Woody Guthrie News

His work is vast, awesome, majestic, and compelling. We haven't known an American poet who embodied such electricity since Woody Guthrie, and before him, Walt Whitman.

The woman in the wheelchair and headphones is watching pictures go by and hearing a narrator speak about a place and a moment long ago.

You know the drill. Mid-sized city revives a long-dormant warehouse district with art galleries, a baseball park, hipster bars, food trucks, even a Spaghetti Warehouse.

This song off of the album "Desire" is the best-ever song written about raiding tombs.

It's also going to be slightly shocking for those familiar with Penner's earlier records, marked as they were by well-crafted story songs that drew on the former Albertan's work with the homeless and dispossessed.

This musical caf is a one-man operation now, but the charm of the place hasn't been affected much by being downsized.

Steve Earle produces songs, short stories, novels, and plays the way most people breathe.

John Cohen, a photographer who took a series of pre-fame pictures of Bob Dylan, says he knew from the first that there would be more to Bob Dylan than the legacy sounds of folk and old blues.

Here's an in-depth look at the life of influential singer-songwriter and 10-time Grammy Award winner Bob Dylan .

If you're looking to start your night a little early Saturday, check out Yourchestra in a matinee show at Coffee Gallery Backstage.

The new, 12,000-square-foot Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa features exhibits on Guthrie's life and includes Oklahoma's only permanent exhibit on the Dust Bowl.

Granted, Colorado Springs doesn't always get the best-known musicians coming through, but we'll soon be getting a lot of their offspring.

Arlo Guthrie played to a packed audience at Dowagiac's Dogwood Fine Arts Festival in 2008.

May 13, 2013 - MANHATTAN, N.Y. -- [New York, NY] The latest album from emerging singer/songwriter Robert Rossi is his second effort, and has been a masterpiece in the making for this young talented artist since the release of his 12-song debut record "Flown Away" in 2012.

The woman in the wheelchair and headphones is watching pictures go by and hearing a narrator speak about a place and a moment long ago.

Host Scott Houston and his guest, Matt Munhall, discuss playing Woody Guthrie's classic American folk tune, "This Land Is Your Land." Five-time Grammy nominee, David Benoit, demonstrates playing tunes with only black keys.

Before the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, Jim Hendrix, Bob Dylan and others, there was Pete Seeger.

Ever pluck a harp or drum on a djembe, womp-womp on a didgeridoo or buzz into a shofar? Ever strum a mountain dulcimer or frail a banjo? All of these traditional instruments are part of Todd's Musical Petting Zoo, the featured attraction at Tuckerton Seaport and Baymen's Museum on Saturday, May 18, and Sunday, May 19 for Seaport's Annual Bluegrass ... (more)

In this month's book list offered by Noe Valley librarians Susan Higgins and Catherine Starr, you will find a posthumous novel by singer Woody Guthrie, the Nolo guide to maximizing retirement, and a treasury of songs selected by actress Julie Andrews and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton.

JUDY COLLINS Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Discovery Theatre 5/8-5/8/2013 Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes.