Woody Guthrie was born on July 14th, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. Over the decades, his songs have run around the world like a fast train on a well oiled track. They’ve become the folk song standards of ...

Folk artist Woody Guthrie has been heralded at gatherings across the country this year in celebration of his 100th birthday. The culminating event occurs this week in a concert featuring renowned ...

The great American troubadour Woody Guthrie, who wrote our “second national anthem,” “This Land Is Your Land,” would have turned 100 this Saturday, had Huntington’s chorea not claimed him in 1967, ...

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In 1951, his health worsening, Woody Guthrie flipped the switch on his new T-100 reel-to-reel tape recorder to lay down several songs for his publisher. His days as a recording artist were done. This ...

Nearly 80 years after Woody Guthrie wrote the poem “Deportee” (also known as “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos”), his sole recording of the piece performed as a song is being released to commemorate his ...

Director James Mangold's biopic A Complete Unknown chronicles the beginning of Bob Dylan's legendary career and features other notable figures, such as fellow musician Woody Guthrie. Timothée Chalamet ...

“I felt like there was something that needed to be said in this moment,” says Anna Canoni. The person to say it, however, turned out to be her grandfather, Woody Guthrie, who died in 1967. The new ...

For anyone who follows the news, the story will sound eerily familiar: migrant workers rounded up by immigration officials, put on a plane and transported to a deportation center and, ultimately, ...