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He inspired generations of singer-songwriters from Pete Seeger to Bruce Springsteen. Now on display in New York City: a new exhibit devoted to the legendary Woody Guthrie. He sang a song of America … ...

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 ...

Refugees wandering and unwelcome, environmental disasters wrecking the land, poverty pushing people to the margins — Woody Guthrie was responding to the hardships of the Great Depression, but he may ...

It’s one of the saddest hit songs to grace American music: “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos).” ...

The Radical Voice of Woody Guthrie, a new exhibition that aims to highlight Guthrie’s fight for justice through 12 of his ...

TULSA, Okla. — The Woody Guthrie Center has just announced that the band U2 has been named the honorees of the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize. The Irish rock band will be presented with the award on Tuesday ...

TULSA, Okla. — A new exhibit has moved in at the Woody Guthrie Center: 'My Eye to a Lens: Music Photography of David Gahr. “Every exhibit that we have here at the Woody Guthrie Center, we try to fit ...

Woody Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter and he is a famous Okie! Born on July 14, 1912, as Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, he was raised in Okemah, Okla. He was named after future Pres. Woodrow Wilson ...

Somehow, the poisonous American anger that swirled around Guthrie never corrupted that innate creative optimism. Empathy was his reliable muse. The public figure dominates the multimedia installations ...

Woody Guthrie, Author, illus. by Marla Frazee. Little, Brown/Tingley $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-07203-8 Even when the characters are simply lazing on a front porch, Frazee's pictures hum with energy ...

On the first Sunday of February this year, during one of the most-watched musical events in broadcast history, a pop star quoted the words of one of America's best-known folk singers. "This land is ...