Breaking News Music Review: Jonatha Brooke Recalls Woody Guthrie at Allen Room - Review - Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:45:08 GMT
The concert and the album reveal the passionately romantic side of Guthrie that has been obscured by his image as the itinerant left-wing spokesman for the common man, nicknamed "the Dustbowl Troubadour."
Oklahoma Native Son WOODY GUTHRIE (1912-1967) - Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:36:52 GMT
In a time span of approximately seventeen years Oklahoma's most creative native son wrote two autobiographical novels, numerous essays and articles, more than one thousand songs and poems, and hundreds of letters.
Woody Guthrie, more relevant than ever - Great Recession - Salon.com - Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:28:26 GMT
What he wrote and sang about caused the oil potentates and preachers who ran Oklahoma to consider him radical and disreputable.
Woody Guthrie at 100 - Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:24:50 GMT
The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa and New Hampshire, and all eyes are now on South Carolina.
Music: Newswire: Jim James corrals other songwriters for Woody Guthrie-inspired album, New Multitudes - Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:48:52 GMT
Nora Guthrie, son of legendary folk singer Woody, recently invited four singer-songwriters-Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo, Will Johnson of Centro-matic, and Anders Parker of Varnaline-to look at her father's old notebooks, napkins, and anything else with lyrics scribbled on them.