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folksinger Woody Guthrie
[1912-67]
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'The Dust Bowl Troubadour' folk music legend Woody Guthrie [1912-67] used his songs and performances
to fight alongside labor against oppression by the oligarchs.
Woody wrote over 3,000 songs in his lifetime, yet only 300 or so were ever recorded.
“I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down
at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I ain't gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.”
“It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.”
“Talking union is the best kind of talking [that] you can do. Talking union in your house. Talking union in your street.
Union in your town. Or union around the world."
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singer-songwriter Woodie Guthrie [1912-67]
woody worked for the bonneville power admin in 1941
Woodie was a Merchant Seaman in the North Atlantic from June 1943 to 1945; two of his ships were hit by German torpedoes.
The World War I-era destroyer USS Reuben James was the first U.S. ship torpedoed by German U-boats in World War II, on 31 October 1941. Woody Guthrie's 1942 song "The Sinking of The Reuben James" arose because he personally knew several of the men aboard.
tombstone has epitaph 'bound for glory'
superb bio material http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005T4RQ4A/
woody's last major composition (for which he wrote only the lyrics, with the music added later by Martin Hoffman) came in 1948 with "Deportees"
Woody Guthrie entry at Wikipedia
browse the Woody Guthrie Music Store {35 albums} at Amazon
Woody Guthrie credits [since 1940] at Internet Movie Database
Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives [1972-2013] - entry at Wikipedia became the
Woody Guthrie Center [est. 2013] in Tulsa, Oklahoma •
entry at Wikipedia
Woody Guthrie Folk Festival [est. 1998 - July 2025 is #27] in Okemah, Oklahoma
official website •
entry at Wikipedia
Woody Guthrie received
1970: Posthumous induction to Songwriters Hall of Fame.
1977: Posthumous induction to Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
1988: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Early Influences Trophy
1998: commemoration on a 32-cent U.S. postage stamp in the Legends of Folk Singers stamp series.
2000: Posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
2006: Posthumous induction to Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
Sept 2010: listed among The Nation Magazine's 50 Most Influential Progressives.
2012: included in Peter Dreier's colorful & witty book about
"The 100 Greatest Americans of The Twentieth Century".
Woody Guthrie has no star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Selected Recordings
The common estimate is that Woody Guthrie wrote more than 3,000 songs during his short lifespan, yet only 300 or so were ever recorded. Academics are still researching
archival material and finding more lyrics. Woody often performed traditional songs and songs written by fellow musicians, so the list of recordings is also potentially quite long.
Wikipedia's discography of Woody Guthrie
Wikipedia's {incomplete} listing of Woody Guthrie's songs
browse the Woody Guthrie Music Store {35 albums} at Amazon
Woody Guthrie Center's official list of Woody Guthrie's songs & lyrics {420+ in 2025}
detail about Woody's songs grew rapidly and so was cut to page 3 in October 2025.
Woody Guthrie's Record Albums
Wikipedia's discography of Woody Guthrie
browse the Woody Guthrie Music Store {35 albums} at Amazon
 | "Dust Bowl Ballads" [Victor Records orig 1940, re-issue 1964] by Woody Guthrie
The only non-compilation album in Guthrie's lifetime; original release in July 1940 was two albums: "Dust Bowl Ballads, Volume 1" and "D-B-B- Volume 2" - each consisted of three 78 RPM vinyl records; songs include "Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues", "Blowing Down This Road", "Do Re Mi", "Dust Cain't Kill Me", "Ballad of Tom Joad-Part 1" & "Tom Joad-Part 2", "The Great Dust Storm", "Dusty Old Dust" ("So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh"), "Dust Bowl Refugee", "Dust Pneumonia Blues", "I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore", "Vigilante Man" • album entry at Wikipedia BMG Intl. music album CD [1/2007] for $7.96 Buddha / BMG music album CD [7/2000] out of prodn/used brand unknown MP-3 music album download [date unknown] for $9.49 Uni/Rounder audio cassette [2/2007] out of prodn/used |
"Work Songs To Grow On" [1947]
 | "The Almanac Singers: Talking Union" [orig 1941, re-issues 1955 & 2012]
a collection of union songs and ballads, written over the years by many different labor songwriters; 21 songs: "The Strange Death of John Doe", "Plow Under", "Ballad of October 16th", "Liza Jane", "Billy Boy", "'C' For Conscription", "Washington Breakdown", "Talking Union", "Union Train", "Which Side Are You On?", "Get Thee Behind Me, Satan", "Union Maid", "All I Want", "Song For Bridges", "Babe o' Mine", "Dear Mr. President", "Belt-Line Girl", "Round and Round Hitler's Grave", "Side By Side", "Deliver The Goods", "The Sinking of The Reuben James" album entry at Wikipedia • Almanac Singers entry at Wikipedia Smithsonian Folkways Recordings vinyl LP [3/2013] out of prodn/scarce Smithsonian Folkways Recordings audio CD [2012] for $16.45 Naxos audio CD [2001] 21 tracks for $20.45 Keynote Recordings 78-rpm vinyl set [3/2013] 3 disks - SOLD OUT! | |
 | "Nursery Days: Music To Grow On" children's album [1951/1968/1992] Composed & sung by Woody Guthrie twelves songs on the 1951 original, four songs added on the 1992 release: "Clean-O", "Come See", "Dance Around", "Don't You Push Me Down", "Howdido", "Merry-Go-Round", "My Dolly", "Put Your Finger In The Air", "Race You Down The Mountain", "Riding In My Car", "Sleep Eye", "Wake Up"; four bonus songs: "Bubble Gum", "Jiggy Jiggy Bum", "My Yellow Crayon", "Roll On" • album entry at Wikipedia Folkways Records vinyl LP [11/2013] out of prodn/scarce Smithsonian Folkways music CD [12/2006] 16 tracks for $9.99 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings MP-3 music album download [1992] 16 tracks for $9.49 |
Woody Guthrie was hospitalized in June 1952, so family members and 'Moe' Asch managed album releases
until and after Woody died 15 years later in 1967.
 | "Bound For Glory: Songs and Stories of Woody Guthrie" [1956/2012] Sung by Woody Guthrie, Told by Will Geer, Edited by Millard Lampell 13 songs, with commentary: "Better World A-Comin", children's medley ("Little Sack of Sugar", "Ship In The Sky", "Swimmy Swim"), "Do-Re-Mi", "Grand Coulee Dam", "Jesus Christ", "Pastures of Plenty", "The Sinking of The Reuben James", "Stagger Lee (Stagolee)", "Talking Fishing Blues", "This Land Is Your Land", "Vigilante Man" • album entry at Wikipedia Smithsonian Folkways Recordings music CD [3/2007] for $16.15 MP-3 music album download [1956 version] for $9.49 | |
 | "Songs To Grow On For Mother and Child" [orig 1956, re-issue 1992] Composed & sung by Woody Guthrie the 18 songs are "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8", "Bling-Blang", "Goodnight Little Arlo", "Grassy Grass Grass", "I Want My Milk (I Want It Now)", "I'll Eat You, I'll Drink You (Eat You Up)", "I'll Write and I'll Draw", "Little Sugar", "Make A Blobble", "Needle Sing", "One Day Old", "Pick It Up", "Pretty & Shiney-O", "Rattle My Rattle", "Swimmy Swim", "Wash-y Wash Wash", "Who's My Pretty Baby?", and "Why, Oh Why" Smithsonian Folkways vinyl LP album [12/2011] out of prodn/used Smithsonian Folkways music CD [10/2006] out of prodn/used Smithsonian Folkways MP-3 music album download [12/2011] for $9.49 | |
 | "Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti" [orig 1960, re-issue 1996] written & performed by Woody Guthrie eleven songs, one spoken word track: "The Flood and The Storm", "Two Good Men", "I Just Want To Sing Your Name", "Red Wine", "Suassos Lane", "You Souls of Boston", "Old Judge Thayer", "Vanzetti's Rock", "Vanzetti's Letter", "Root Hog and Die", "We Welcome To Heaven", and "Sacco's Letter To His Son" read by Pete Seeger Smithsonian Folkways remastered recordings [2/96] 12 tracks for $16.18 more info on Spirit of America Bookstore's Sacco & Vanzetti Page | |
 | "Songs To Grow On, Volume 3: This Land Is My Land - American Work Songs" [1961] 11 songs: "Columbia River" by Woody Guthrie; "Down In The Mines" sung by Cisco Houston; "Down The Hatch" sung by Bill Bonyon; "Haul Away Joe" sung by Lead Belly; "Jerry Go and Oil That Car" sung by Harry 'Mac' McClintock; "Lumbermen's Alphabet" sung by Sam Eskin; "Old Blue" sung by Cisco Houston; "Old Man" sung by Lead Belly; "This Land Is My Land" by Woody Guthrie; "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo" sung by Cisco Houston; "Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" sung by Pete Seeger Folkways Records vinyl LP [11/2009] 11 tracks - out of prodn/used | |
 | "Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Volume 1" music album [1962/1989] Introduction by Pete Seeger; 14 songs, some with Sonny Terry, Cisco Houston, Lead Belly, and-or Bess Hawes: "The Boll Weevil", "Brown Eyes", "Guitar Blues (instrumental)", "Hard Travelin", "Jackhammer Blues", "John Henry", "My Dirty Overhalls", "900 Miles From Home (instrumental)", "Oregon Trail", "The Rising Sun Blues", "Springfield Mountain", "We Shall Be Free", "What Did The Deep Sea Say?", "Will You Miss Me?" Smithsonian Folkways music CD [12/2006] for $12.58 Smithsonian Folkways MP-3 music album download [1989 version] for $8.99 | |
 | "Hard Travelin' Man" music album [1964] by Woody Guthrie
28 songs include: "A Picture From Life's Other Side", "All You Fascists", "Baltimore To Washington", "Better World A-Comin", "Buffalo Gals", "Buffalo Skinners", "Car Song", "Dig My Life Away", "Dust Bowl Blues", "Hard, Ain't It Hard", "Hard Travelin", "I Ain't Got No Body", "I Ride An Old Paint", "Jackhammer Blues", "Jarama Blues", "Jesus Christ", Mean Talking Blues", "Muleskinner Blues", "New Found Land", "Oregon Trail", "Poor Boy", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Ship In The Sky", "Slipknot, Hangknot", "Take A Whiff On Me", "Two Good Men", "When That Great Ship Went Down", "Wreck of The Old 97" • no separate entry at Wikipedia Dark Peak Prodns remastered music CD [5/2007] out of prodn/used | |
 | "Woody Guthrie: Library of Congress Recordings" [orig 1964, re-issue 1988] Recorded by Alan Lomax Three hours of songs & conversations; 29 songs on three disks: Disc 1: "Lost Train Blues", "Railroad Blues", "Rye Whiskey", "Old Joe Clark", "Beaumont Rag", "Texas Oil Field", "Greenback Dollar", "Boll Weevil Song", "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You", "Talking Dust Bowl Blues", "Do-Re-Mi"; Disc 2: "Hard Times", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "They Laid Jesus Christ In His Grave", "Jolly Banker", "I Ain't Got No Home", "Dirty Overalls", "Chain Around My Leg", "Worried Man Blues", "Lonesome Valley", "Walking Down That Railroad Line"; Disc 3: "Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad", "Dust Storm Disaster", "Foggy Mountain Top", "Dust Pneumonia Blues", "California Blues", "Dust Bowl Refugees", "Will Rogers Highway", "Los Angeles New Year's Flood" Elektra Records vinyl LP & booklet [1964] 2 disks - out of prodn/scarce Rounder Records CD set [6/1989] 3 disks - out of prodn/scarce Rounder Records CD set [8/1995] 3 disks - out of prodn/scarce Rounder Records CD set [1992] out of prodn/scarce |
 | "Woody Guthrie: Struggle" music album [orig 1976, re-issued 1992] twelve songs recorded in the 1940s: "A Dollar Down", "Buffalo Skinners", "The Dying Miner", "Get Along Little Dogies", "Hangknot, Slipknot", "Lost John", "Ludlow Massacre", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "1913 Mass-acre", "Struggle Blues", "Union Burying Ground", "Waiting At The Gate" Smithsonian Folkways vinyl LP [2018] 2 disks - out of prodn/used Smithsonian Folkways music CD [1992] 12 tracks for $14.41 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings MP-3 music album download [2018] for $9.49 | |
 | "Woody Guthrie: Columbia River Collection" covers album [1987]
17 songs (out of 26): "The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done", "Columbia's Waters", "End of My Line", "Grand Coulee Dam", "Hard Travelin", "It Takes A Married Man To Sing A Worried Song", "Jackhammer Blues", "New Found Land", "Oregon Trail", "Pastures of Plenty", "Ramblin' Blues", "Ramblin' Round", "Roll Columbia, Roll", "Roll On Columbia", "Song of The Coulee Dam", "Talking Columbia", "Washington Talkin' Blues" • the absent nine songs were not recorded by Woody Guthrie album entry at Wikipedia Topic Records U.K. vinyl LP [5/2014] out of prodn/used Concord Music/Rounder Records music CD [12/2006] out of prodn/used Concord Music/Rounder Records MP-3 music album download [1987] 17 tracks for $11.49 Concord Music/Rounder Records MP-3 music album download [1987] 17 tracks for $11.49 | |
 | "The Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie" [1991] 23 songs: "Buffalo Skinners", "Curley-Headed Baby", "Deportee", "Dirty Overhalls", "Do Re Mi", "The Great Historical Bum", "Hard, Ain't It Hard", "Hard Travelin", "Jackhammer John", "Jesus Christ", "900 Miles From Home", "1913 Massacre", "Pastures of Plenty", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Rambling Round Your City", "Roll On Columbia", "Ship In The Sky", "The Sinking of The Reuben James", "So Long-It's Been Good To Know Yuh", "(Take Me) Riding In My Car", "Talking Fishing Blues", "This Land Is Your Land", "When The Curfew Blows" Vanguard Records vinyl LP [11/2016] 2 disks for $14.98 Vanguard Records music CD [12/2006] 23 tracks for $44.95 |
"Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your Land - The Asch Recordings, Volume 1" (1997)
"Woody Guthrie: Muleskinner Blues - The Asch Recordings, Volume 2" (1997)
"Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' - The Asch Recordings, Volume 3" (1998)
http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Travelin-Asch-Recordings-Vol/dp/B00000611V/
"Woody Guthrie: Buffalo Skinners - The Asch Recordings, Volume 4" (1999)
 | "Woody Guthrie Ultimate Collection: 51 Groundbreaking Recordings" [2003]
50 songs recorded by The Almanac Singers (1), Ramblin' Jack Elliott (3), Woody Guthrie (5), Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston (1), Cisco Houston (1), Burl Ives (9), Leadbelly (6), Odetta (5), Pete Seeger (6), The Weavers (8), Josh White (4), Josh White with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (1) Not Now Music Ltd. U.K. music album CD [5/2007] 2 disks for $9.99 Platinum/Wave music album CD [10/2007] 2 disks for $14.94 Prism Platinum music album CD [12/2006] 2 disks - out of prodn/scarce |
"The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie In Performance 1949" (2007)
 | "The Very Best of Woody Guthrie" [2007]
different mix of songs, only 14 tracks on this product: "Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road", "Bury Me Beneath The Willows", "Buffalo Skinners", "Columbus Stockade Blues", "Danville Girl", "Gypsy Davy", "Hard, Ain't It Hard", "John Henry", "Lonesome Day", "More Pretty Girls Than One", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Rangers Command", and "Worried Man Blues (2 versions) Cleopatra music CD [1/2007] 14 tracks - out of prodn/used | |
 | "The Very Best of Woody Guthrie" [2007] 21 songs written by Woody Guthrie and others: "Do Re Mi", "Dust Pneumonia Blues", "Going Down The Road Feeling Bad", "Goodnight, Little Arlo", "Grand Coulee Dam", "Hard Travelin' ", "I Ain't Got No Home", "Jesus Christ", "Keep Your Skillet Good and Greasy", "Pastures of Plenty", "Philadelphia Lawyer", "Pictures From Life's Other Side", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Put My Little Shoes Away", "So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh", "Take A Whiff On Me", "Talkin' Hard Luck Blues", "This Land Is Your Land", "Washington Talkin' Blues", "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo / Get Along Little Dogies", "The Wreck of The Old '97" Not Now Records UK vinyl LP [6/2024] for $20.99 Music Club Records music CD [2/2007] 21 tracks - out of prodn/used | |
 | "My Dusty Road" CD Box Set [2009] by Woody Guthrie
54 songs from newly discovered original metal masters, accompanied on some by guitarist Cisco Houston and-or harmonica player Sonny Terry Rounder Records music CD set [8/2009] 54 tracks on 4 disks for $57.49 | |
 | "Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Volume 2" [2012]
the 15 songs are "Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy", "Talking Hard Luck Blues", "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Little Dogies", "A Picture From Life's Other Side", "Hen Cackle", "Danville Girl", "Put My Little Shoes Away", "Sally Goodin", "Hard Ain't It Hard", "Gamblin' Man", "The Wreck Of The Old '97", "Take A Whiff On Me", "Make Me A Pallet Down On That Floor", "Buffalo Gal", "Goin' Down This Road Feelin' Bad" Smithsonian Institution vinyl LP album [10/2008] 15 songs for $22.55 Smithsonian Institution music CD [5/2012] for $22.55 |
 | "Woody Guthrie At 100: Live At The Kennedy Center" soundtrack album [2012] 2-disk album includes both shows, performed by Jackson Browne, Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal, Judy Collins, Ani DiFranco with Ry Cooder & Dan Gellert, Donovan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Jimmy LaFave, The Del McCoury Band with Tony Trischka & Tim O'Brien, John Mellencamp, Tom Morello, Old Crow Medicine Show, Joel Rafael, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Tony Trischka, Lucinda Williams; text readings by Jeff Daniels, Nora Guthrie; archival audio of John Steinbeck; rare recordings of Woody talking about his early days, and Woody singing "John Henry" with Sonnie Terry & Brownie McGhee, "Greenback Dollar" & "The Rangers Command"; the 154-page companion book includes essays by Jeff Place, Robert Santelli & Peter LaChappell; the 48 tracks include songs: "Do Re Mi", "Deportee", "Ease My Revolutionary Mind", "Greenback Dollar", "Hard Travelin'", "House of Earth", "Howdi Do", "I Ain't Got No Home", "I've Got To Know", "John Henry", "1913 Massacre", "Pastures of Plenty", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Ramblin' Reckless Hobo", "The Rangers Command", "Riding In My Car", "So Long, It's Been Good To Know Yuh", "This Land Is Your Land", "This Train Is Bound For Glory", "Union Maid", "Woody's Rag", "You Know The Night" Legacy Recordings soundtrack CD set [4/2013] 48 tracks for $28.95 the MP-3 album download has only 19 tracks from the event Legacy Recordings MP3 soundtrack album download [6/2013] 19 tracks for $10.99 |
 | "Woody Guthrie At 100: Live At The Kennedy Center" concert film [May 2013] appears to include the full 85-minute concert + six minutes of bonus material bare credits at IMDb • official concert page at P.B.S. website not found Legacy Recordings DVD [5/2013] out of prodn/used |
 | "Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection" [2013]
Though the titles are similar, this Smithsonian Folkways box set has no connection to the live performances on CD & DVD just above; this deluxe 3-disk audio CD box set contains song recordings of Woody, sometimes with other artists, plus radio interviews and recordings of Woody talking about his life; the 57 tracks include: "A Dollar Down and A Dollar A Week", "All Work Together", "Bad Lee Brown (Cocaine Blues)", "Better World A-Comin", "The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done", "Buffalo Skinners", "Dirty Overalls", "Do Re Mi", "Farmer-Labor Train", "Going Down The Road (Feeling Bad)", "Goodnight, Little Cathy", "The Grand Coulee Dam", "Gypsy Davy", "Hangknot, Slip-knot", "Hard, Ain't It Hard", "Hard Travelin", "Hobos Lullaby", "Howdi Do", "I Ain't Got No Home (In This World Anymore)", "I've Got To Know", "Jackhammer John", "Jarama Valley", "Jesus Christ", "The Jolly Banker", "Lindbergh", "Ludlow Massacre", "My Daddy (Flies A Ship In The Sky)", "My Little Seed", "New York Town", "1913 Massacre", "Pastures of Plenty", "Philadelphia Lawyer", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Ramblin' Round Your City", "The Rangers Command", "Reckless Talk", "Riding In My Car", "The Sinking of The Reuben James", "Skid Row Serenade", "So Long, It's Been Good To Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust)", "Talking Centralia", "Talking Columbia", "Talking Dust Bowl", "Them Big City Ways", "This Land Is Your Land", "Two Good Men", "What Are We Waiting On?", "We Shall Be Free", "When That Great Ship Went Down", "Why, Oh Why?", "Worried Man Blues"; and radio programs "The Ballad Gazette with Woody Guthrie"; "BBC Childrens Hour" on 7 July 1944; "Folk Songs of America" [WNYC Radio 12 December 1940], and "Peoples Songs Hootenanny" Smithsonian Folkways Recordings soundtrack CD set [4/2013] 57 tracks for $54.08 |
 | Troubadours: Folk and The Roots of American Music, Volume 1" on 3 CDs [2014]
The first set (of four) covers the period from the 1920s through to 1957, the original versions of songs that have become classics and rallying cries; 74 songs by artists The Almanac Singers (5); Dick Blakeslee; Oscar Brand (2); Oscar Brand & Jean Ritchie; The Carter Family (3); Paul Clayton (3); The Dixon Brothers; Duncan & Lieberman & Sanders & Smith ("Die Gedanken Sind Frei - Thoughts Are Free"); The Easy Riders (4); The Gateway Singers (2); Bob Gibson (2); Terry Gilkyson; Cynthia Gooding; Woody Guthrie (11: "Babe o'Mine", "Do Re Mi", "Dusty Old Dust", "Grand Coulee Dam", "Hard Travelin", "I Ain't Got No Home", "I've Got To Know", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Ramblin' Round", "This Land Is Your Land", and "Philadelphia Lawyer" with Cisco Houston); Sam Hinton ("Old Man Atom - Talking Atomic Blues"); Will Holt (2); Cisco Houston (3); Burl Ives; Lead Belly (3); Vince Martin & The Tarriers; Ed McCurdy; Vern Partlow; Jean Ritchie (2); Earl Robinson (3); Carl Sandburg; Pete Seeger (4); The Tarriers (2); Merle Travis (2); The Union Boys (3: "UAW-CIO", "Solidarity Forever"); The Weavers (4); Josh White Bear Family Records music CD set [6/2014] 3 disks for $35.99 "Troubadours - Folk und Die Wurzeln Amerikanischer Musik" - songs in English, German-language liner notes, etc: Bear Family Records music CD set [6/2014] - link not found on Amazon USA or Germany |
 | "Woody At Home: Volumes 1 & 2" [released August 2025] 
Woody's raw and intimate Beach Haven, NY home recordings of 1951-1952; the collection contains 22 unreleased recordings, including 13 previously never-before-heard Woody Guthrie songs; these rare recordings include "This Land Is Your Land", featuring new verses, and the only known Guthrie recording of "Deportee" in existence • the 22 songs & texts are: "This Land Is Your Land", "Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done", "Howie, I'd Like To Talk To Yuh" (spoken), "Deportee", "Great Ship", "Pastures of Plenty", "Jesus Christ", "I'm A Child Ta Fight", "Innocent Man", "I've Got To Know", "Backdoor Bum and The Big Land Lord", "I Just Want To Tell You Fellers" (spoken), "Peace Call", "Ain't Afraid To Die", "Buoy Bells For Trenton", "Einstein Theme Song", "One Little Thing An Atom Can't Do", "Forsaken Lover", "My Id & My Ego", "Lifebelt Washed Up", "Funny Mountain", "You Better Git Ready" Shamus Records MP-3 music album download [8/2025] 22 tracks for $17.98 available on CD or vinyl for $18.00 from official Woody Guthrie Store { on backorder 9/2025 } |
The first "Tribute To Woody Guthrie" concert was two performances at Carnegie Hall on 20 January 1968;
then repeated at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl in 1970.
 | "Woody Guthrie All Star Tribute Concert" [PBS-TV 1970] Produced & directed by Jim Brown; PBS event was edited down from the two live concerts for TV and runs 51 minutes; bonus material on the DVD includes 3 songs, 2 short audio interviews 80-minute M.V.D. Visual color DVD [6/2019] for $11.55 listen to audio recordings [9/2023 download; 51:22] online at Internet Archive watch concert film [6/2023 download; 50:56] FREE at YouTube |
 | "A Tribute To Woody Guthrie" concerts [1972]
27 tracks: narration by Judy Collins, Peter Fonda, Will Geer, Arlo Guthrie, Odetta, Robert Ryan; performers include Joan Baez (1), Judy Collins (1), Judy Collins & Pete Seeger (1), Bob Dylan (3), Ramblin' Jack Elliott (2), Arlo Guthrie (4), Richie Havens & Pete Seeger (1), Country Joe McDonald (1), Odetta (1), Earl Robinson (1), Pete Seeger (1), Tom Paxton (2), and intrumentals "Roll On Columbia" & "This Land Is Your Land" Warner Bros. LP vinyl records [11/2014] 2 disks - out of prodn/used Warner Bros. concerts CD [11/1989] out of prodn/used Warner Records MP-3 soundtrack album download [11/2005] 27 tracks for $14.49 available at Internet Archive as audio samples only |
"Woody Guthrie: Tribute Concerts: Deluxe Edition Box Set" audio CD [2017]
 | total playing time 3 hours & 40 minutes; narration written by Woody's friend Millard Lampell; box includes 3 audio CDs and two books; DISK 1 Narration by Judy Collins, Will Geer & Robert Ryan;
performances by Judy Collins, Bob Dylan with members of The Band, Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie {video}, Richie Havens, Odetta, Tom Paxton & Pete Seeger; DISK 2 Narration by Judy Collins, Peter Fonda & Will Geer; performances by Joan Baez, Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald, Odetta, Earl Robinson & Pete Seeger; DISK 3 Narration by Joan Baez, Peter Fonda & Will Geer; performances by Joan Baez, Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe McDonald, Odetta, Earl Robinson & Pete Seeger; interviews by Michael Kleff with: Judy Collins (2), Jack Elliott (2), Arlo Guthrie (5), Tom Paxton (3), Rick Robbins (4); interviews with Bob Dylan , Country Joe McDonald (2), Phil Ochs & Pete Seeger; plus essays by Will Kaufman, Wenzel {sic} & Sean Wilentz
Bear Family Records audio CD set [6/2017] 99 tracks on 3 disks for $124.38 |
"Thinking of Woody Guthrie" tribute album [Vanguard 1969] by Country Joe McDonald
"Pastures of Plenty",
"Talkin' Dust Bowl",
"Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road",
"So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh",
"Tom Joad",
"The Sinking of The Reuben James",
"Roll On Columbia",
"Pretty Boy Floyd",
"When The Curfew Blows",
"This Land Is Your Land"
http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Woody-Guthrie-COUNTRY-MCDONALD/dp/B000025Z0K/
http://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B001EV14XG mp3
 | "Bernie: We Shall Overcome" [1987]
Todd R. Lockwood Works MP-3 album [26:35] download [12/2014] for $4.95 CD Baby music CD [12/2014] for $18.47 A true oddity: recorded in Vermont in November 1987, Mayor Bernie Sanders talk-sings along with 30 others on five tracks: traditional "Oh Freedom" [4:24]; Pete Seeger's "The Banks of Marble" [5:53]; Pete Seeger's "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" [5:49]; Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" [3:07]; and the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" [7:22]; featured artists include Nancy Beaven, Danny Coane. Jon Gailmor, Dick McCormack, Bernie Sanders & Robert Sterzinger |
 | "It Takes A Lot of People: Tribute To Woody Guthrie" live concert album [1988] by folk musician & activist Larry Long, with Children of Oklahoma Recorded at a historic tribute concert at the Crystal Theater in Guthrie's hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma; the album features Long, children from local communities, and other musicians performing Guthrie's works and several new songs includes 12/11 songs and 5/6 short quotations: "Bound For Glory", Woody Guthrie 'Love' quotation, "It Takes A Lot of People", Woody Guthrie 'Direction' quotation, "Ballad of The Great Land Rush", Woody Guthrie 'Kids' quotation, "Barn-yard", "Talking Fishing Blues", Woody Guthrie 'Freedom' quotation, "Boley", "Song of Thanks", "Oh Freedom", "Okla-homa Hills", "Okemah Waltz", Woody Guthrie 'Bound For Glory' quotation, "Talking Okemah Town", and "This Land Is Your Land" {NOTE: the CD skips "This Land..." and includes Woody Guthrie 'This Is Our World' quotation} Flying Fish Records vinyl LP [1988] 18 tracks - out of prodn/used Flying Fish Records music CD-R [1/2017] 17 tracks - out of prodn/used Flying Fish Records MP-3 album download [7/2024] 17 tracks for $9.49 6-page album slideshow [2/2024 upload] at Internet Archive 17-track album playlist [7/2024 upload] at YouTube |
"Mermaid Avenue" tribute album [1998] by Billy Bragg with American country band Wilco
In Spring 1995, Nora Guthrie invited British singer/songwriter Billy Bragg to look through the family archives, especially all the thousands of song lyrics that Woody
had written in his notebooks; Billy put some to music and recorded them; album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaid_Avenue
http://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Avenue-Billy-Bragg-Wilco/dp/B000007NC0/ cd
http://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0C13B25LG/ mp3
"Mermaid Avenue, Volume 2" tribute album [2000] by Billy Bragg with American country band Wilco
http://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Avenue-Vol-Billy-Bragg/dp/B00004TBES/
"Mermaid Avenue, Volume III" tribute album [Nonesuch 10/2013] by Billy Bragg with American country band Wilco
http://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Avenue-BILLY-WILCO-BRAGG/dp/B00FU3DSHY/
the 1990s recording sessions were the topic of BBC's documentary film "Man In The Sand" [1999].
 | "American Roots: A History of American Folk Music" on 4 CDs [1999 & 2013] Compiled in The Netherlands by Tony Watts 94 tracks by artists including Roy Acuff (3), Gene Autry (4), The Carter Family (7), Woody Guthrie (7), Woody with Cisco Houston (7), Woody with Pete Seeger (1), Bill Monroe (5), Jimmie Rodgers (7), Pete Seeger (4), Pete Seeger with The Almanac Singers (7), Merle Travis (4), and Bob Wills (1) Disky/Musicrama/Koch music CD set [1999] 4 disks - out of prodn/used |
 | "Classic Railroad Songs From Smithsonian Folkways" [2006]
artists include: Leadbelly (3); Elizabeth Cotten; Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston (2); Haywire Mac; L.M. Hilton; Cisco Houston; Iron Mountain String Band; Furry Lewis; Brownie McGhee; John D. Mounce; The New Lost City Ramblers (2); Walt Robertson; Mike Seeger; Pete Seeger; Rosalie Sorrels (2); Pop Stoneman; Vernon Sutphin; Henry Grady Terrell; The Virginia Mountain Boys; Annie Watson; Doc Watson (2) – and others Smithsonian Folkways audio CD [1/2006] 29 tracks for $17.97 | |
 | "Wonder Wheel: Lyrics By Woody Guthrie" music album [2006] by The Klezmatics band [est. 1986] their first English-language album; won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album; includes twelve songs: "Come When I Call You", "Mermaid's Avenue", "Headdy Down", "Gonna Get Through This World", "Pass Away", "Holy Ground", "Goin' Away To Sea", "From Here On In", "Wheel of Life", "Condorbird", "Orange Blossom Ring", and "Heaven"; four bonus tracks on MP-3 download: "Faith Will Heal You", "I Take My Penny", "Going Up The Mountain", "Ilsa Koch" • album entry at Wikipedia Shout Factory music CD [1/2007] 12 tracks for $16.77 Shout Factory MP-3 album download [8/2009] 16 tracks for $8.99 | |
 | "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah" music album [2006] by The Klezmatics band [est. 1986]
includes 8 songs by Woody Guthrie (discovered in 1998): "Honeyky Hanuka", "Happy Joyous Hanuka", "Hanuka Bell", "Hanukah Tree", "The Many and The Few", "Hanuka Gelt", "Hanuka's Flame", "Hanuka Dance"; and four songs by others: "Gilad and Ziv's Sirba" (Sklamberg), "(Do The) Latke Flip-Flip" (London), "Groovy's Freylekhs" (Darriau), "Spin Dreydl Spin" (Gutkin) •
album entry at Wikipedia
Jewish Music Group MP-3 album download [2006] 12 tracks for $9.49 | |
 | "American Folk Anthology: 50 Original American Folk Classics on 2 CDs" [2008] cover features Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Josh White six songs by Woody Guthrie ("Brown Eyes", "Bury Me Beneath The Weeping Willow" (with Cisco Houston), "Grand Coulee Dam", "House of The Rising Sun", "Pastures of Plenty", and "This Land Is Your Land"; other artists are The Almanac Singers (1), Ramblin' Jack Elliott (3), Cisco Houston (1), Burl Ives (9), Leadbelly (5), Odetta (5), Pete Seeger (6), The Weavers (8), Josh White (5) Not Now U.K. music CD [7/2008] 2 disks for $9.99 | |
 | "To The Sons & Daughters of Woody Guthrie" music album [2009] by Red City Radio 5 original tracks: "Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads", "No One Believes In Moons & Goochers", "We Are The Sons of Woody Guthrie", "If All Else Fails Play Dead", and "Dead Friends Don't Pay Debts" Gunner Records vinyl LP [4/2013] out of prodn/scarce Gunner Records music CD [4/2012] out of prodn/used Idepoendent Records MP-3 music album download [6/2009] for $6.45 | |
 | "Ramblin' Ray Campi Recalls The Music of Woody: More Hard Travelin" [2010] by Ray Campi [1934-2021] 30 songs by Woody Guthrie, plus one spoken track: "Hard Travelin", "Oklahoma Hills", "Dust Bowl Blues", "Long Ways To Travel", "Oregon Trail", "Hard Ain't It Hard", "Along In The Sun and The Rain", "Ramblin' Around", "The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done", "Bile Them Cabbage Down", "Dust Bowl Refugee", "More Pretty Girls Than One", "Worried Man Blues", "Curley-Headed Baby", "Columbus Stockade Blues", "I Ain't Got No Home", "Buffalo Gals", "Pastures of Plenty", "California Blues", "Do Re Mi", "Blowin' Down The Road", "Birmingham Jail", "All of You Fascists", "Union Maid", "This Train Is Bound For Glory", "Dusty Old Dust", "Better World A-Comin", "This Land Is Your Land", "Philadelphia Lawyer", "Will Geer" (spoken), "The Ramblin' Rag" Real Music Productions MP-3 soundtrack album download [2010] 31 tracks for $9.49 | |
 | "This Land: Woody Guthrie's America" music album [2011] by John McCutcheon 'with help from Willie Nelson, Tommy Emmanuel, Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien, Stuart Duncan, Tom Chapin, Tom Paxton, Maria Muldaur, and others,'; includes 15 songs by Woody Guthrie: "Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done", "Mail Myself To You", "I Ain't Got No Home", "Deportees", "Harness Up The Day", "Howjadoo", "This Morning I Was Born Again", "Pastures of Plenty", "1913 Massacre", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Old Cap Moore", "Ludlow Massacre", "This Is Our Country Here", "This Land Is Your Land", and "Hobo's Lullaby" CD Baby music CD [11/2011] 15 tracks for $15.17 |
"Songs To Grow On by Woody Guthrie" children's songs [5/2012] sung by Ramblin' Jack Elliott
http://www.amazon.com/Woody-Guthries-Ramblin-Elliott-2012-05-30/dp/B01MG8EI3X/
 | "Pete Seeger Remembers Woody" music & spoken album [2012] 48 tracks by Pete Seeger, with help from CD producer David Bernz, Cathy Fink, Arlo Guthrie, Marcy Marxer, The Vanaver Caravan, Hope Machine, Cisco Houston, and Woody himself: "Woody's Ghost, Part 1", "Pete Meets Woody", "Are There Any Mountains Near Here?", "Woody Writes This Land Is Your Land", "America Learns This Land Is Your Land", "My Big Education", "66 Highway Blues", "How To Sing In Saloons", "Riding The Freights", "Rambling The Appalachians", "Which Side Are You On?", "You'd Better Get Them Singing", "Union Maid", "Songs Woody Liked", "New York Town", "Reading and Writing", "The Minstrel Song", "On The Radio", "Do Re Mi", "Woody Sez", "Why Do You Stand There In The Rain?", "The Flip-Flop", "The Almanacs Go West", "The Sinking of The Reuben James", "The Folk Process", "Woody Trilogy: Hard Travelin / This Train / There's a Better World A-Coming", "Fighting Fascism Starts Right Here", "If I Had A Hammer", "Woody's Ghost, Part 2", "From WWII To The Weavers", "Just Make It A General Song", "So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh!", "The Last Time I Heard Woody Sing", "Pastures of Plenty", "The Freest Place On Earth", "This Machine Kills Fascists", "Little Arlo Writes Things Down", "Woody In The Balcony", "This Land Is Your Land", "The Last Visit", "My Peace", "Woody Lives On", "I Ain't Got No Home", "Howdy Little Newlycome", "Peace Pin Boogie", "Woody's Rulin's", "Woody's Ghost, Part 3" Appleseed Recordings music CD set [7/2012] 2 disks for $15.74 Appleseed Recordings MP-3 album download [9/2012] 48 tracks for $18.98 | |
 | "Woody Sings Woody" tribute album [2014] by Woody Veneman (of Eindhoven, Netherlands) 13 of Woody Guthrie’s songs, sung by Woody Veneman: "Ain't Got No Home", "Grand Coulee Dam", "Hard Travelin", "John Hardy", "Mail Myself To You", "New Found Land", "New York Town", "1913 Massacre", "Stackolee", "This Land Is Your Land", "Trail of The Buffalo", "Vigilante Man", and "Worried Man Blues" indep MP-3 music album download [8/2014] for $9.49 | |
 | "Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie’s 26 Northwest Songs" covers album [2016] Various local artists cover the 26 songs that Woody Guthrie wrote in 30 days for the Bonneville Power Association in the 1930s; several songs included twice, confusing song titles, (anyway) total of 28 tracks: "The Ballad of Jackhammer John", "Ballad of The Great Grand Coulee", "The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done", "Columbia Talkin' Blues (Talking Columbia)", "Columbia's Waters", "Eleckatricity and All", "End of My Line", "Grand Coulee Powder Monkey", "Guys On The Grand Coulee Dam", "Hard Travelin", "It Takes A Married Man To Sing A Worried Song", "Jackhammer Blues (Jackhammer John)" - twice, "Lumber Is King", "New Found Land", "Out Past The End of The Line", "Pastures of Plenty" - twice, "Portland Town To Klamath Falls", "Ramblin' Blues (Portland Town)", "Ramblin' Round", "Roll, Columbia, Roll", "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On", "The Song of The Grand Coulee Dam", "The Talkin' Blues", "(That) Oregon Line", "Washington Talkin' Blues", "White Ghost Train" Smithsonian Folkways music CD [12/2016] 2 disks for $18.69 Smithsonian Folkways MP-3 music album download [1/2017] 28 tracks for $18.98 |
Other Works
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Los Angeles radio show "Woody and Lefty Lou" [1930s] 
radio program "Folk Songs of America" [WNYC Radio 12 December 1940]
radio program "The Ballad Gazette with Woody Guthrie" []
"Children's Hour" radio series [BBC Radio July 1944] episode featuring guest Woody Guthrie
in-studio (London U.K. ?) interview during his wartime Merchant Marine service; sings "Wabash Cannonball" and "900 Miles From Home"
listen to episode [6/2011 download; 5:14] at YouTube
radio program "America For Christmas" [NBC Radio 25 December 1944]
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| "Woody Guthrie's American Song" musical stageplay [1988] Songs & writings by Woody Guthrie; conceived & adapted by Prof. Peter Glazer of U.C. Berkeley; orchestrations & vocal arrangements by Jeff Waxman; six performances at the Starlight movie theater in Silver City, New Mexico in Feb-March 2025 • the 24 songs are: "Hard Travelin", "So Long It's Been Good To Know You", "Oklahoma Hills", "Dust Storm Disaster", "I Ain't Got No Home / So Long", "Bound For Glory", "Do Re Mi", "Worried Man Blues / Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way", "End of My Line", "Grand Coulee Dam", "Pastures of Plenty", "I Ain't Got No Home", "Hard Ain't It Hard", "I Don't Feel At Home On The Bowery No More", "Talkin' Subway", "Union Maid", "The Sinking of The Reuben James", "Nine Hundred Miles", "Deportee", "Better World A Comin' / Lonesome Valley", and "This Land Is Your Land" • NOTE: the 2012 album adds 18 songs or texts: "Storm of Words", "Page of My Life", "New Words To Old Tunes", "Tears and Ink", "The Drift of The Dust", "I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore / So Long (Reprise)", "Dust Bowl Refugee", "As Still As Daylight", "Ludlow Lament", "Ludlow Breakdown", "Folk Songs Are On Their Way In", "Fix The Days News Up", "The Ballad Singer", "All They Will Call You", "Your Word Singer", "Another Man's Done Gone", "This Is My Letter" • stageplay official website • author's stageplay homepage Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse cast recording [2012] 39 tracks on 2 disks - out of prodn/scarce Cleveland Intl Records cast recording [6/2008] 22 tracks - out of prodn/scarce Cleveland Intl Records cast recording [1996] 22 tracks - out of prodn/scarce |
"The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie" [2013?] at the Northlight Theater in Chicago, Illinois
nominated for a 2013 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Revue Production
"This Land Sings: Inspired by The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie" [2016]
a song cycle for soprano singer, baritone singer, and chamber ensemble by Grammy Award-winning American composer Michael Daugherty; the work is an original musical
tribute to singer-songwriter & political activist Woody Guthrie, organized into 17 vocal and instrumental numbers like a radio broadcast of the "Grand Ole Opry"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Land_Sings:_Inspired_by_the_Life_and_Times_of_Woody_Guthrie
 | "Woody Sings: The Musical Legacy of Woody Guthrie" musical stageplay [2024] by award-winning actor/singer David M. Lutken songs include "This Land Is Your Land", "Pastures of Plenty", "Bound For Glory", "Union Maid", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Roll On, Columbia”, many more; produced at Laguna Playhouse [est. 1920] in Laguna Beach, CA in June 2024 |
"Alonzo M. Zilch's Own Collection of Original Songs and Ballads" [April 1935]
the first of a series of self-published songbooks that Woody produced during his career
songbooks were distributed to listeners of his Los Angeles KFVD radio show "Woody and Lefty Lou", who wanted the words to his recordings [1930s]
Woody shared airtime with Maxine 'Lefty Lou' Crissman from Fall 1937 to Spring 1938
Maxine Crissman Archives at the Woody Guthrie Center
Woody Guthrie wrote a column, "Woody Sez", for the Communist newspaper People's World in May 1939.
 | "Bound For Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling, Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer" [1943] by Woody Guthrie, Foreword by Pete Seeger 'This is the book that created the legend' Kindle Edition from Plume [1983 edition] for $13.99 Plume 8x5¼ pb [9/1983] for $13.99 E.P. Dutton Book Club Edition hardcover [1971] out of print/used E.P. Dutton & Co. hardcover [1943] out of print/used | |
![Woody Guthrie's Songbook [1945]](covers3/WGuthrie-10songbook1945.jpg "Woody Guthrie's Songbook [1945]") | "Ten of Woody Guthrie's Songs, Book 1" [1945] Lyrics by Woody Guthrie
songs included {per cover} are "Biggest Thing", "True Love", "Grand Coulee Dam", "Jackhammer John", "This Land ...", "Talking Blues", "Ship In The Sky", "East Texas Red", "Bed On Your Floor", "Hard Traveling" retail source not found - try etsy or ebay | |
 | "Born To Win: A Collection of Woody Guthrie's Writings" [1965] Edited by Robert Shelton, folk music critic for The New York Times 'stories, drawings, letters, poems, songs, and snatches - by America's greatest prophet-singer, fascist-killer, folk-poet, talker, hummer, whistler, dancer, rambler, fighter, and all-time balladeer hero' Macmillan Publng pb [1965] out of print/used Macmillan Publng hardcover [1965] out of print/used | |
 | "Pastures of Plenty: A Self-Portrait - The Unpublished Writings of An American Folk Hero" [1990] including material written by Woody Guthrie, Edited by rock critic Dave Marsh & (Woody's manager) Harold Leventhal compiled from an archive of innumerable filing cabinets, boxes, and notebooks collected by Woody's wife Marjorie after Woody's death Harper Perennial 9x7½ pb [1992] out of print/used HarperCollins hardcover [1990] for $32.94 | |
 | "Hard Travelin': Das Woody Guthrie Buch (The Woody Guthrie Book)" [2003] Edited by Michael Kleff, Foreword by Lou Reed Songtexte und Essays (Lyrics and Essays) • contributors include Hans E. Wenzel, Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, editor Kleff; translations by Harry Rowohlt German-language Palmyra 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2003] import/used |
"Woody Guthrie: Songs & Art, Words & Wisdom" [Rizzoli 2005] by Nora Guthrie & Robert Santelli
http://archive.org/details/woodyguthrieartw0000guth
http://www.amazon.com/Woody-Guthrie-Songs-Words-Wisdom-ebook/dp/B09J1S8SZF/
http://www.amazon.com/Woody-Guthrie-Songs-Words-Wisdom/dp/1797211781/
 | "Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns" [2011] Edited by John P. Avlon, Jesse Angelo & Errol Louis Overlook 9x6 hardcover [9/2011] for $18.61 Historical and current writers covered include: Mitch Albom, Russell Baker, Mike Barnicle, Dave Barry, Ambrose Bierce, Thomas Boswell, Jimmy Breslin, David Brooks, Heywood Broun, Art Buchwald, William F. Buckley, Jimmy Cannon, Richard Harding Davis, Pete Dexter, Maureen Dowd, Fanny Fern, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas L. Friedman, Woody Guthrie [1912-67], Pete Hamill, Ben Hecht, W.C. Heinz, Ernest Hemingway, Bob Herbert, Carl Hiaasen, Langston Hughes, Murray Kempton, Michael Kinsley, Tony Kornheiser, Steve Lopez, H.L. Mencken, Jack Newfield, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, Westbrook Pegler, Leonard Pitts, Ernie Pyle, Anna Quindlen, Grantland Rice, Will Rogers, Theodore Roosevelt, Mike Royko, Damon Runyon, Red Smith, Dorothy Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson, Cynthia Tucker, Mark Twain, Orson Welles & George Will |
 | "House of Earth: A Novel" [2013] by Woody Guthrie Edited & Introduced by Douglas Brinkley & Johnny Depp Completed in 1947 and never published (possibly due to sexual content). First work from Depp's publishing imprint Infinitum Nihil; compared to John Steinbeck and D.H. Lawrence and described as a prose poem that elicits the reality of life during the 1930s Dust Bowl ecological disaster. STORY: A share-cropper and his wife struggle against the elements and the owners, hoping to someday realize their dream of building an adobe 'house of earth'. Kindle Edition from HarperCollins [2/2013] for $12.74 Harper 9¼x6½ hardcover [2/2013] for $15.04 |
 | "This Land Is Your Land: The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie" animated video [Calico/Artisan Ent. March 1997] 28-minute film nominated for two Annie Awards: Best Home Video & Best Musical Achievement (shared with Frank Fuchs); the 11 songs are: "All Work Together" + instrumental, "Along Home", "Bling-Blang", "Grassey Grass Grass", "Howdi-Do", "Mail Myself To You", "Riding In My Car", "So Long, It's Been Good To Know Yuh", and "This Land Is Your Land" + instrumental • Produced & directed by Tom Burton; featuring voices of Arlo Guthrie & Woody Guthrie • bare credits at IMDb DVD/Blu-ray not available • Live/Artisan color VHS [3/1997] out of prodn/used | |
 | "Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913" TV documentary [PBS Dec 2013]
The event in Calumet, Michigan on Christmas Eve, 1913 is locally known as the Italian Hall disaster and remains the deadliest unsolved manslaughter in U.S. history; it was immortalized by Woody Guthrie in his 1945 ballad “1913 Massacre”, performed in the film by Steve Earle • 55-minute TV docufilm produced by Robert Y. Lee, Patrick Flynn; co-produced, written & directed by Jonathan Silvers; narrated by Richard Harris; featuring historian Larry Langton, folksinger Steve Earle bare credits at IMDb • PBS movie homepage P.B.S. Direct Video widescreen color DVD [1/2014] for $29.84 watch 12/2013 trailer [0:29] online at YouTube watch full movie [2/2025 upload; 59:58] online at YouTube watch truncated movie [10/2017 upload; 52:34] online at YouTube |
L i n k s
browse the Woody Guthrie Music Store {35 albums} at Amazon
Woody Guthrie Center? Museum [est. 2013], 102 E. Reconciliation Way in Tulsa, OK
the W.G.C. features state of the art exhibits, extensive outreach and education programs, and concerts to bring Woody's legacy to Tulsans
and those who make the pilgrimage to what is a destination for Woody Guthrie fans worldwide.
Woody Guthrie Folk Music Center in Pampa, Texas: Provides insight into his early life and career.
Woody Guthrie Folk Festival [est. 1998 - July 2025 is #27] in Okemah, Oklahoma
official website •
entry at Wikipedia
here on the music legend Woody Guthrie [1912-67] Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
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on Page 2: top of page • works about Woody Guthrie • movies, plays, other media •
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