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Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (/ˈɡʌθri/; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his music, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", has inspired several generations both politically and musically.[1][2][3] He wrote hundreds of political, folk, and children's songs, along with ballads and improvised works. His album of songs about the Dust Bowl period, Dust Bowl Ballads, is included on Mojo magazine's 100 Records That Changed The World.[4] Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress.[5] Songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Hunter, Harry Chapin, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Andy Irvine, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jerry Garcia, Jay Farrar, Bob Weir, Jeff Tweedy, Bob Childers, Sammy Walker, Tom Paxton, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Brian Fallon, and Sixto Rodríguez have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence. He frequently performed with the slogan "This machine kills fascists" displayed on his guitar.
Guthrie was brought up by middle-class parents in Okemah, Oklahoma,[6] until he was 14, when his mother was hospitalized as a consequence of Huntington's disease, a hereditary neurological disorder, and his father had to move to Pampa, Texas, to repay debts from unsuccessful real estate deals. During his early teens Guthrie learned folk and blues songs from his parents' friends. He married at 19, but with the advent of the dust storms that marked the Dust Bowl period, he left his wife and three children to join the thousands of Okies who were migrating to California looking for work. He worked at Los Angeles radio station KFVD, achieving some fame from playing hillbilly music; made friends with Will Geer and John Steinbeck; and wrote a column for the Communist newspaper People's World from May 1939 to January 1940. Throughout his life Guthrie was associated with United States Communist groups, although he was seemingly not a member of any.[7] With the outbreak of World War II and the non-aggression pact the Soviet Union had signed with Germany in 1939, the owners of KFVD radio were not comfortable with Guthrie's Communist sympathies; he left the station, ending up in New York where he wrote and recorded his 1940 album Dust Bowl Ballads, based on his Dust Bowl experiences, and which earned him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour".[8] In February 1940 he wrote his most famous song, "This Land Is Your Land", as a response to what he felt was an overplaying of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on the radio.[citation needed]
Guthrie was married three times and fathered eight children, including musician Arlo Guthrie. Guthrie died from complications of Huntington's disease. During his later years, in spite of his illness, Guthrie served as a figurehead in the folk movement, providing inspiration to a generation of new folk musicians, including mentoring Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Bob Dylan.
Guthrie was brought up by middle-class parents in Okemah, Oklahoma,[6] until he was 14, when his mother was hospitalized as a consequence of Huntington's disease, a hereditary neurological disorder, and his father had to move to Pampa, Texas, to repay debts from unsuccessful real estate deals. During his early teens Guthrie learned folk and blues songs from his parents' friends. He married at 19, but with the advent of the dust storms that marked the Dust Bowl period, he left his wife and three children to join the thousands of Okies who were migrating to California looking for work. He worked at Los Angeles radio station KFVD, achieving some fame from playing hillbilly music; made friends with Will Geer and John Steinbeck; and wrote a column for the Communist newspaper People's World from May 1939 to January 1940. Throughout his life Guthrie was associated with United States Communist groups, although he was seemingly not a member of any.[7] With the outbreak of World War II and the non-aggression pact the Soviet Union had signed with Germany in 1939, the owners of KFVD radio were not comfortable with Guthrie's Communist sympathies; he left the station, ending up in New York where he wrote and recorded his 1940 album Dust Bowl Ballads, based on his Dust Bowl experiences, and which earned him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour".[8] In February 1940 he wrote his most famous song, "This Land Is Your Land", as a response to what he felt was an overplaying of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on the radio.[citation needed]
Guthrie was married three times and fathered eight children, including musician Arlo Guthrie. Guthrie died from complications of Huntington's disease. During his later years, in spite of his illness, Guthrie served as a figurehead in the folk movement, providing inspiration to a generation of new folk musicians, including mentoring Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Bob Dylan.
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Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie - 1940-12-12 WNYC Radio - Folk Songs of America New York, NY
01. Announcer Intro 02. You Can't Lose Me, Cholly (Leadbelly) 03. Announcer 04. Frankie and Albert (Leadbelly) 05. John Hardy (Woody Guthrie) 06. Jesse James...
Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that July 15 is the anniversary of the birth of American singer-songwriter Woodrow Wilson Guthrie who is one of the most significant figures in American folk music and the father of folk singer Arlo Guthrie.
Background from imdb.com/name/nm0349313/bio
"Woody Guthrie Biography
Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (13) | Personal Quotes (4)
Overview (4)
Born on July 14, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA with the name Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Died on October 4, 1967 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA (Huntington's disease)
Height 5' 7" (1.7 m)
Mini Bio (1)
Charley and Nora Guthrie named their son after the Democrat elected president that year. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie knew hard times as a youngster (his house burned down, his sister Clara burned to death, his father's small-town business and political careers never went anywhere, his mother suffered from undiagnosed Huntington's Disease and was declared insane), but he enjoyed performing (dancing, playing harmonica, writing songs) and learning (he read voraciously in the public library). In 1933 he married Mary Jennings, five years his junior, with whom he would have three children. In 1935 he joined the Oakies and Arkies driven to California by the Dust Bowl. His songs went from describing the tragedy of the migrants to urging their unionization. Though he wrote a column for the Weekly People, he never joined the Communist Party. When Will Geer got a part in the play "Tobacco Road" he invited Woody to join him in New York where he met Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Leadbelly, Cisco Houston. He was commissioned to write songs for a never-completed documentary on Washington State's Grand Coulee Dam, and it was in the Pacific Northwest that his family left him. Back in New York in 1940, Woody joined Pete Seeger's Alamanc Singers and married Martha Graham dancer Marjorie Mazia. His autobiography, Bound for Glory, was published in 1943. He served in the Merchant Marine in World War II, and three ships were torpedoed from under him. In 1947 his and Marjorie's daughter, Cathy, was burned to death in an apartment fire. They had three more children: Arlo, Joady and Nora. In 1953 he married for a third time, to Anneke Van Kirk. They had a child, Lorinna Lynn Guthrie. When Anneke and Guthrie divorced, their daughter was adopted by a couple they knew, and did not have any further contact with Guthrie. Lorinna died prematurely (at age 19) in 1973, in a car accident in California.
In the 1950s he experienced bouts of irrational behavior and was often unable to play his guitar; his condition was ultimately diagnosed as Huntington's Disease. The rest of that decade and into the 1960s a new generation, notably including Bob Dylan, began to discover and play his music, adapting some of it to the new Civil Rights movement.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan < [login to see] .edu>
Spouse (3)
3rd wife Anneke Van Kirk (2 December 1953 - 1956) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
2nd wife Marjorie Greenblatt Mazia (13 November 1945 - 1953) ( divorced) ( 4 children)
1st wife Mary Guthrie Boyle (28 October 1933 - 1940) ( divorced) ( 3 children)
Trade Mark (2)
Had "This machine Kills fascists" inscribed on his guitar
Uplifting songs about working-class people
Trivia (13)
1. Father of Arlo Guthrie
2. He and Marjorie had four children. Cathy (died aged 4 in a fire) Arlo Guthrie, Joady (named for Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and Nora.
3. His daughter, Nora, recently invited English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg to look through the family archives, especially all the thousands of song lyrics that Woody had left in his notebooks. Billy, together with American country band Wilco, put them to music and recorded them for the album Mermaid Avenue.
4. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered off Coney Island. The family scattered the ashes of Marjorie in the same place when she died.
5. Was featured in 1998 on a 32-cent U.S. postage stamp in the Legends of Folk Singers stamp series.
6. Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (under the category Early Influences) in 1988.
7. February 22, 1954: daughter: Lorinna Lynn Guthrie, with Van Kirk.
8. Was Bob Dylan's idol and mentor. Dylan visited him many times in the hospital in the last years of his life, and modeled his own folk-writing style after Guthrie's. The first Dylan-written song ever released was a tribute to his hero, 'Song to Woody', which appeared on his self-titled 1962 debut album.
9. His guitar was inscribed with the words, "This machine kills fascists."
10. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
11. Although he was named after Pres. Woodrow Wilson, his political views were the polar opposite of Wilson's. Wilson was anti-labor and anti-communist, while Guthrie was ardently pro-labor and favored ideas similar to what the Communist Party supported (although the Communist Party refused to admit him due to his refusal to abandon his religious faith).
12. His revue, "The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie" at the Northlight Theater in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2013 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Revue Production.
13. For two years during the 1950s, the landlord of his Beach Haven apartment complex in Brooklyn was Fred Trump, father of future US President Donald J. Trump.
Personal Quotes (4)
1. Working people have always known that songs are a good way to say what you got to say about work, wages, school, cats, love, marriage, keeping house, or doctor bills. If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter. If the going gets tough, the songs get tougher.
2. [When asked why he'd scrawled "This Machine Kills Fascists" across the front of his guitar] Well, you see this guitar makes me feel like beatin' the Fascists, and then that makes me sing how much I hate 'em. When I sing for a bunch of folks, folks workin', for soliders, sailors, seamen, that sort of makes all of us whip it up a little. Then we all get to feelin' a little more like beatin' 'em, and 'course if a fascist then just sort of happens to get in our way, he just naturally comes out loser. That's all.
3. I hate a song that makes you think that you're not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are either too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or songs that poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or your hard traveling. I am out to fight those kinds of songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter how hard it's run you down and rolled over you, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.
4. [from a scribbled lyric discovered in a notebook in his archives] I am the works, the whole works. The saint, the sinner, the drinker, the thinker."
Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie - 1940-12-12 WNYC Radio - Folk Songs of America New York, NY
This is an 25-minute episode of "Folk Songs of America", a program produced by noted folklorist Henrietta Yurchenco which featured Leadbelly. In this episode, Woody Guthrie is his guest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNj1WLpWDa8
01. Announcer Intro
02. You Can't Lose Me, Cholly (Leadbelly)
03. Announcer
04. Frankie and Albert (Leadbelly)
05. John Hardy (Woody Guthrie)
06. Jesse James (Woody Guthrie)
07. The Ballad of Tom Joad (Woody Guthrie)
08. Boll Weevil (Leadbelly)
09. Announcer Outro
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SSG John Ross SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright Cpl Gabriel F.
Background from imdb.com/name/nm0349313/bio
"Woody Guthrie Biography
Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (13) | Personal Quotes (4)
Overview (4)
Born on July 14, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA with the name Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Died on October 4, 1967 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA (Huntington's disease)
Height 5' 7" (1.7 m)
Mini Bio (1)
Charley and Nora Guthrie named their son after the Democrat elected president that year. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie knew hard times as a youngster (his house burned down, his sister Clara burned to death, his father's small-town business and political careers never went anywhere, his mother suffered from undiagnosed Huntington's Disease and was declared insane), but he enjoyed performing (dancing, playing harmonica, writing songs) and learning (he read voraciously in the public library). In 1933 he married Mary Jennings, five years his junior, with whom he would have three children. In 1935 he joined the Oakies and Arkies driven to California by the Dust Bowl. His songs went from describing the tragedy of the migrants to urging their unionization. Though he wrote a column for the Weekly People, he never joined the Communist Party. When Will Geer got a part in the play "Tobacco Road" he invited Woody to join him in New York where he met Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Leadbelly, Cisco Houston. He was commissioned to write songs for a never-completed documentary on Washington State's Grand Coulee Dam, and it was in the Pacific Northwest that his family left him. Back in New York in 1940, Woody joined Pete Seeger's Alamanc Singers and married Martha Graham dancer Marjorie Mazia. His autobiography, Bound for Glory, was published in 1943. He served in the Merchant Marine in World War II, and three ships were torpedoed from under him. In 1947 his and Marjorie's daughter, Cathy, was burned to death in an apartment fire. They had three more children: Arlo, Joady and Nora. In 1953 he married for a third time, to Anneke Van Kirk. They had a child, Lorinna Lynn Guthrie. When Anneke and Guthrie divorced, their daughter was adopted by a couple they knew, and did not have any further contact with Guthrie. Lorinna died prematurely (at age 19) in 1973, in a car accident in California.
In the 1950s he experienced bouts of irrational behavior and was often unable to play his guitar; his condition was ultimately diagnosed as Huntington's Disease. The rest of that decade and into the 1960s a new generation, notably including Bob Dylan, began to discover and play his music, adapting some of it to the new Civil Rights movement.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan < [login to see] .edu>
Spouse (3)
3rd wife Anneke Van Kirk (2 December 1953 - 1956) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
2nd wife Marjorie Greenblatt Mazia (13 November 1945 - 1953) ( divorced) ( 4 children)
1st wife Mary Guthrie Boyle (28 October 1933 - 1940) ( divorced) ( 3 children)
Trade Mark (2)
Had "This machine Kills fascists" inscribed on his guitar
Uplifting songs about working-class people
Trivia (13)
1. Father of Arlo Guthrie
2. He and Marjorie had four children. Cathy (died aged 4 in a fire) Arlo Guthrie, Joady (named for Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and Nora.
3. His daughter, Nora, recently invited English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg to look through the family archives, especially all the thousands of song lyrics that Woody had left in his notebooks. Billy, together with American country band Wilco, put them to music and recorded them for the album Mermaid Avenue.
4. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered off Coney Island. The family scattered the ashes of Marjorie in the same place when she died.
5. Was featured in 1998 on a 32-cent U.S. postage stamp in the Legends of Folk Singers stamp series.
6. Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (under the category Early Influences) in 1988.
7. February 22, 1954: daughter: Lorinna Lynn Guthrie, with Van Kirk.
8. Was Bob Dylan's idol and mentor. Dylan visited him many times in the hospital in the last years of his life, and modeled his own folk-writing style after Guthrie's. The first Dylan-written song ever released was a tribute to his hero, 'Song to Woody', which appeared on his self-titled 1962 debut album.
9. His guitar was inscribed with the words, "This machine kills fascists."
10. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
11. Although he was named after Pres. Woodrow Wilson, his political views were the polar opposite of Wilson's. Wilson was anti-labor and anti-communist, while Guthrie was ardently pro-labor and favored ideas similar to what the Communist Party supported (although the Communist Party refused to admit him due to his refusal to abandon his religious faith).
12. His revue, "The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie" at the Northlight Theater in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2013 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Revue Production.
13. For two years during the 1950s, the landlord of his Beach Haven apartment complex in Brooklyn was Fred Trump, father of future US President Donald J. Trump.
Personal Quotes (4)
1. Working people have always known that songs are a good way to say what you got to say about work, wages, school, cats, love, marriage, keeping house, or doctor bills. If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter. If the going gets tough, the songs get tougher.
2. [When asked why he'd scrawled "This Machine Kills Fascists" across the front of his guitar] Well, you see this guitar makes me feel like beatin' the Fascists, and then that makes me sing how much I hate 'em. When I sing for a bunch of folks, folks workin', for soliders, sailors, seamen, that sort of makes all of us whip it up a little. Then we all get to feelin' a little more like beatin' 'em, and 'course if a fascist then just sort of happens to get in our way, he just naturally comes out loser. That's all.
3. I hate a song that makes you think that you're not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are either too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or songs that poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or your hard traveling. I am out to fight those kinds of songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter how hard it's run you down and rolled over you, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.
4. [from a scribbled lyric discovered in a notebook in his archives] I am the works, the whole works. The saint, the sinner, the drinker, the thinker."
Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie - 1940-12-12 WNYC Radio - Folk Songs of America New York, NY
This is an 25-minute episode of "Folk Songs of America", a program produced by noted folklorist Henrietta Yurchenco which featured Leadbelly. In this episode, Woody Guthrie is his guest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNj1WLpWDa8
01. Announcer Intro
02. You Can't Lose Me, Cholly (Leadbelly)
03. Announcer
04. Frankie and Albert (Leadbelly)
05. John Hardy (Woody Guthrie)
06. Jesse James (Woody Guthrie)
07. The Ballad of Tom Joad (Woody Guthrie)
08. Boll Weevil (Leadbelly)
09. Announcer Outro
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SSG John Ross SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SrA Christopher Wright Cpl Gabriel F.
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I remember reading about him in 4th grade. Then in ‘64 they divided the library Into age groups. The book about Arlo was in the 6th grade section.. the librarian was a substitute(A student studying to be a librarian)... The book was part of a display.. I thought it areally good read at that time.
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