Woody Guthrie, shown here in the 1940s, created great lines in songs and drawings. Bettmann / Corbis; Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives And Collections, SI / Copyright ...
Editor’s Note: Woody Guthrie would have turned 110 today. To honor the legendary songwriter, we look back on his little-known history as a writer of Hanukkah songs. For 20 years, I was a pop music ...
Without Woody Guthrie, there would be no Pete Seeger and no Dylan, Donovan or Byrds. There would be no “This Land is Your Land," “If I Had a Hammer," “Turn, Turn, Turn," and no Dust Bowl Ballads. The ...
I'm prone to the occasional rant about how much I dislike the movement folk music of the 1960s—its lack of subtlety, its odd mix of the earnestly humorless and the cornball, its endless verses of ...