Woody Guthrie News

As the folk revival rages on in the indie music scene, many bands continue to look backward, aping the sound and look of Dust Bowl Okies and all things Woody Guthrie.

We've been celebrating the life and legacy of Woody Guthrie for decades now, and rightly so.

Bragg, one of the world's finest contemporary folksingers, appropriately sang "Handyman Blues" as his first tune - and was quickly met with lot of hammering on our rooftop by some real handymen as they put the finishing touches on NPR's new home.

An anti-fracking demonstration attracted more than 2,000 activists to the eastern side of the Capitol at midday Monday.

In October 2012, a diverse group of musicians gathered to honor him with a special concert, Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center , which paid tribute to his unique artistry.

On Saturday, June 29th at The Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts - Venetian Theater, The Del McCoury Band will headline Caramoor's American Roots Music Festival - a daylong celebration of folk, string band, country, blues, gospel, and bluegrass music.

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What may be most impressive about this lovely centennial tribute to Woody Guthrie is how well it captures the flexibility of his music.

It was planned to be the first manned mission of the Apollo lunar landing program to launch in February 1967.

Neil Young's 34th studio effort, "Americana," is a collection of American folk songs.

A veteran, constantly touring troubadour, Ellis Paul is one of the most respected artists in the folk genre.

Outside the Woody Guthrie Center, there's a large mural of Guthrie holding his guitar with the phrase, "This Machine Kills Fascists." Woody Guthrie with his parents Nora Belle and Charley, and brother George, at their home in Okemah, Okla., in 1926.

Woody Guthrie 's relationship with his home state has always been complicated. The singer-songwriter left Oklahoma and traveled the nation, composing some of the best-known songs of his time and ours.

His work is vast, awesome, majestic, and compelling. We haven't known an American poet who embodied such electricity since Woody Guthrie, and before him, Walt Whitman.

The woman in the wheelchair and headphones is watching pictures go by and hearing a narrator speak about a place and a moment long ago.

You know the drill. Mid-sized city revives a long-dormant warehouse district with art galleries, a baseball park, hipster bars, food trucks, even a Spaghetti Warehouse.

This song off of the album "Desire" is the best-ever song written about raiding tombs.

It's also going to be slightly shocking for those familiar with Penner's earlier records, marked as they were by well-crafted story songs that drew on the former Albertan's work with the homeless and dispossessed.

This musical caf is a one-man operation now, but the charm of the place hasn't been affected much by being downsized.