Woody Guthrie News

Pegged with the freak-folk tag the better part of the decade for his work with neo-psychedelic outfit Wooden Wands, James Jackson Toth has been taking steady strides in the last few years to separate himself ...

It was only just one more month until you were going to rock out to Sheryl Crow's brand of inoffensive sensible guitar pop, but now you have to wait just a little bit longer.

Back when my writings appeared only between the powder-blue covers of a book with a girl in a poodle skirt on the cover, a fellow named Bob Zimmerman appeared at my school.

Bach, Woody Guthrie , Led Zeppelin and the Chilean tonada "Yo vendo unos ojos negros" - ' with a Mexican accent.

He's been called "one of America's greatest voices" by Dave Marsh, one of America's greatest music chroniclers.

No Woody Guthrie, no Pete Seeger and no Dylan, Donovan or Byrds. No "This Land is Your Land," "If I Had a Hammer," "Turn, Turn, Turn," and no Dust Bowl Ballads .

Carol Abair seems to be bucking that trend. This Burlington-based songwriter would rather have other people sing her songs with the hope that a Willie Nelson or Bette Midler might hear the song and record it.

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival is under way in Okemah, the town where the folk singing legend grew up.

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival offers a vast array of free music and entertainment options.

It's not just "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Baseball and music have a longstanding relationship.

But then, sounding like a master picker or even a nasal-toned Woody Guthrie wasn't the point.

XM is launching the Uncle Sam Channel on Friday, a musical melting pot of songs all about America in celebration of Independence Day.

CONCORD, Calif. -- More than 2,000 guitar-players performing "This Land is Your Land" in a Bay Area park appear to have strummed their way into the record books.

It was reminiscent of the 1980s film "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," when thousands stood shoulder to shoulder and strummed guitars in unison for the good of humanity.

By Mike Ball There is something I get to do on the Fourth of July that is even more fun than all the Ballpark Franks that will be ritually sacrificed to charcoal flames in our nations parks and beaches and ...

Spaulding Memorial School presented its Second-Grade Spring Concert, in the SMS gymnasium.

If you're at all interested in American folk music, bluegrass, country, old time music, southern gospel or, let's face it, most of the music you'd come across these days, you might want to learn a thing or two ...

Woody Guthrie, the 20th century folk singer, will have his songs showcased in a special program featuring Tim Holt.

A New York man sold Bob Dylan memorabilia that never actually belonged to the famed rocker, two lawsuits allege.

Forty years into an iconic career that has produced dozens of wonderful songs and a host of admiring musical peers, Little Feat has united the two with a new release, "JOIN THE BAND," that features some of ...