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PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2000 5:38 pm
  

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New stuff here: http://www.woodyguthrie.com/
Be sure and click on Jim Dirden to see a collection of his photos. Great pics of Pete Seeger and Tao at the R&R Hall of Fame earlier this year.


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"The Woody Guthrie Legacy"
http://www.grammy.com/gateway/guthrie.html


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Woody Still Sez
Guthrie lives on in new crop of
inspired tribute recordings
http://www.sfgate.com/eguide/music/derk/


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Billy Bragg Woody related show in Canada postponed due to a bad back:
http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=263


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Album Review: "Billy Bragg and Wilco"
http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000630braggmag6.asp


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Two American Anthems, in Two American Voices
http://www10.nytimes.com/library/music/070200american-anthems.html


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 03, 2000 4:44 pm
  

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http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/

Today (July 3) at 4 PM on NPR's "All Things Considered":
(between 4:30 and 5:00 PM)

NPR's list of the top 100 American musical works of the 20th century
continues with the story of Woodie Guthrie's national anthem, This
Land is My Land. The NPR 100 -- and the day's news -- Monday on
NPR's All Things Considered.

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Woody Guthrie Portrait to be dedicated at Oklahoma State Capitol:

http://www.oksenate.gov/news/press_rele ... 40708.html


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:06 am
  

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more on the Woody Guthrie portrait:

This Land Is His Land: Guthrie Portrait To Hang In Statehouse

http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/3526719/detail.html


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:16 am
  

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from The Oklahoman newspaper:

"Woody Guthrie honored"

http://www.newsok.com/article/1279364/? ... =home/main


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:35 am
  

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http://ardmoreite.com/stories/071604/lo ... 0010.shtml

Balladeer Woody Guthrie's portrait hung at Capitol
By Ron Jenkins
Associated Press Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY-- Entertainer Arlo Guthrie and other family members led the singing at the Oklahoma State Capitol Thursday to celebrate the unveiling of a portrait of his father, legendary folk artist Woody Guthrie.

''This is totally cool,'' said Arlo of the honor for his father, who in the past was sometimes shunned in conservative Oklahoma because of the reputation he earned in the 1930s when his songs promoted unionism and reviled banks and other institutions.

One of the songs performed at the Capitol by Arlo, his children and other family members was a tribute to Pretty Boy Floyd, the 1930s outlaw considered sort of a Robin Hood by some downtrodden Oklahomans. It contained the lines:

''Now, as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six gun, some with a fountain pen. But as through your life you travel, and through your life you roam, you will never see an outlaw drive a family from their home.''

Arlo also led the singing of ''This Land Is Your Land,'' and ''Rueben James,'' a song about the sinking of the first American destroyer in World War II.

Woody was a merchant Marine in World War II, and later was on the federal payroll, writing songs during the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, including ''Roll On Columbia.''

On the fact that official recognition of his father in Oklahoma has been long in coming, Arlo said Woody read the Bible and recognized ''you know, that nobody's a prophet in their own home town.''

He said he never dreamed his father's image would be placed in the Capitol's fourth-floor rotunda, along side such other famous Oklahomans as Will Rogers and Jim Thorpe, also portrayed by Wilson.

Mary Jo Edgmon of Seminole, Woody's 81-year-old sister, helped unveil the painting. She said Guthrie loved Oklahoma and always said ''I would be mighty proud if you would just write Okie on my tombstone.''

Guthrie tramped out of Okemah, Okla., as a teenager and became famous as a Dust Bowl troubadour who wrote about the plight of migrant workers, including many who fled Oklahoma in hopes of a better life on the West Coast during The Great Depression.

Guthrie, who died of Huntington's Disease in New York in 1967, also wrote countless poems and essays and three autobiographical novels, including ''Bound for Glory,'' a movie that starred David Carradine.

Wilson donated his $20,000 fee to the local chapter of the Huntington's Disease Foundation of America, and the project was underwritten by The Oklahoma Gazette, an Oklahoma City weekly newspaper.

State Sen. Charles Ford asked Wilson to do another painting for the Capitol and said he was surprised, as a conservative Republican, to learn that he had chosen Guthrie as the subject.

Ford said Guthrie spoke for many who lived during terrible economic times and it was fitting that his portrait be placed at the Capitol ''as a part of Oklahoma history.''

Guy Logsdon, Oklahoma historian, said Guthrie was a poet philosopher whose status in American literature would continue to grow. Some literary critics are already calling him, ''The Walt Whitman of the 20th Century,'' Logsdon said.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:28 pm
  

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'This Machine Kills Fascists'

Getting a handle on Woody Guthrie

Tuesday, July 20, 2004 Posted: 8:47 AM EDT (1247 GMT)

Legendary folksinger Woody Guthrie wrote more than 1,000 songs, including "This Land Is Your Land" and "Pastures of Plenty."

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- More than a dozen writers have tried to chronicle the vagabond life of Woody Guthrie, but none brought him alive quite like Ed Cray, not even Guthrie himself.

Cray used a treasure trove of songs, stories, letters, drawings and notes that the folk balladeer compiled from his youth until the degenerative neurological disease Huntington's Chorea made it impossible for him to write or draw.

The University of Southern California professor was the first to seek out the collection five years ago, when the family decided to open it to scholars. Impressed by his previous books, including an award-winning biography of the late Chief Justice Earl Warren, Guthrie's daughter Nora agreed to give him unlimited access.

Other than some embarrassment at having her father's love affair with her mother explored in detail -- "No kid should know this much about their parents" -- Nora has had no regrets.

"We developed a kind of spirit of trust early on and it turned out to be a wonderful book."

Guthrie's own acclaimed work, "Bound for Glory," was published when he was only 31 and contained enough admitted tall tales that he preferred to call it an "autobiographical novel."

As Cray reflected recently on his just-published biography, "Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie," he said he came to realize that he had something else going for him that perhaps previous biographers didn't.

"I was part of what Arlo -- Woody's son -- calls that great folk music scare of the 1950s," quips Cray, a diminutive, whispy-haired man of 72.

Continued - http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/19/guthrie.book.ap/index.html


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:28 am
  

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Tribute to Guthrie planned
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/0930 ... hrie.shtml

Today - 7 p.m. at the Concert Hall Theater at Amarillo College. Admission is free, but donations are accepted.

Friday - 6 p.m. at the Stokes Barn, about 5 miles northeast of Pampa on Highway 60. Admission is $10 for the evening, including a cornbread, beans and hobo stew supper.


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:41 pm
  

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This article is about 2 weeks old but has some good background info:
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/st ... yID=306125
"Kosher Woody"


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:51 pm
  

Thanks for posting the link to that article, Janet. It was very insightful!! :) I can't beleive I've missed BOTH shws .. in Albany and Carneigie! :( I THOROUGHLY enjoyed the article!!


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