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		Woody Guthrie was the most important American folk music artist of the first half of the 20th century, in part because he turned out to be such a major influence on the popular music of the second half of the 20th century, a period when he himself was largely inactive.
		Unbeknown to her, Nora Guthrie was beginning to suffer from the mental and physical effects of the rare, hereditary, and incurable condition known as Huntington's disease, the onset of which tends to come in middle age, with a steady decline thereafter, resulting in a loss of mental control and muscle control, eventually leading to death.
		Guthrie had met Steinbeck in California, and in March 1940 he was invited to perform at a benefit for migrant workers sponsored by Steinbeck and emceed by Geer at the Forrest Theater, where Tobacco Road was running.
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	Woody Guthrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912–October 3, 1967), known as Woody Guthrie was an influential and prolific American folk musician noted for his identification with the common man, the poor and the downtrodden, and for his abhorrence of fascism and exploitation.
		Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, on July 14, 1912.
		Guthrie originally wrote and sang anti-war songs with the Almanac Singers, but eventually he and they, along with the Communist milieu with which they were associated, joined the anti-fascist cause.
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	Woody Guthrie Biography
		Woody was the second-born son to Charles and Nora Belle Guthrie.
		Woody Guthrie continued to write songs and perform with the Almanac Singers, the politically radical singing group of the late 1940s, some of whose members would later re-form as the Weavers, the most commercially successful and influential folk music group of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
		It was the first major conference on the legacy of Woody Guthrie complete with a photo exhibition, lectures, films, and two benefit concerts, which were held in support of the Woody Guthrie Archives.
	www.woodyguthrie.org /biography.htm (1549 words)

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		A few months before his fifteenth birthday, Guthrie had to become self-sufficient, for his father was severely burned, and his mother was committed to the Oklahoma hospital for the insane, where she later died.
		Guthrie used and/or adapted melodies from his vast storehouse of songs for most of his tunes; he was a poet, not a tunesmith.
		Writing was an obsession with Woody Guthrie, for words rolled on to paper as easily as speech poured from his mouth almost in a stream-of-consciousness style.
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	Woody Guthrie: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Woody Guthrie [+] was the most important American folk music artist of the first half of the 20th century.
		Guthrie made some recordings for RCA in 1940, but much of his work was issued on the small Folkways label.
		Guthrie also composed a body of children's music toward the end of his performing career in the early '50s, when he was raising a family with his wife Marjorie.
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		Guthrie continued to write songs and perform with the Almanac Singers, the politically radical singing group of the late 1940s, some of whose members would later re-form as the Weavers, perhaps the most commercially successful and influential folk group of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
		Woody and Marjorie were married in 1946 and settled in Coney Island, New York.
		Although the corpus of original Woody Guthrie songs, or as Woody preferred "people's songs," are, perhaps, his most recognized contribution to American culture, the stinging honesty, humor, and wit found even in his most vernacular prose writings exhibit Woody's fervent belief in social, political, and spiritual justice.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=12 (647 words)

	Woody Guthrie
		It was Guthrie who, in the Thirties and Forties, transformed the folk ballad into a vehicle for social protest and observation.
		By mid-decade, Guthrie began experiencing bouts of depression and disorientation that signaled the onset of Huntington’s Chorea (the genetic disorder that had afflicted his mother).
		January 20, 1968: A tribute concert to folksinger Woody Guthrie is held at New York’s Carnegie Hall.
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	Woody Guthrie: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"this land is your land" is one of the united statess most famous folk songs, written by woody guthrie in 1940....
		Bound for glory is a 1976 biographical film which tells the story of folk singer woody guthrie....
		Arlo guthrie is an american folk singer who is the son of folk singer and composer woody guthrie....
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	Guthrie, Woody - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Guthrie, Woody (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Guthrie left home at 15 to travel the USA by train.
		His son Arlo Guthrie (1947– ), also a folk singer, is best known for the Vietnam-draft epic ‘Alice's Restaurant’ (1967;; filmed 1969).
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	Woody Guthrie at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, on July 14, 1912, the year his namesake was elected President.
		Guthrie originally wrote and sang anti-war songs with the Almanac Signers, but eventually he and they, along with the Communist milieu with which they were associated, joined the anti-fascist cause -- Guthrie famously wrote the slogan "This Machine Kills Fascists" on his guitar.
		After researching the lyrics at the Woody Guthrie Archive in New York City, Bragg worked with the band Wilco to record 40 tracks, a number of which were released on the album Mermaid Avenue, followed by Mermaid Avenue II.
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	American Masters . Woody Guthrie \| PBS
		Fire was to dog Woody, boy and man. A kerosene lamp shattered - the OKEMAH LEDGER reported it as an accident, while folks in town whispered otherwise - and flames consumed his beloved older sister Clara, the one who called him "Woodblock," when the boy was just months shy of his seventh birthday.
		Woody was not yet 15 when his mother hurled a kerosene lamp at a dozing Charley, searing his chest from neck to navel.
		Guthrie would give away his day's wages to a migrant family when his own children had to rely on an aunt for dinner.
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	Woody Guthrie @ eFolkMusic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma, the second-born son to Charles and Nora Guthrie.
		Woody's identification with "outsider" status would become part and parcel of his political and social positioning, one which gradually worked its way into his songwriting, as evident in his Dust Bowl Ballads such as I Ain't Got No Home, Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad, Talking Dust Bowl Blues, Tom Joad and Hard Travelin'.
		This relationship provided Woody a level of domestic stability and encouragement which he had previously not known, enabling him to complete and publish his first novel, Bound for Glory, in 1943.
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	Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Balladeer
		Woody Guthrie (1912- 1967) was born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in Okemah, OK. His father was a land speculator whose fortunes fluctuated with the oil booms.
		Woody's mother suffered a number of breakdowns before the family was forced to send her to a asylum where she would spend the rest of her life.
		Woody always claimed that his family was responsible for all the traits that he for which he became legendary.
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	Rambling Round: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
		Woody was the third of the couple's five children, but Charley had no trouble supporting his growing family.
		Afterward, Woody noted, "my mother's nerves gave away like an overloaded bridge." She even had occasional violent episodes and may have set Charley on fire in 1927, a situation that resulted in a long and painful convalescence for him and a commitment to the state mental hospital in Norman for her.
		Woody was also writing his autobiographical novel Bound for Glory, and it and his fourth child appeared at roughly the same time in early 1943.
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	Woody Guthrie:woody guthrie biography:woody guthrie images:woody guthrie merchandise:woody guthrie cds,videos,t-shirts
		Woody Guthrie was born in the year that Woodrow Wilson was elected President, and since Charley and Nora Guthrie were strong Democrats they named their son after him: Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, born in Okemah, Oklahoma on July 14, 1912.
		Woody was actually drafted into the army at age 32 on VE Day and was discharged in the fall, so he never saw combat.
		Woody noticed that their names were not even known to the reporters.
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	Woody Guthrie museum
		Guthrie was plenty more: social crusader, essayist, painter, environmentalist, recording artist, and influence to a generation of folk-rock artists from Dylan to Bruce Springsteen and more.
		The bulk of the Guthrie archives came from the singer's business manager, Harold Leventhal, who was given numerous boxes of Guthrie's doodlings, musings and unpublished lyrics by the second of Guthrie's three wives, Marjorie, in 1961.
		For Nora Guthrie, who was 17 when her father died, organizing the archives allowed her to get to know her father, who had been ill all her life.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/guthrie-museum.html (942 words)

	upstatebeat.com: Why Woody Guthrie Matters
		The reason Woody Guthrie still matters today, the reason the voice of the folk singer still resonates decades later, is because the universal truths he sang about are still driving the social and political realities of our real-time world of the 21st century.
		That is the spirit of Woody Guthrie, captured by John Steinbeck and translated memorably to the screen by Johnson, Fonda and the director John Ford.
		The question of whether Woody Guthrie still matters is not even a question to them, and their collection of love songs, union songs, coal mining songs and just plain fun songs reflect his legacy.
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	TheMoMI.org -- Exhibition: Bound For Glory: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie
		The Smithsonian traveling Guthrie exhibition premiered June 1999 at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles and is scheduled to stop at other major institutions and museums across the country through 2002 (Woody Guthrie Traveling Exhibition Schedule).
		Woody's prolific repertoire includes over 3,000 songs such as "This Land Is Your Land," "Red Wine," "Jesus Christ," "Pastures of Plenty," and "Do-Re-Me." In Guthrie's autobiography, Bound For Glory, Pete Seeger said, "His songs are deceptively simple.
		McCarthy Era, Guthrie was one of hundreds of artists and writers who were fllisted by the House of Un-American Activities Committee for their left-leaning political beliefs.
	www.themomi.org /museum/Guthrie/index_800.html (1132 words)

	Woody Guthrie
		Woody Guthrie himself had long since been silenced by Huntington's chorea, a hereditary brain-wasting disease, leaving a hole in the heart of American music that would never be filled, and Dylan may have been the only person present at Newport that day with sense enough to know it.
		Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.
		Woody was born in one of the most desolate places in America, just in time to come of age in the worst period in our history.
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	Woody Guthrie Biography
		For the last 15 years of that life, while folk music became more and more popular in America, Guthrie was hospitalized with Huntington’s disease, the same genetic nerve disorder that had sent his mother into a state mental hospital when he was a boy.
		“Woody spent his life, like a lot of us, searching for things to love,” a friend once said, calling him “a little guy sloping down a dusty road, looking for something he couldn’t name.” Guthrie himself felt his best songs came to him when he was walking down a road.
		Woody Guthrie was “the original folk hero,” said the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when he became one of its first 50 inductees in 1988 (same year as The Beatles).
	www.americanswhotellthetruth.org /pgs/portraits/Woody_Guthrie.html (533 words)

	Folk Music 101 - Major American Artists - Woody Guthrie - Folk Music
		Guthrie fell ill to a congenital disease and spent his final years in a New Jersey hospital.
		Woody's Children is a common way of talking about the generation of songwriters who followed Woody in writing songs about social justice.
		Take a virtual trip with me through the Woody Guthrie Archives via my photoessay on the traveling exhibit when it was at the Museum of the City of New York in April 2000.
	www.balladtree.com /folk101/bio_woodyguthrie.htm (770 words)

	This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Guthrie and Seeger both sang in the tradition of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), a radical labor group of the early twentieth century.
		In Steinbeck, Guthrie saw a man who "felt in his heart and knew in his head that us Okies was a lookin' for 'A Living WITH Labor.'" <23> A viewing of the movie Grapes of Wrath moved Guthrie to compose.
		Guthrie explained the purpose of the Almanacs, "Our idea is to bring songs and fun and serious entertainment into the union hall so as to make it a better, livelier, peppier, and a lot more sensible place to come to than a pool hall, gambling game, or horse racing board." <32>
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	Woody Guthrie
		Woody Guthrie was born July 14, 1912 and died on October 3, 1967.
		In early May of 1941, Woody Guthrie was employed by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) on the Columbia River.
		When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs, On the bottom of one page appeared the following:
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	Metroactive Music \| Woody Guthrie
		As for Guthrie himself, Carter was all for him: "I was playing Woody Guthrie's songs before I even knew who he was." Carter meant he sympathized with that the feeling of Guthrie's music—the generosity of spirit, the humor, the longing for a place in this world.
		Guthrie liked to work his Okieness during his many years in New York and Los Angeles; he cultivated the image of an easygoing but shrewd Western man. Privately, he was flamboyant, his journals crammed with mad purple love letters.
		I have deep confidence that Woody Guthrie would have seen through the hard times in America 2004 and would know exactly what was going on; that he would have recognized the culture war as one more rich man's conflict being fought by the poor.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.18.04/guthrie-0434.html (5273 words)

	People's Weekly World - Woody Guthrie: ‘This Machine Kills Fascists’
		Guthrie, by virtue of his heritage and formidable skill, established the connection between pre-existing folk songs and one’s own contemporary issue-oriented topical music.
		Woody’s song was a shock to Ed Robbin, a California Communist Party leader who had a radio show that aired just after Woody’s.
		Woody had dedicated his life to the cause of socialism and the role of the cultural worker.
	www.pww.org /article/view/3927/1/176 (985 words)

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