What once stood as a two-story, six-room house that belonged to Woody Guthrie is now just a mass of overgrown weeds and a sandstone foundation. However, this abandoned lot will not remain vacant for much longer. On Sunday, October 13, … Continue reading →
VARIOUS Woody Guthrie @ 100! Live At the Kennedy Center Legacy Recordings www.legacyrecordings.com Regardless of Eleanor Roosevelt’s attention to leftist music, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-67) might have been surprised to find Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center … Continue reading →
Throughout the month of June, PBS stations around the country will be airing Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center. The concert was the culmination of the Woody Guthrie Foundation’s year-long centennial celebration that traveled from “California to … Continue reading →
In our centennial celebration of Woody Guthrie’s murder ballads, we’ve seen that murder and death in his songs are tools to illustrate his fundamental concept of justice. Sometimes it’s personal, as with “The Philadelphia Lawyer” and “East Texas Red“. More … Continue reading →
So far in our week-long centennial celebration of Woody Guthrie and his murder ballads, we’ve listened to the classic and amusing “Philadelphia Lawyer” and two hard hitting ballads, “Ludlow Massacre” and “1913 Massacre”, which both tell different stories of the … Continue reading →
We started our centennial celebration week with Woody Guthrie by listening to his “Philadelphia Lawyer”, a classic Country and Western song that he set to the tune of an older murder ballad. But, despite (or more accurately because of) the … Continue reading →
Woody Guthrie would have been one hundred years old this Saturday, July 14, 2012. Certainly there will be a great deal of writing, speaking, and (as no doubt Woody would have wanted it) singing to celebrate his centennial. That’s as … Continue reading →
Woody Guthrie Working Class Hero Less graphically than “On a Hill Lone and Gray,” Woody Guthrie provides his own rendering of the Jesus story. In this one, the multitude is still implicated, but in a slightly different way; and, the … Continue reading →
In the early 1940’s, Herbert Harris, owner of NYC store called Stinson Trading Company, partnered with an entrepenuer named Moe Asch to create a record label that was known as Asch Stinson Company. In their few years of existence, they … Continue reading →
This Sunday, April 12, WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS (3 to 6pm ET on 89.1FM – www.wfdu.fm for streaming audio) will feature two special segments in celebration of Woody Guthrie.Folk radio icon and Philadelphia Folk Festival emcee Gene Shay will offer a report … Continue reading →
