The great American troubadour Woody Guthrie, who wrote our “second national anthem,” “This Land Is Your Land,” would have turned 100 this Saturday, had Huntington’s chorea not claimed him in 1967, ...

A new album by Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), perhaps the most influential US folk artist, was released late last summer. Woody ...

For the first time ever, you will be able to hear Woody Guthrie’s home recordings. A two-volume collection, called ‘Woody At Home — Volumes 1 & 2’, is set to be released. The collection contains 22 ...

The recordings would be Guthrie’s last, as he spent the last years of his life hospitalized due to Huntington’s disease Decades after his death, new Woody Guthrie music is coming. The Woody Guthrie ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

Folk is one of the oldest genres of music in the modern era, and in the last 70 years, its sound has evolved quite a bit, from Pete Seeger and Harry Belafonte in the '50s and '60s, Nick Drake's Pink ...

"Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah" Jewish Music "Wonder Wheel" Jewish Music SUSAN MCKEOWN "Blackthorn: Irish Love Songs" World Village THE KLEZMATICS HAVE EMERGED as the most interesting of the ...

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.

Death runs in the family.