Woody Guthrie - Legacy

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912–October 3, 1967), known as Woody Guthrie was a American folk musician noted for his many protest songs and left-wing political views. He is best known for "This Land is Your Land." Woody Guthrie - Life and career. Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, on July 14, 1912. His parents named him after Woodrow Wilson, who was in the same year elected president in the 1912 election. At age 19, he left home for Texas, where he met and married his first wife, Mar ...

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By the time of Guthrie's death, his work had been discovered by a new audience, introduced to them in part through Bob Dylan, who visited Guthrie in the last years of his life and described him as "my last hero." Dylan later went on to write Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie, a five-page tribute, and included "Song to Woody" on his first, eponymous album (1962). In 1964, Phil Ochs's debut album, All the News That's Fit to Sing, included the song "Bound for Glory," a tribute to Guthrie and a criticism of revisionism and ignorance among modern audiences who preferred to forget some of Guthrie's more cont ...

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Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, on July 14, 1912. His parents named him after Woodrow Wilson, who was in the same year elected president in the 1912 election. At age 19, he left home for Texas, where he met and married his first wife, Mary Jennings, with whom he had three children. He left Texas and his family with the Dust Bowl, following the Okies to California. The poverty he saw on these early trips affected him greatly, and many of his songs are concerned with the conditions faced by the working class. A lifelong socialist and trade unionist, he also contributed a regular column, "Woody Sez," to the Daily ...

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