were good friends after having busked together at bars in Harlem. ^[28]

In September 1940 Guthrie was invited by the Model Tobacco company to host their radio program "Pipe Smoking Time". Guthrie was paid $180 a week, an impressive salary in 1940. ^[29] He was finally making enough money to send regular payments back to Mary and eventually brought Mary and the children to New York, where the family lived in an apartment on Central Park West. Central Park West (CPW is an avenue that runs north-south in the New York City borough of Manhattan, in the United States. The reunion represented Woody's desire to be a better father and husband. He said "I have to set [sic] real hard to think of being a dad". ^[29] Unfortunately for the newly relocated family, Guthrie quit after the seventh broadcast, claiming he had begun to feel the show was too restricting when he was told what to sing. ^[30] Disgruntled with New York, Guthrie packed up Mary and his children in a new car and headed west to California. ^[31]

Pacific Northwest

In May 1941, after a brief stay in Los Angeles, Guthrie moved the family to Washington in the Pacific northwest on the promise of a job. Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Pacific Northwest is a region in the northwest of North America (the term refers to the land not the ocean A documentary, directed by Gunther von Fritsch, was being created in support of the Bonneville Power Administration's building of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River and needed a narrator. The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA is an American Federal agency based in the Pacific Northwest. Grand Coulee Dam is a Hydroelectric Gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U The Columbia River (known as Supported by a recommendation from Alan Lomax, the original idea was to have Guthrie narrate the film and sing songs onscreen. The original project was projected to take one year to complete but when filmmakers became worried about the implications of casting such a political figure, Guthrie's role was minimized. He was hired instead for one month only by the Department of the Interior to write songs about the Columbia River and the building of the federal dams for the documentary's soundtrack. The United States Department of the Interior ( DOI) is a Cabinet department of the United States government that manages and conserves most federally The Columbia River (known as Although the film was never released in anything but a limited form, some good did come of the project. When Guthrie and a driver toured the Columbia River and the Pacific Northwest, Guthrie said he "couldn't believe it, it's a paradise",^[32] and was creatively inspired. In one month Guthrie wrote 26 songs including three of his most famous: "Roll On Columbia", "Pastures of Plenty", and "Grand Coulee Dam". "Pastures of Plenty" is a 1941 composition by Woody Guthrie. Grand Coulee Dam is a Hydroelectric Gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U ^[33] The surviving songs were eventually released as Columbia River Songs.

At the conclusion of the month in Washington, Guthrie wanted to return to New York. Tired of the continual uprooting, Mary Guthrie told him to go without her and the children. ^[34] Although Guthrie would see Mary again, once on a tour through Los Angeles with the Almanac Singers, it was essentially the end of their marriage. Divorce was difficult with Mary being a member of the Catholic Church, but she reluctantly agreed in December 1943. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". ^[35]

Almanac Singers

Main article: Almanac Singers

Following the conclusion of his work in Washington State, Guthrie corresponded with Pete Seeger about Seeger's newly formed folk-protest group, the Almanac Singers. The Almanac Singers were a group of Folk musicians who as their name indicates specialized in topical songs especially songs connected with union organizing Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3 1919 is an American folk singer political Activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American The Almanac Singers were a group of Folk musicians who as their name indicates specialized in topical songs especially songs connected with union organizing Guthrie returned to New York with plans to tour the country as a member of the group. ^[36] The singers originally worked out of a loft in New York City hosting regular concerts called hootenannys, a word Pete and Woody had picked up in their cross-country travels. Hootenanny was used in the early twentieth century America to refer to things whose names were forgotten or unknown The singers eventually outgrew the space and moved into the cooperative Almanac House in Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan

Initially Guthrie helped write and sing what the Almanacs Singers termed "peace" songs. After America's entry into World War II the topics of their songs became more specifically anti-fascist. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The members of the Almanac Singers and residents of the Almanac House were a loosely defined group of musicians, though the 'core' members included Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Millard Lampell and Lee Hays. Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3 1919 is an American folk singer political Activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American Millard Lampell ( January 23, 1919 - October 3, 1997) was an American movie and television screenwriter who first became publicly known as a member Lee Hays ( March 14, 1914 - August 26, 1981) was an American folk-singer and songwriter best known for singing bass with The In keeping with common socialist ideals, meals, chores and rent at the Almanac House were shared. The Sunday hootenannys were good opportunities to collect donation money for rent. Songs written in the Almanac House had shared songwriting credits between all the members, although in the case of "Union Maid", members would later state that Guthrie wrote the song, ensuring that his children would receive residuals. Union Maid is a Union song written by Woody Guthrie in response to a request for a union song from a female point of view ^[37]

In the Almanac House Guthrie added an air of authenticity to their work since Guthrie was a "real" working class Oklahoman. "There was the heart of America personified in Woody. . . . And for a New York Left that was primarily Jewish, first or second generation American, and was desperately trying to get Americanized, I think a figure like Woody was of great, great importance", a friend of the group, Irwin Silber, would say. Irwin Silber (born October 17[[ 925]] is an American journalist, editor, Publisher, radio show host and political activist ^[38] Woody would routinely emphasize his working class image, reject songs he felt were not in the country blues vein he was familiar with, and would rarely contribute to household chores. House member Agnes "Sis" Cunningham, another Okie, would later recall that Woody, "loved people to think of him as a real working class person and not an intellectual". Agnes ("Sis" Cunningham ( February 19, 1909, Watonga Oklahoma &ndash June 27, 2004) was an American Musician ^[39] Guthrie contributed songwriting and authenticity in much the same capacity for Pete Seeger's post-Almanac Singers project People's Songs, a newsletter and booking organization for labor singers, founded in 1945. People's Songs was an organization founded by Pete Seeger on December 31, 1945, in New York City, to "create promote and distribute ^[40]

Bound for Glory

Guthrie was a prolific writer, penning thousands of pages of unpublished poems and prose, including many written while living in New York City. After a recording session with Alan Lomax, Lomax suggested Guthrie write an autobiography; in Lomax's opinion, Guthrie's descriptions of growing up were some of the best accounts of American childhood that he had read. ^[41] It was during this time that Guthrie met a dancer in New York who would become his second wife, Marjorie Mazia. Marjorie Mazia Guthrie ( October 6, 1917 &ndash March 13, 1983) was for a time the wife of folk musician Woody Guthrie, and was the Mazia was an instructor at the prestigious Martha Graham Dance School where she was assisting Sophie Maslow with her piece Folksay. Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance is located in New York City and is the headquarter to the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and the Martha Graham Dance Sophie Maslow ( March 22, 1911 - June 25, 2006) was an American choreographer modern dancer and teacher and founding member of New Dance Based on the folklore and poetry collected by Carl Sandburg, it included the adaptation of some of Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads for the dance studio. Carl August Sandburg ( January 6, 1878 &ndash July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor best known for his Poetry ^[42] He continued writing songs and, as Lomax had suggested, began work on his autobiography. The end product, Bound For Glory was completed in no small part due to the patient editing assistance of Mazia and was first published by E. Bound for Glory is the partially fictionalized Autobiography of folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie. P. Dutton in 1943. ^[43] It is a vivid tale told in the artist's own down-home dialect, with the flair and imagery of a true storyteller. Library Journal complained about the "Too careful reproduction of illiterate speech. "^[44] But Clifton Fadiman, reviewing the book in the New York Times, paid the author a fine tribute: "Some day people are going to wake up to the fact that Woody Guthrie and the ten thousand songs that leap and tumble off the strings of his music box are a national possession like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and part of the best stuff this country has to show the world. "^[44] A film adaptation of Bound for Glory was released in 1976. Bound for Glory is a 1976 biographical film which tells the story of folk singer Woody Guthrie, with David Carradine in the title ^[45]

The Asch recordings

In 1944, Guthrie met Moses "Moe" Asch of Folkways Records, for whom he first recorded "This Land Is Your Land", and over the next few years recorded "Worried Man Blues", along with hundreds of other songs. Moses ("Moe" Asch (born December 2, 1905, Warsaw; died October 19, 1986, New York City) was the founder Folkways Records is a Record label that documents folk and world music Worried Man Blues is a Folk song in the roots music repertoire The discography of Woody Guthrie is somewhat difficult to construct These recordings would later be released by Folkways and Stinson Records who had joint distribution rights to the recordings. ^[46] The Folkways recordings are still available today with the most complete series of these sessions, culled from dates with Asch, simply titled The Asch Recordings. Recorded in 1944 and 1945 'The Asch Recordings' are possibly Woody Guthrie's most famous recordings conducted over a series of days by Moses "Moe" Asch in New York

World War II years

Guthrie believed performing his anti-fascist songs and poems at home were the best use of his talents; Guthrie lobbied the United States Army to accept him as a USO performer instead of in the draft. When Guthrie's attempts failed, his friend Cisco Houston, pressured Guthrie along with Jim Longhi to join the U.S. Merchant Marine. Gilbert Vandine 'Cisco' Houston ( August 18, 1918 – April 29, Overview The merchant marine is a civilian auxiliary of the U ^[47] Guthrie served as a mess man and dish washer, and he frequently sang for the crew and troops to buoy the spirits on transatlantic voyages. Guthrie made attempts to write about his experience in the Merchant Marine but was never satisfied with the results. Longhi later wrote about these experiences in his book Woody, Cisco and Me. ^[48] The book offers a rare first-hand account of Guthrie during his military service. In 1945, Guthrie's association with Communism made him ineligible for further service in the Merchant Marine and he was drafted into the U.S. Army. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. ^[49]

While he was on furlough from the Army Guthrie and Marjorie were married. Marjorie Mazia Guthrie ( October 6, 1917 &ndash March 13, 1983) was for a time the wife of folk musician Woody Guthrie, and was the ^[50] After his discharge, they moved into a house on Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island and over time had four children. Coney Island is a Peninsula, formerly an island in southernmost Brooklyn, New York City, USA with a Beach on the Atlantic Ocean One of their children, Cathy, died as a result of a fire at age four, sending Guthrie into a serious depression. ^[51] Their other children were named Joady, Nora and Arlo. Arlo followed in his father's footsteps as a singer-songwriter. Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10 1947 is an American folk singer During this period, Guthrie wrote and recorded, Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child, a collection of children's music, which includes the song "Goodnight Little Arlo (Goodnight Little Darlin')", written when Arlo was about nine years old. Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child is a collection of Children's music by Folk singer Woody Guthrie. Children's music is Music composed and performed by or for Children.

The 1948 crash of a plane carrying 28 Mexican farm workers from Oakland, California, on their way to be deported back to Mexico inspired Woody to write "Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)". An aviation accident is defined in the International Civil Aviation Organization Annex 13 Oakland (ˈoʊklənd founded in 1852 is the eighth-largest city in the U Deportation, not to be confused with Extradition, generally means the expulsion of someone from a place or Country. " Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos " is a Protest song with lyrics by Woody Guthrie detailing the crash of a plane near Los Gatos Canyon which ^[52]

Mermaid Avenue

The years living on Mermaid Avenue were among Guthrie's most productive periods as a writer. His extensive writings from this time were archived and maintained by Marjorie and later his estate, mostly handled by Guthrie's daughter Nora. Several of the manuscripts contain scribblings by a young Arlo and the other Guthrie offspring. ^[53]

During this time Ramblin' Jack Elliott studied extensively under Guthrie, visiting his home and observing how he wrote and performed. Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz, August 1, 1931) is an American folk performer Elliott, like Bob Dylan later, idolized Guthrie and was inspired by his idiomatic performance style and repertoire. Due to Guthrie's illness, Dylan and Guthrie's son Arlo would later claim that they learned much of Guthrie's performance style from Elliott. When asked about Arlo's claim, Elliott said, "I was flattered. Dylan learned from me the same way I learned from Woody. Woody didn't teach me. He just said, If you want to learn something, just steal it — that's the way I learned from Lead Belly. "^[54]

1950s and 1960s

Deteriorating health

By the late 1940s, Guthrie's health was worsening and his behavior becoming extremely erratic. He received various diagnoses (including alcoholism and schizophrenia), but in 1952 was finally diagnosed to be suffering from Huntington's Disease, the genetic disorder believed to have caused the death of his mother. Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions Schizophrenia ( from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν "to split" and phrēn Huntington's disease, also called Huntington's chorea, chorea major, or HD, is a genetic neurological disorder characterized after A genetic disorder is a condition caused by abnormalities in Genes or Chromosomes While some diseases such as Cancer, are due to genetic abnormalities acquired Believing him to be a danger to their children, Marjorie suggested he return to California without her and they eventually divorced. ^[55]

Upon his return to California, Guthrie lived in a compound owned by Will Geer with blacklisted singers and actors waiting out the political climate. As his health worsened he met and married his third wife, Anneke Van Kirk, and they had a child, Lorina Lynn. The couple moved to Florida briefly, living in a bus on land owned by a friend. Guthrie's arm was hurt in a campfire accident when gasoline used to start the campfire exploded. Although in time he regained movement in the arm he was not able to play the guitar again. In 1954 the couple returned to New York. ^[56] Shortly after that, Anneke filed for divorce, a result of the strain of caring for Guthrie. Anneke left New York, allowing friends to adopt Lorina Lynn. After the divorce, Guthrie's second wife Marjorie reentered his life. Marjorie cared for him and assisted him until his death.

Guthrie, increasingly unable to control his muscle movements, was hospitalized at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital from 1956 to 1961, at Brooklyn State Hospital until 1966,^[57] and finally at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center until his death. Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital (also known as Greystone Psychiatric Park, Greystone Psychiatric Hospital, or simply Greystone) refers to both the former Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens Village Queens, New York, provides inpatient outpatient and residential services for severely mentally ill patients ^[58] Marjorie and the children visited Guthrie at Greystone every Sunday. They answered fan mail and played on the hospital grounds. Eventually a longtime fan of Guthrie invited the family to his nearby home for these Sunday visits lasting until Guthrie was moved to the Brooklyn State Hospital, which was closer to where Marjorie lived. Guthrie's illness was essentially untreated due to a lack of information about the disease at the time. However, his death helped raise awareness of the disease and led Marjorie to help found the Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease, which became the Huntington's Disease Society of America. Huntington's Disease Society of America is a national non-profit organization committed to finding a cure for Huntington's disease. ^[59] None of Guthrie's three remaining children with Marjorie have developed symptoms of Huntington's, but two of Mary Guthrie's children (Gwendolyn and Sue) were diagnosed with the disease. Both died at 41 years of age. ^[60]

Folk revival and Guthrie's death

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a new generation of young people were inspired by folk singers including Guthrie. These "folk revivalists" became more politically aware in their music. The American Folk Revival was beginning to take place, focused on the issues of the day, such as the civil rights movement and free speech movement. The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States in the 1950s to mid-1960s The American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968 refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African The Free Speech Movement (FSM was a Student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 school year on the campus of the University of California Berkeley under Pockets of folk singers were forming around the country in places like Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan The City of New York Many of these musicians had heard of Guthrie, but one of the first to visit him in the Brooklyn State Hospital was Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major Dylan idolized Guthrie, calling him his hero. Soon after learning of Guthrie's whereabouts, these new, young folk singers regularly visited him during the final years of his life, playing his own songs for him as well as their originals. ^[61] Guthrie died of complications of Huntington's disease in 1967. By the time of his death, his work had been discovered by a new audience, introduced to them in part through Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, his ex-wife Marjorie and other new members of the folk revival, and his son Arlo. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3 1919 is an American folk singer political Activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz, August 1, 1931) is an American folk performer Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10 1947 is an American folk singer Since his death, artists have paid tribute to Guthrie by covering his songs or by dedicating songs to him. In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released One of the first artists to do so was Scottish folk artist Donovan, who covered Guthrie's "Car, Car (Riding in My Car)" on his 1965 debut album What's Bin Did And What's Bin Hid. Donovan ( Donovan Phillips Leitch, born 10 May 1946 in Glasgow) is a Scottish Singer-songwriter and guitarist ^[62]

Musical legacy

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built. I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. "[63] Guthrie on songwriting

Foundation and Archives

Main article: Woody Guthrie Foundation

The Woody Guthrie Foundation is a non-profit organization that serves as administrator and caretaker of the Woody Guthrie Archives. The Woody Guthrie Foundation, founded in 1972 is a non-profit organization that serves as administrator and caretaker of the Woody Guthrie Archives The archive houses the largest collection of Guthrie material in the world. ^[64] Guthrie's unrecorded written lyrics housed at the Archives have been the starting point of several albums including the Wilco and Billy Bragg albums Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II. Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of Alternative country group Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957 in Essex, England) better known as Billy Bragg, is an English musician who Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 Album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written Mermaid Avenue Vol II is a 2000 album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, ^[65]

Folk Festival

Main article: Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival is held annually in mid-July to commemorate Guthrie's life and music. The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival is held annually in mid-July to commemorate the life and music of Woody Guthrie. The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival is held annually in mid-July to commemorate the life and music of Woody Guthrie. The festival is held on the weekend closest to Guthrie's birth date (July 14) in Guthrie's hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma. Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Okemah is a city in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States. Planned and implemented annually by the Woody Guthrie Coalition, a non-profit corporation, the goal is simply to ensure Guthrie's musical legacy. ^[66][67]The Woody Guthrie Coalition commissioned a local Creek Indian sculptor to cast a full-body bronze statue of Guthrie and his guitar, complete with the guitar's well-known inscription: "This machine kills fascists". ^[68] The statue, sculpted by artist Dan Brooks, stands along Okemah's main street in the heart of downtown and was unveiled the inaugural year of the festival. ^[69]

Tributes

On January 20, 1968, three months following Guthrie's death, Harold Leventhal produced "A Tribute to Woody Guthrie" at New York City's Carnegie Hall. Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Harold Leventhal (1919-2005 was an American music manager He died in 2005 at the age of 86 Carnegie Hall (generally ˌkɑrnɨgi ˈhɔːl is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east ^[70] Performers included Jack Elliott, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Bob Dylan and The Band, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Odetta and others. Leventhal repeated the tribute on September 12, 1970 at the Hollywood Bowl. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Hollywood Bowl is a famous modern Amphitheatre in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles California, USA, that is used primarily for music Performances Recordings of the two concerts were eventually released as 2 LPs then later as one CD. ^[71]

In September 1996 Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case Western Reserve University cohosted Hard Travelin': The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie, a 10-day conference of panel sessions, lectures, and concerts. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a Museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Ohio, United States Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland Ohio, United States, with some residence halls on the south end of campus The conference became the first in what would become the museum's annual American Music Masters Series conference. ^[72] Highlights included Arlo Guthrie's keynote address, a Saturday night musical jamboree at Cleveland's Odeon Theater, and a Sunday night concert at Severance Hall, the home of the Cleveland Orchestra. A keynote in Literature, Music or Public speaking is the principal underlying theme ^[73] Musicians performing over the course of the conference included Arlo Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, The Indigo Girls, Ellis Paul, Jimmy LaFave, Ani DiFranco, and others. Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957 in Essex, England) better known as Billy Bragg, is an English musician who Indigo Girls are an American Folk rock duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Ellis Paul (born January 14 1965 is an American Singer-songwriter and folk musician Jimmy LaFave (born July 12 1955 is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician born in Wills Point Texas, a small farming community located Ani DiFranco (ˈɑːniː (born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23 1970 is a Grammy Award winning Singer, Guitarist, and Songwriter ^[74] In 1999, Wesleyan University Press published a collection of essays from the conference^[75] and DiFranco's record label, Righteous Babe, released a compilation of the Severance Hall concert, 'Til We Outnumber 'Em, in 2000. Wesleyan University Press, founded (in present form in 1959 is a University press that is part of Wesleyan University (Connecticut Righteous Babe Records is an American Independent record label. ^[76]

From 1999 to 2002 the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service presented the traveling exhibit, "This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie". In collaboration with Nora Guthrie, the Smithsonian exhibition draws from rarely seen objects, illustrations, film footage, and recorded performances to reveal a complex man who was at once poet, musician, protester, idealist, itinerant hobo, and folk legend. ^[77]

In 2003 Jimmy LaFave produced a Woody Guthrie tribute show called Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway. Jimmy LaFave (born July 12 1955 is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician born in Wills Point Texas, a small farming community located The ensemble show toured around the country and included a rotating cast of singer-songwriters individually performing Guthrie's songs. Interspersed between songs were Guthrie's philosophical writings read by a narrator. In addition to LaFave, members of the rotating cast included Ellis Paul, Slaid Cleaves, Eliza Gilkyson, Joel Rafael, husband-wife duo Sarah Lee Guthrie (Woody Guthrie's granddaughter) and Johnny Irion, Michael Fracasso, and The Burns Sisters. Sarah Lee Guthrie (born in Massachusetts on 17 February, 1979) and Johnny Irion (born in Columbia South Carolina Sarah Lee Guthrie (born in Massachusetts on 17 February, 1979) and Johnny Irion (born in Columbia South Carolina Michael Fracasso is a Singer-songwriter based in Austin Texas. Folk pop and rock are given a Celtic slant by Ithaca New York-based vocalists the Burns Sisters. Oklahoma songwriter Bob Childers, sometimes called "the Dylan of the Dust", served as narrator. ^[78][79] When word spread about the tour, performers began contacting LaFave, whose only prerequisite was to have an inspirational connection to Guthrie. Each artist chose the Guthrie songs that he or she would perform as part of the tribute. LaFave said, "It works because all the performers are Guthrie enthusiasts in some form". ^[80] The inaugural performance of the Ribbon of Highway tour took place on February 5, 2003 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Ryman Auditorium is a 2362-seat live performance venue located at 116 Fifth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee, U The abbreviated show was a featured segment of "Nashville Sings Woody", yet another tribute concert to commemorate the music of Woody Guthrie held during the Folk Alliance Conference. The cast of "Nashville Sings Woody", a benefit for the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives, also included Arlo Guthrie, Marty Stuart, Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Janis Ian, and others. Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10 1947 is an American folk singer John Marty Stuart (b September 30 1958, Philadelphia Mississippi) is an American country music singer known for both his traditional Nanci Caroline Griffith, (born July 6, 1953 in Seguin Texas) is an American Singer, Guitarist and Songwriter Guy Clark (born 6 November 1941) is a Songwriter and Country musician Biography Clark was born in Monahans Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz, August 1, 1931) is an American folk performer Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink, April 7 1951 is a Grammy Award -winning American Songwriter, Singer, multi-instrumental Musician ^[81]

Woody and Marjorie Guthrie were honored at a musical celebration featuring Billy Bragg and the band Brad on October 17, 2007 at Webster Hall in New York City. Brad is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1992 Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Steve Earle also performed. The event was hosted by actor/activist Tim Robbins to benefit the Huntington¹s Disease Society of America to commemorate the organization's 40th Anniversary. Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an Academy Award -winning American Actor, Screenwriter, director ^[82]

Posthumous honors

Although Guthrie's catalogue never brought him many awards while he was alive, in 1988 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (the same year his protégé Bob Dylan was inducted),^[83] and in 2000 he was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by the Recording Academy to "performers who during their lifetimes have made creative contributions of outstanding ^[84]

In 1987 "Roll On Columbia" was chosen as the official Washington State Folk Song,^[85] and in 2001 Guthrie's "Oklahoma Hills" was chosen to be the official state folk song of Oklahoma. ^[13]

On September 26, 1992, The Peace Abbey, a multi-faith retreat center located in Sherborn, Massachusetts, awarded Guthrie their Courage of Conscience Award for his social activism and artistry in song which conveyed the plight of the common person. ^[86]

On June 26, 1998, as part of its Legends of American Music series, the United States Postal Service issued 45 million 32-cent stamps honoring folk musicians Huddie Ledbetter, Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Josh White. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The four musicians were represented on sheets of 20 stamps. ^[87]

On April 27, 2007, Guthrie was one of four Okemah natives inducted into Okemah's Hall of Fame during the town's Pioneer Day weekend of festivities. Events 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ^[88]

On February 10, 2008, The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949, a rare live recording released in cooperation with the Woody Guthrie Foundation, was the recipient of a Grammy Award in the category Best Historical Album. The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The Grammy Award for Best Historical Album has been presented since 1979 ^[89][90]

Selected discography

Main article: Woody Guthrie discography

Many Guthrie tracks have been repeatedly repackaged and reordered. The discography of Woody Guthrie is somewhat difficult to construct Items here are listed in order of the most recent published date, not original recording date. ^[91]

Year	Title	Record Label
1940	Dust Bowl Ballads[92]	Smithsonian Folkways
1972	Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie[93]	Vanguard
1987	Columbia River Collection[94]	Rounder Records
1988	Folkways: The Original Vision (Woody and Leadbelly)[95]	Smithsonian Folkways
1988	Library of Congress Recordings[96]	Rounder Records
1989	Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs[97]	Smithsonian Folkways
1990	Struggle[98]	Smithsonian Folkways
1991	Cowboy Songs on Folkways[99]	Smithsonian Folkways
1991	Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child[100]	Smithsonian Folkways
1992	Nursery Days[101]	Smithsonian Folkways
1994	Long Ways to Travel: The Unreleased Folkways Masters, 1944–1949[102]	Smithsonian Folkways
1996	Almanac Singers	UNI/MCA
1996	Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti[103]	Smithsonian Folkways
1997	This Land Is Your Land, The Asch Recordings, Vol. Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by Woody Guthrie, recorded for Victor Records during Guthrie's time in New York City in 1940 Folkways Records is a Record label that documents folk and world music Vanguard Records is a Record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge Massachusetts but now based in Burlington, is an Independent record label founded in 1970 by Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child is a collection of Children's music by Folk singer Woody Guthrie. 1[104]	Smithsonian Folkways
1997	Muleskinner Blues, The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2[105]	Smithsonian Folkways
1998	Hard Travelin', The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3[106]	Smithsonian Folkways
1999	Buffalo Skinners, The Asch Recordings, Vol. 4[107]	Smithsonian Folkways
2007	The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie In Performance 1949[108]	Woody Guthrie Publications

See also

• List of songs by Woody Guthrie
• List of albums by Woody Guthrie

Further reading/listening

• Down Home Radio Show. LeadBelly & Woody Guthrie live on WNYC Radio, Dec. 1940. Audio re-broadcast of a 1940 radio show. Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• Earle, Steve. Woody Guthrie. The Nation, July 21, 2003. Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• Electronic Frontier Foundation. Scanned images of some of Woody Guthrie's original works.Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• Jackson, Mark Allen. Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie. University Press of Mississippi, January, 2007. Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• La Chapelle, Peter. Is Country Music Inherently Conservative? History News Network. Nov. 12, 2007. Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• La Chapelle, Peter. Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California. University of California Press, 2007. Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• Library of Congress. Timeline of Woody Guthrie (1912–1967). Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• Library of Congress. Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940–1950. Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• Marroquin, Danny. Walking the Long Road. PopMatters. com. Aug. 4, 2006. Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• Public Broadcasting Service. Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home. Documentary from PBS' American Masters series, July 2006. American Masters is a PBS Television show which produces biographies on what it considers are the best Artists Actors and Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• University of Oregon. Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Power Administration. Video documentary. Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• University of Virginia. Guthrie singing "This Land Is Your Land". MP3 recording. Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• Symphony Silicon Valley Concert Recordings. David Amram's Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie Recorded September 30, 2007. Events 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Audio recording. Retrieved on January 11, 2008. Events 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
• WoodyGuthrie. de. Woody Guthrie Related Audio. Miscellaneous Real Audio files featuring Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Alan Lomax and others. Retrieved on January 29, 2008. Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

References

Citations

Printed Sources

• Cray, Ed (2004). Events 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Ramblin Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie. W. W. Norton & Company. W W Norton & Company is an American book publishing company that has remained independent since its founding ISBN 0393327361.  
• Longhi, Jim (1997). "Woody, Cisco and Me". Random House. Random House Inc is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher ISBN 0252022769.  
• Klein, Joe (1980). Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is a longtime Washington D "Woody Guthrie: A Life". Random House. Random House Inc is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher ISBN 0-385-33385-4.  
• Santelli, Robert (1999). "Hard Travelin: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie". Wesleyan University Press. Wesleyan University Press, founded (in present form in 1959 is a University press that is part of Wesleyan University (Connecticut ISBN 0819563919.  

External links

• Video Documentary of Woody Guthrie's Time at Greystone Asylum in New Jersey
• The Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives
• The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival
• Songfacts interview with Anna Canoni (Guthrie's granddaughter)

Persondata
NAME	Guthrie, Woody
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Guthrie, Woodrow Wilson
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Okemah, Oklahoma, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH	October 3, 1967
PLACE OF DEATH	New York City, New York, U.S.

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