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Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was an American singer, songwriter, and composer widely considered one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism and has inspired many generations politically and musically with songs such as "This Land Is Your Land" and "Tear the Fascists Down".
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entertainment · American singer-songwriter (1912–1967) · guitarist · singer-songwriter · street artist · musicologist · songwriter · autobiographer · mandolinist · composer · violinist · singer · also Woody Guthrie, Woodrow W. (Woody) Guthrie, Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie, Dust Bowl Troubadour, Guthrie
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2026· 27 entries
“s songs, along with ballads and improvised works. Dust Bowl Ballads, Guthrie”
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jewishjournal.org: The Woody Guthrie story you’ve probably never heard is deeply Jewish
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The Georgetowner: Last Chance: ‘Woody Guthrie’s American Song’ at The Wharf
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BroadwayWorld: WOODY SEZ: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF WOODY GUTHRIE regresará a Londres
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HillRag: Theater Alliance’s Woody Guthrie’s American Song Is A Call For Courage and Hope
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BroadwayWorld: WOODY SEZ: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF WOODY GUTHRIE to Return to London
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Lisa in the theatre: Review: Woody Sez - The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie | Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026
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The Times: Why I’ve spent 20 years pretending to be Woody Guthrie
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HillRag: “Woody Guthrie’s American Song” at The Wharf Waterfront Park
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Metro Weekly: Review: ‘Woody Guthrie’s American Song’ Strikes a Timely Chord
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TulsaPeople: Bette Midler is the 2026 recipient of the Woody Guthrie Prize
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NewsChannel 10: Woody Guthrie Folk Music Center to host fundraiser in Pampa Saturday
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Hotpress: Andy Irvine to release album reimagining the songs of Woody Guthrie
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Arlo Guthrie | Biography, Alice’s Restaurant, Woody Guthrie, & Facts
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Yardbarker: Bette Midler to Receive 2026 Woody Guthrie Prize at Tulsa Ceremony in October
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Plásticos y Decibelios: BETTE MIDLER RECIBIRÁ EL PRESTIGIOSO PREMIO WOODY GUTHRIE
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Grateful Web: Bette Midler Named Recipient of the 2026 Woody Guthrie Prize
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City Cast DC: 'Woody Guthrie’s American Song' Shines Even in the August Heat
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Tulsa World: Bette Midler named Woody Guthrie Prize recipient for 2026
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Washington City Paper: At the Wharf, Woody Guthrie’s American Song Asks “Is My Land Your Land?”
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Hits Daily Double: A Divine Honor: Bette Midler To Receive 2026 Woody Guthrie Prize
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AOL: Bette Midler to be honored with the 2026 Woody Guthrie Prize
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The Journal Record: Documentary explores Woody Guthrie’s Jewish influences at Tulsa premiere
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Released album “Ballads Of A Hard Travelling Singer”.
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2025· 2 entries
Released album “Woody At Home – Vol 1 + 2”.
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Folk musician and professor Ellen Stekert released the archival album Camera Three, recorded in 1959 for the CBS news show of the same name, which included a version of the previously unknown and undocumented Guthrie son
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2024· 1 entry
Released album “Essential Classics, Vol. 668: Woody Guthrie”.
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2022· 1 entry
Dropkick Murphys released This Machine Still Kills Fascists
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2021· 1 entry
Home in This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dustbowl Ballads, a track-by-track remake of Dust Bowl Ballads was released featuring covers by Lee Ann Womack, Mark Lanegan, The Felice Brothers, and Waxahatchee among others
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “The Father Of American Folk (HD Remastered Edition, Doxy Collection)”.
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Americana Music Association President's Award (2016).
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Released album “The Best of Woody Guthrie”.
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “American Radical Patriot”.
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The archives were relocated from New York City to the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after being purchased by the Tulsa-based George Kaiser Foundation
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By Harper, under actor Johnny Depp's publishing imprint, Infinitum Nihil
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2012· 5 entries
Released album “Bound for Glory”.
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Smithsonian Folkways released Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, a 150-page large-format book with three CDs containing 57 tracks
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There was a tribute concert at the Brady Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Released album “100th Anniversary Collection”.
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Released album “Woody at 100: Selections from the Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “This Land Is Your Land: Essential Collection”.
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “My Dusty Road”.
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2008· 4 entries
Released album “Original Folk: The Best of Woody Guthrie”.
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Released album “This Machine Kills Fascists”.
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The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949, a rare live recording released in cooperation with the Woody Guthrie Foundation, was the recipient of a Grammy Award in the category Best Historical Album
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Released album “The Musical Grandfather & Father Of Bob Dylan”.
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2007· 7 entries
Released album “Dus't Can't Kill Me”.
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Released album “Hard Travelin’ Man”.
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Released album “The Beginning”.
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After CB's Gallery and CBGB, its parent club, closed
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Released album “Live Wire”.
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Released album “Dust Can't Kill Me”.
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Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
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2006· 6 entries
Released album “Some Folk”.
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Released album “The Essential Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Balladeer”.
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Guthrie was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame
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The Klezmatics set Jewish lyrics written by Guthrie to music
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Released album “The First Rays of Protest in the Twentieth Century”.
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Released album “This Land is Your Land”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “A Proper Introduction to Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your Land”.
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Released album “Pastures of Plenty”.
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2003· 5 entries
Released album “The Woody Guthrie Story”.
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Released album “Forever Gold”.
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Released album “The Best of the War Years”.
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Jimmy LaFave produced a Woody Guthrie tribute show called Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway
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Released album “Woody Guthrie - The folk Collection Disc 1”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Dejavu Retro Gold Collection”.
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Released album “Hard Travellin'”.
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Released album “The Legendary”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Hard Luck Blues”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “The Early Years”.
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “Ramblin' Round”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2000).
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Released album “900 Miles”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “The Asch Recordings, Volumes 1–4”.
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Released album “The Asch Recordings, Volume 4: Buffalo Skinners”.
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Wesleyan University Press published a collection of essays from the conference and DiFranco's record label, Righteous Babe, released a compilation of the Severance Hall concert, Til We Outnumber 'Em, in 2000
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1998· 3 entries
As part of its Legends of American Music series, the United States Postal Service issued 45 million 32-cent stamps honoring folk musicians Huddie Ledbetter, Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Josh White
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Sessions at the invitation of Guthrie's daughter Nora
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Released album “The Asch Recordings, Volume 3: Hard Travellin'”.
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997).
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Released album “This Land Is Your Land: An All-American Children's Folk Classic”.
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Released album “The Asch Recordings, Volume 1: This Land Is Your Land”.
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Released album “The Asch Recordings, Volume 2: Muleskinner Blues”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “Sing Out”.
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Released album “Early Masters”.
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Released album “Members Edition”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “A Legendary Performer”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Long Ways to Travel: The Unreleased Folkways Masters, 1944-1949”.
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Released album “Woody Guthrie's American Song: Cast Album”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Woody Guthrie”.
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1991· 3 entries
Released album “Worried Man Blues”.
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Released album “Songs to Grow On for Mother and Child”.
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Released album “One of a Kind”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Immortal Woody Guthrie Golden Classics, Part Two”.
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1988· 4 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1988).
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Woody Guthrie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and, in 2000, he was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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Released album “Folkways: A Vision Revisited”.
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Released album “Columbia River Collection”.
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1987· 1 entry
"Roll on Columbia" was chosen as the official Washington State Folk Song, and in 2001 Guthrie's "Oklahoma Hills" was chosen to be the official state folk song of Oklahoma
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1986· 1 entry
Irvine also recorded both parts of Guthrie's "The Ballad of Tom Joad" together as a complete song—under the title of "Tom Joad"—on the first album released by his other band, Patrick Street
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1979· 1 entry
Sammy Walker's LP Songs From Woody's Pen was released by Folkways Records
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Original Recordings Made By Woody Guthrie 1940-1946”.
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1970· 1 entry
At the Hollywood Bowl with Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe McDonald, Odetta, Richie Havens, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Peter Fonda and Will Geer
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1968· 2 entries
Three months after Guthrie's death, Harold Leventhal produced A Tribute to Woody Guthrie at New York City's Carnegie Hall
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Released album “Poor Boy”.
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1967· 5 entries
Died 1967-10-03.
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“Original: «This land is your land, this land is my land,From California to the New York Island.From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream watersThis land was made for you and me.”
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“I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.”
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“JThis song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.”
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From complications of Huntington's disease, inherited from his mother
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1966· 1 entry
Interior Secretary Stewart Udall awarded the hospitalized Guthrie, in absentia, the Department of Interior's Conservation Service Award
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1965· 2 entries
Released album “Woody Guthrie”.
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Released album “Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti”.
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1964· 2 entries
Released album “Library of Congress Recordings”.
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Released album “Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2”.
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1963· 1 entry
“Bound For Glory (The Story of Woody Guthrie)”
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1962· 1 entry
Released album “Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs”.
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “Bound for Glory (The Songs and Story of Woody Guthrie)”.
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1954· 1 entry
The couple returned to New York, living in the Beach Haven apartment complex owned and operated by Fred Trump in Gravesend, Brooklyn; Guthrie composed there the song "Old Man Trump"
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1952· 2 entries
Doctors advised Marjorie to divorce him and take custody of the children because of Woody's raging paranoia and occasional violent acts against family members
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It was finally determined that he was suffering from Huntington's disease, a genetic disorder inherited from his mother
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1950· 1 entry
“s obsessions. Sponsor Message Enlarge this image The folk balladeer Woody Guthrie, shown here at his home on Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island in 1950, was also a prolific writer and visual artist. Courtesy of Nora Guthrie/HarperCollins hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Nora Guthrie/HarperCollins The folk balladeer Woody Guthrie, shown here at his home on Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island in 1950, was also a prolific writer and visual artist. Courtesy of Nora Guthrie/HarperCollins”
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1949· 1 entry
Guthrie's music was used in the documentary film Columbia River, which explored government dams and hydroelectric projects on the river
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1948· 2 entries
Reworked the "Wabash Cannonball" melody as "The Wallace-Taylor Train" for the 1948 Progressive National Convention, which nominated former U
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Released album “Ballads from the Dust Bowl”.
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1947· 2 entries
Released album “Midnight Special”.
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Released album “Songs to Grow On (Work Songs)”.
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1946· 1 entry
Released album “Nursery Days”.
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1945· 4 entries
Guthrie married Marjorie Greenblatt
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The government decided that Guthrie's association with communism excluded him from further service in the Merchant Marine; he was drafted into the U
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Released album “Struggle”.
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Released album “Songs by Woody Guthrie”.
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1944· 2 entries
Released album “Songs for Victory: Music for Political Action”.
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Guthrie met Moses "Moe" Asch of Folkways Records, for whom he first recorded "This Land Is Your Land"
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1942· 1 entry
Performed "The Farmer-Labor Train", with lyrics he had written to the tune of "Wabash Cannonball"
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1941· 2 entries
To write songs for the project, but it had been postponed by World War II
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After the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union
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1940· 2 entries
Released album “Dust Bowl Ballads”.
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It was four years before he recorded it for Moses Asch in April 1944
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1939· 2 entries
The anti-Stalin owners of KFVD radio were not comfortable with Guthrie's political leanings after he wrote a song praising the Pact and the Soviet invasion of Poland
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And the subsequent outbreak of World War II, the owners of KFVD radio did not want its staff "spinning apologia" for the Soviet Union
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1936· 1 entry
Was to sign up with the Communist Party", he was never a member of the party
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1931· 1 entry
Guthrie met his first wife, Mary Jennings, the younger sister of his musician friend Matt Jennings
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1930· 1 entry
Of complications of Huntington's disease while still in the Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane
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1929· 2 entries
Guthrie's father sent for Woody to join him in Texas, but little changed for the aspiring musician
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After his mother, suffering from Huntington's disease, was institutionalized
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1927· 1 entry
Their father was severely burned in a fire at home
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-07-14.
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1909· 1 entry
One fire caused the loss of his family's home in Okemah a month after it was completed
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