Woody Guthrie News

The tree-hugging post-hippies of the '80s stripped folk music of its bite in a way that surely caused Woody Guthrie to do back flips in his grave.

BMNN wrote: on Nov. 04, 2009: Over 60 years after Folkways Records released Woody Guthrie's first children's/family music album in 1947, his granddaughter Sarah Lee Guthrie is ensuring the family's commitment to children's music and its longstanding collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways, the home of Folkways Records.

Revivalist string band Old Crow Medicine Show has the look and sound of a band from another era, playing a mix of country, bluegrass and Americana songs that were written decades before anyone in the band was born.

In the short time Jonny Woodrose & the Broken-Hearted Woodpeckers have been together, the outfit has grown from being a bit of a joke band vehicle for singer Jonson Kuhn's humorous storytelling into one of the most engaging and fun Americana bands in the scene.

Halloween, the time when adults decide to don their favorite witty getups, whether it be the intellectual "Freudian slip" or the pop culture driven "Christian Bale Yelling." We're sure some of you are short on ideas, so we've compiled a list of band inspired costumes to wear to your favorite party.

Arlo Guthrie is a musician inevitably connected to the legacy of his father, the folk music icon Woody Guthrie, the 'folk boom' of Greenwich Village in the 1960s, and the 1969 'music and arts festival' that was Woodstock.

There is a story we have heard that we'd like to share with you. The story goes that folk legend Woody Guthrie was in his house, and a young man jumped his fence to meet him.

It's amazing what people will do for money. Woody Guthrie wrote "Roll On Columbia" for the Bonneville Power Administration in 1941.

"Come back Woody Guthrie, come back to us now," Steve Earle implored in his stirring 1997 ballad "Christmastime in Washington." "Tear your eyes from paradise--and rise again somehow." It's a socialist's pipedream that's gained urgency at a time when President Obama is branded as a communist and even PBS-TV filmmaker Ken Burns has come under fire ...

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- In 1940, believing that "God Bless America" was too passive an anthem, the great folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote an answer called " Your Land." Pete Seeger, God bless him, sang it at the Inaugural Concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday.

Arlo Guthrie brings his mix of music, storytelling and commentary to the suburbs for two shows this weekend.

The Plymouth Arts Center will present Sheboygan Light Rail in concert at 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct.

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there And that sign said - no tress passin' But on the other side ... it didn't say nothin! Now that side was made for you and me! -- From Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" For a generation of music-loving Richmonders the second Saturday in October always meant another edition of High on the Hog -- the annual ...

Some musicians travel with a big entourage, but it's hard to top Arlo Guthrie's posse.

Iowa singer/songwriter Chad Elliott's much anticipated album "Redemption Man," will be released in Cherokee, on Oct.

Folk singer Mark Dvorak, who follows in the footsteps of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, will perform at Loutit District Library, 407 Columbus Ave., at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

Doron sez, "Folk musician Steven Arntson wanted to write a song that riffed on a Woody Guthrie's 'I Ain't Got No Home'. Guthrie's song was based on the Carter Family's 'This World Is Not My Home' which was in turn based on an old spirtual... Unfortunately Arnston is finding out that current copyright law does not allow for the creative give and ...

Arlo Guthrie gathers three generations of family members together to perform the clan's favorite hits on stage at The Irvington Town Hall Theatre.

If anyone can lay claim to being the "First Family" of folk, it would have to be the Guthries.

Because I wrote about Title Tracks' versions of songs byA The Flamin' Groovies andA The Merseybeats earlierA this week, and because Bob Dylan 's trulyA atrociousA new disc of Christmas standards leaked yesterday, I've been thinking a lot about covers.