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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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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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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