Woody Guthrie

Howie Richmond (1917-2012): Music Publishing Pioneer With a Big Heart

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Traffic, Howie Richmond, Pink Floyd, Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Carl Sigman, Charles Aznavour, Anthony Newley, Pete Seeger, Johnny Mercer, Guy Lombardo, Shel Silverstein, Howie Richmond Dead, Video, Entertainment News

You may not know the name Howie Richmond, but without him, it's likely you'd have never gotten to know the music of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly and many other essential figures in American and European popular music.

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It's Official: Downtown Gets A Woody Guthrie Square

AP | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Woody Guthrie Square Celebration, Woody Guthrie Celebration, Woody Guthrie, Downtown LA Woody Guthrie, Downtown La, This Land Is Your Land, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- This square is his square. An intersection in downtown Los Angeles will now bear the name of Woody Guthrie as the city celebrates the ...

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Woody Guthrie's Los Angeles

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.10.2012

Surely if Guthrie -- best known for "This Land Is Your Land," often considered America's alternative national anthem -- were alive today, he'd be writing songs about families fighting bank foreclosures, university students protesting tuition increases, workers organizing and people mobilizing for immigrants rights.

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Celebrating Woody Guthrie: Chatting With Arlo Guthrie & Colin Gilmore, Plus a New Multitudes Video Exclusive and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Colin Gilmore, Arlo Guthrie, Liz Phair, Pete Seeger, Will Johnson, The Animals, Woody Guthrie, Sarah Lee & Johnny, Jay Farrar, Nora Guthrie, Yim Yames, Folk, Cyndi Lauper, The Rondos, Bruce Springsteen, Anders Parker, Video, Entertainment News

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Springsteen, Glenn Beck and Tom Joad

Craig Werner | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Glenn Beck, Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Bruce Springsteen, College News

With "Born in the U.S.A." Springsteen is entering into a dialogue with the American public, asking them about Vietnam, "Is this what you want our country to be associated with? Is this really the America we live in? Can we do better?"

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Grammytech 4: A Conversation With Geoff Emerick, Plus Brooklyn's Leland Sundries (Exclusive Streamer)

Mike Ragogna | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Ken Dodd, Nick Loss-Eaton, The Beatles, Robin Zander, Abbey Road Studios, Paul McCartney, George Martin, Cheap Track, Woody Guthrie, Leland Sundries, Geoff Emerick, Matt Monro, Entertainment News

On February 21st, Leland Sundries' new EP, The Foundry, will be released, featuring Nick Loss-Eaton on guitar, banjo, harmonium, harmonica, and vocals.

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Marta Eggerth, Operetta Superstar, Turning 100

Michael Sigman | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Marjan Kiepura, Georg Solti, Robert Stolz, Oscar Straus, Operetta, Franz Lehar, Perry Como, Gustav Mahler, Woody Guthrie, Jan Kiepura, Marta Eggerth, Judy Garland, Fritz Kreisler, Video, Arts News

There's no denying either the sheer beauty of Eggerth's singing or the overwhelming accomplishments of a (so far) 90-year career.

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My Woody Guthrie-Inspired Resolution

Vicky Shorr | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Woody Guthrie, New Year, New-Years-2012, Culture News

My New Year's resolutions are usually elaborate and abstract. I won't be lazy. I will confront my demons. I will take up yoga. Sleep more, or was it less? Read Proust. But this year it's quite simple. I resolve to no longer use the term "Trailer Trash." Ever again.

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Woody Guthrie's Archives To Move From Daughter's House To This Foundation

AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Woody Guthrie Archive, Video, Woody Guthrie Archives, Woody Guthrie Oklahoma, Woody Guthrie, Oklahoma Foundation, Culture News

OKLAHOMA CITY — Woody Guthrie's writings, recordings and artwork will land in his native state after an Oklahoma foundation bought the collectio...

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Celebrate a Fantastic Klezmatic Hanukkah

Tom Teicholz | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Klezmer, Chava Allberstein, Joshua Nelson, Chanukkah, Town Hall, Lorin Sklamberg, The Grammys, Jewish Music, Woody Guthrie, Yiddish Music, Hanukkah, Frank London, Itzhak Pearlman, Disney Hall, Yiddish, Klezmatics, Yivo, Los Angeles News

On Dec. 19, as part of their 25th anniversary tour, the Klezmatics will perform at Walt Disney Concert Hall for a Chanukah concert featuring both their well-known and new repertoire.

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Wildlands Are Your Lands

Michael Brune | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Wildlands, Woody Guthrie, Koch Brothers, Peabody Energy, Outdoors, Kevin McCarthy, Exxon Mobil, Green News

Woody Guthrie put it best when he sang, "This land is your land." Until, that is, someone steals it from you.

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FringeFest NYC #1: Woody Guthrie, Soldiers, Sexy Students and Lennon

Michael Giltz | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Off-Broadway, Theater, Plays, Musicals, Musical Theater, Fringefest, John Lennon, Woody Guthrie, Entertainment News

FringeFest NYC is our response to the Edinburgh Fringe Fest. This year it features almost 200 plays, musicals and dance pieces scattered throughout NYC over 16 days.

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On the Culture Front: Newport Folk Festival

Chris Kompanek | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: The Decemberists, Fort Adams State Park, Chris Thile, Music Festival, Pete Seeger, Colin Meloy, Newport Folk Festival, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, New York News

There's an aura around the Newport Folk Festival that intrigues me -- this is the place after all where Bob Dylan was booed off the stage for going electric -- so I decided to check it out this year.

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Scars On 45's New Video and Download, Plus Chatting with Vanessa Carlton, Dan Bern and David Bromberg

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Mavis Staples, Ron Fair, Phil Ochs, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Amy Helm, Levon Helm, Steely Dan, Woody Guthrie, Counting Crows, David Bromberg, Dan Bern, Tim O'Brien, Cunliffe Merriwether, Adam Duritz, My Morning Jacket, Larry Campbell, Elvis Costello, Stevie Nicks, Ted Leone, Vince Gill, George Harrison, Joe Radcliffe, Dr. John, The McGarrigle Sisters, Patrick Hallahan, Stephen Hawkings, Vanessa Carlton, Steve Osborne, Paul Siebel, Miley Cyrus, Quitting Science, Los Lobos, Merle Haggard, Widespread Panic, John Hiatt, Byron Isaacs, Link Wray, Carly Simon, Ahmet Ertegun, Gary Nicholson, Willie Nelson, Get HIm to the Greek, A Brief History of Time, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Richard Adams, Mark Moss, Bob Dylan, John Hill, Gary White, Keb' Mo', Stephen Jenkins, Glenn Patscha, Dick Gregory, Jay Unger, Jimmy Iovine, Peter Ecklund, George Jones, Jerry Scheff, The Butcher Brothers, Phoebe Snow, Watership Down, Bruce Springsteen, Electar, Ollabelle, Entertainment News

Here's the latest video by the Chop Shop Records' act Scars On 45, the title track to their Give Me Something EP.

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Father's Day at Citi Field

Alan Singer | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Iraq War, New York Mets, Baseball, God Bless America, Irving Berlin, Citi Field, Woody Guthrie, Father's Day, September 11th, National Anthem, Afghanistan War, New York News

I spent Father's Day afternoon with a friend at Citi Field in Queens catching the Mets versus the Angels in inter-league play. It was a beautiful day;...

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Raging Against The Machine: Tom Morello's Nightwatchman Persona

Michael Gilmour | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine, Sacred Sounds, Religion and Music, Guitarist, Protest Songs, Labor Unions, Civil Disobedience, Songwriter, Revolution, Rock and Roll, Protest Music, Tom Morello Nightwatchman, Woody Guthrie, Religion News

With all the rhetorical force and righteous anger of the prophets, the Nightwatchman's biblically literate activism rails against the individuals and institutions responsible for the plight of the needy

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The Political Bob Dylan

Peter Dreier | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Pete Seeger, The Times They Are a-Changin, Folk Music, Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Protest Music, Blowin in the Wind, Politics News

Bob Dylan's off-and-on engagement with politics is intriguing. But his peace and justice songs have had a life of their own.

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Treme & Beyond: Conversations with Steve Earle, The Belle Brigade and Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Dvorak, Csny, Arlo Guthrie, Aaron Arntz, Dwight Yoakam, Bram Inscore, Alison Krauss, Andy Cabic, Treme, Steve Earle, Paul Simon, The Belle Brigade, The Beach Boys, The Everely Brothers, Woody Guthrie, Thom Monohan, Joan Baez, Ink Spots, Beatles, Bill Mumy, Johnny Irion, Jo Hill, Little Feat, Harlan Silver, Gary Louris, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Katrina, Allison Moorer, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Kimmel, Harley Watt, Babylon 5, Mike Finnigan, Hank Williams, The Byrds, T-Bone Burnett, Simon & Garfunkel, Thomas Steinbeck, Johnny Cash, Liuzza's, Hoyt Axton, John Williams, Jay Gruska, The Jayhawks, Mark Olsen, Monsanto, Emmylou Harris, Townes Van Zandt, June Carter, Robert Plant, Lowell George, Randy Newman, Matthew Wilder, Blake Mills, Gram Parsons, Barbara Gruska, Joni Mitchell, Ethan Gruska, James Taylor, Allen Toussaint, Low Rider Music, Tipitinas, Nillson, Entertainment News

Steve Earle spoke to me from Liuzza's in New Orleans, where he had just ordered a Po Boy, and where he is currently filming the second season of HBO's Treme.

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It's 'Take-Our-Country-Back' Time Again

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Real Americans, Woody Guthrie, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich 2012, Real America, Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Politics News

During the 2010 elections, the heyday of the Tea Party, we were treated to some soaring oratory by real, "take-our-country-back" Americans: Those real...

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Why Do People Sing? Alan Lomax and His Science of Song

Bob Moses | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Music, Jazz, John Szwed, Jelly Roll Morton, Folk Music, Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Woody Guthrie, Books News

The search for answers to deceptively simple questions drove Alan Lomax to wander America -- and eventually the world. A new Lomax biography follows his journey.

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David Amram at 80

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Amram, Odetta, John Ventimiglia, Joe Papp, Dizzy Gillestie, Frank Mccourt, Max Roach, Woody Guthrie, John Frankenheimer, Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Maurice Peress, Tokasin Ghosthorse, Jack Kerouac. Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Entertainment News

No one can believe David Amram is now 80. Yes, you can do the math. But, to see him cavorting about the ample stage in front of a packed Symphony Spac...

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Here's a Way to Never Be Unemployed

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

Many Americans are maxing out on their unemployment benefits amid cries from Republicans that they're lazy bums who should get a job. Sure, there's on...

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It's Time to Remember Tom Bradley (Part 2)

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

The story of Bradley's record-breaking five mayoral terms and central role in L.A.'s transformation to world-class status is far more than an overdue bit of historical housekeeping.

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The 50 Most Influential Progressives of the 20th Century

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John L. Lewis, Louis Brandeis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, The Nation, W.E.B. Dubois, Frances Perkins, Roger Baldwin, Margaret Sanger, 50 Most Influential Progressives, Lincoln Steffens, Eugene Debs, Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Norman Thomas, Florence Kelley, Earl Warren, I.F. Stone, Ella Baker, Walter Reuther, Woody Guthrie, Jackie Robinson, Harry Hay, Thurgood Marshall, A.J. Musge, Rachel Carson, Sidney Hillman, Henry Wallace, A. Philip Randolph, Saul Alinsky, Paul Robeson, Politics News

We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history.

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Tomorrow's Children: A Conversation With Pete Seeger, Plus Chatting With Bill Frisell

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AP Carter, Eyvind Kang, ECM Records, Winston Churchill, Pete Seeger, Blind WIllie Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Paul Motian, Rudy Royston, Teddy Randazzo, Nikita Kruschev, The Weavers, Judy Collins, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bill Frisell, Dar Williams, Rutherford B Hayes, Franklyn Delanore Roosevelt, Stax Records, Benny Goodman, Elvis Costello, The Byrds, Theodor Roosevelt, Stephen Foster, Burt Bacharach, Genghis Khan, The Staple Singers, Fantasy Records, Kurt Vonnegut, David Bernz, Fantasy Studios, Pat Metheny, Fdr, Reuben James, Herbie Hancock, Terry Udell, Entertainment News

After years of activism on behalf of the average Joe and Jane, this 91-year-old national treasure still swings a heavy hammer, and his thoughtful insights are presented here just in time for Labor Day.

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