Woody Guthrie
Born July 14, 1912
Okemah, Oklahoma
Died October 3, 1967
Queens, New York
Songwriter, folksinger, social activist
Woody Guthrie. Archive Photos. Reproduced by permission.
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Woody Guthrie
Born July 14, 1912
Okemah, Oklahoma
Died October 3, 1967
New York, New York
Folk singer whose songs raised consciousness about the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s
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Guthrie, Woody (1912-1967)
Folk singer, composer, writer and homegrown radical, Woody Guthrie became the self-appointed folk spokesman for the Dust Bowl migrants and agricultural workers during the Gr...
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Writer and performer of folk songs, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-1967) composed "This Land Is Your Land," an unofficial national anthem.Guthrie was born July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma. He had litt...
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Woody Guthrie biographer Joe Klein was told by Alan Lomax, the folklore archivist who collected recordings of Guthrie for the Library of Congress, that he would never really know Guthrie until he unde...
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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2007. There are 89 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 3, 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanks...
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When London called, Joe Strummer made it his job to listen. As the lead singer of the Clash, Strummer, who died in 2002 at the age of 50, turned the city’s breathless cries into a siren song ...
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Pete Seeger has the Joe Stalin blues.Decades after drifting away from the Communist Party, the 88-year-old banjo-picker has written a song about the Soviet leader that's as scathing as any tune in ...
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Hank Williams Jr. and bluegrass duo Flatt & Scruggs will be among this year's five new inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the hall announced Monday.The two acts, along with ...
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Bob Dylan is not at the Toronto International Film Festival. But six shades of Dylan are present with "I'm Not There," a swirling, shifting ramble through the many lives of one of the most enigmati...
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More than 80 years after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston, they still inspire impassioned debate about whether they were guilty of the murders of two men during a 1920 p...
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It seems no iconic figure is beyond Cate Blanchett, who shot to stardom as Queen Elizabeth I, won an Academy Award as Katharine Hepburn and enchanted audiences as the mythic elf Galadriel in "The L...
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Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day. He&#...
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Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day. He&...
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On the morning of Saturday, June 3, a line of wee Brooklynites and their guardians was lurching forward into the United Central Methodist Church of Fort Greene. They had come to worship Dan Zanes,...
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Guthrie, Woody
Guthrie, Woody
Guthrie, Woody (1912-1967)
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
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