This easy-going song is one of Guthrie’s most well-known songs. Originally, the song was recorded by Leadbelly but Guthrie made it a hit. 3. “My Daddy (Flies A Ship In The Sky)” In “My ...

His songs and story will be shared by Chicago folk musician and historian Clark “Bucky” Halker in a free Sunday afternoon ... tracks of “The Ghost of Woody Guthrie.” Halker said Guthrie ...

Editor’s Note: Woody Guthrie would have turned 110 today. To honor the legendary songwriter, we look back on his little-known history as a writer of Hanukkah songs. For 20 years, I was a pop ...

If the Oklahoma songwriters' scene is a big family, the Woody Guthrie ... a slate of free educational panels, with experts and activists covering timely topics as well as Guthrie's life and ...

Woody Guthrie's songwriting was highly politically charged, and orbited themes of socialism and personal liberation in the face of the growth of capitalism and various forms of facism. Songs such ...

American folk icon Woody Guthrie died 50 years ago, at the age of 55. At this year’s Folk Awards, he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Woody Guthrie for Folk Awards Hall of Fame Singer ...

And every Hannukah I include holiday songs with lyrics by Woody Guthrie. That’s right. In 1945, Woody married Marjorie Greenblatt Mazia, the daughter of Yiddish-speaking parents, Isidore and ...

The restless spirit of Woody Guthrie has a way of rising up again every few years to fire up a new throng of activists, artists and adventurers with his songs of hope, freedom, change and compassion.