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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

This year, folk legend Woody Guthrie would have been 100 years old. So last night, a suitably impressive cast of pickers, warblers and icons gathered in Washington, D.C. to “blow out the candles,” as ...

Woody Guthrie, shown here in the 1940s, created great lines in songs and drawings. Bettmann / Corbis; Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives And Collections, SI / Copyright ...

OKEMAH, Oklahoma (Reuters) - For a man who has been dead since 1967, it has been a good year for folk singer Woody Guthrie, who would have turned 100 on Saturday. New books on Guthrie have been ...

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 ...

“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 ...

U2 will be honored with the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize during an Oct. 21 ceremony at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Ok., and group members Bono and the Edge will be on hand to accept. The award is given ...

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, ...

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 ...