Here are just a few great versions. In the 1990s Billy Bragg and the band Wilco were asked by Guthrie’s daughter Nora to write music using Woody’s unused lyrics. The result was three volumes ...
Car Wash' hit No. 1; Aerosmith reached the top ten on the Singles Chart with 'Walk This Way'; Arctic Monkeys went No. 1 on ...
Folk music icon Woody Guthrie, one of the most important figures in the history of American music, was born July 14, 1912, 100 years ago today. Armed with a guitar bearing the phrase, &quot ...
Woody Guthrie sang about the plight of migrant workers decades ago – Trump’s new war on immigrants is as short-sighted as it ...
You may have heard about it in a song. The bodies in that DC-3 were ... that angered a man who had once been a migrant worker, Woody Guthrie. Guthrie was living in New York at the time, and ...
Today, the ambient country group is already back with a cover of Woody Guthrie’s classic “This Land Is Your Land” as well as tour dates with Immersion. “Music more than almost anything ...
Guthrie died from complications of Huntington’s disease in 1967. Despite his decline, he had a major impact on American popular music in the second half of the 20th century and the rise of the ...