Woody Guthrie was born into the Dust Bowl's devastation and displacement. His signature song, taught in classrooms and sung at protests, offers an expansive, inclusive idea of what home can be.

Woody Guthrie has been having a blowout of a 100th birthday party, and it’s lasted all year long. Forty-five years after his death in 1967, you can suddenly hear him everywhere. Woody Guthrie ...

Woody Guthrie would have been 100 years old on Saturday. The singer and songwriter wrote "This Land Is Your Land," among thousands of other songs. Even though Guthrie died almost 45 years ago, his ...

The nonprofit Woody Guthrie Coalition organized the first WoodyFest in 1998 and for 26 years "has tirelessly worked to keep Woody’s message and music alive," said Guthrie granddaughter Anna ...

Woody Guthrie Lester Balog. Although he’s most commonly associated with the plains of Oklahoma, Woody Guthrie spent the last 27 of his life in country’s biggest urban area.

Woody Guthrie had already built himself a career by the late 1930s and early 1940s, particularly after moving to New York and gaining prominence in the New York City folk scene along with Pete Seeger.

When Woody Guthrie died in 1967, he left behind an enormous cache of unpublished lyrics and prose, which has resulted in an exceptionally rich posthumous career. Bob Dylan, who should know, has ...

Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life by Gustavus Stadler. Penguin. An outspoken American hero, Woody Guthrie composed “This Land Is Your Land” among countless other folk songs and collaborations ...