and ever since then, those people have been my family." If the Oklahoma songwriters' scene is a big family, the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah is one of its biggest yearly reunions.

OKEMAH — Before he planted his storied musical career in the fertile Red Dirt soil of Stillwater, Mike McClure grew up rooted in the small city of Tecumseh. So, it's little surprise that the ...

Alan Lomax: How did you people live out there in Oklahoma, did you live pretty well? Woody Guthrie: I don’t know, Alan. To start with, I was a little bit different from the class that John ...

Woody Guthrie had already built himself a career ... This lack of diagnosis led to Guthrie's mother being institutionalized ...

The final destination of our visit to Oklahoma was the Woody Guthrie Center, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary. It’s because of the location of this museum that the Bob Dylan Center ...

Seventy-five years ago, Woody Guthrie, a balladeer who aligned ... Alexander Hamilton and the jazz legend Louis Armstrong. Guthrie, an Oklahoma native probably best known for the song “This ...

Helen Jean Russell and Andy Teirstein,” “Woody Sez” had its world premiere in 2007 at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Its U.S. debut was in 2009 in Guthrie’s home state of Oklahoma.

Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit is at the Woody Guthrie Center through September 7. It covers the genre's impact and influence on music, dance, fashion, business, activism, and more.

Woody Guthrie Center Director Cady Shaw said, "Hip-hop is very nuanced, right, there are different sounds, there are different business aspects, the fashion has always been a huge part of hip-hop ...