Woody Guthrie

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Silent Plight?

Michael Sigman | Posted 12.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Kenny G, Mannheim Steamroller, Brahms, John Cage, Mariah Carey, Bob Dylan, Christmas, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Christmas Music, I Ching, Steve Earle, Scriabin, Woody Guthrie, Entertainment News

It's that time of year again. As you navigate the mall, have you started to feel that all you want for Christmas is to avoid Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas"?

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Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes

Peter Dreier | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Throughout her life, Bess Lomax Hawes was a political radical who fought for a better future, but who also understood the importance of preserving the many cultural traditions of America's past.

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It Takes The Village: Interviews with Shelby Lynne, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Timmins, John Oates, Amos Lee, Rachael Yamagata, Steve Berlin, and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Amos Lee, The Decemberists, Leftover Salmon, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Terry, Los Lobos, The Lovin' Spoonful, Eric Andersen, Joe Ely, John Sebastian, Chip Taylor, Pete Seeger, Matt Umanov, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Hall & Oates, Brownie McGee, Greenwich Village, Woody Guthrie, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Fred Neil, Joan Baez, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Daryl Hall, Rachael Yamagata, The Duhks, Sixpence None the Richer, Judy Collins, Doc Watson, Marshall Crenshaw, Art Alexakis, Bleecker Street, Bruce Hornsby, Lucinda Williams, Cowboy Junkies, Jerry Garcia, Dave Van Ronk, Suze Rotolo, Drew Emmitt, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, This Mortal Coil, Shelby Lynne, Rhino Records, Steve Berlin, Entertainment News, Rocco DeLuca, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, John Oates, Richie Havens, 429 Records, Entertainment News

It's a little surprising that until now, no one has put together a tribute album to folk's fertile days in New York's Greenwich Village.

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An Interview with Dan Zanes, Plus Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson, Smokey & Santana, and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

With the new DVD release The Fine Friends Are Here!, Dan Zanes and Friends present colorful music and images that are not just for children, but also for the big kid in all of us.

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Asking President Obama for a Job

Gregory Daurer | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Unemployment, Works Progress Administration, Medical Marijuana, Woody Guthrie, Job Search, Eric Holder, Colorado, Denver, Denver News

Things still aren't looking good here in Colorado. As for the stimulus, the keg must have been turned off before the dram trickled down to me.

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The Role of Song in Advancing Health Care Reform

Peter Yarrow | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pete Seeger, Health Care Debate, Woody Guthrie, Song, Health Care, This Land Is Your Land, Politics News

Let us sing, not to confront or protest the absence of an equitable health care system, rather to affirm our commitment to allowing all Americans the right of affordable medical care.

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So Long, It's Been Good to Know You, Senator

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Woody Guthrie, Robert Byrd, Senator Edward Kennedy, John Lewis, Politics News

Troubles in paradise, to be sure, yet Kennedy overcame tragedies and addressed flaws that would have broken or bent most of us.

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An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Inner Circle, The O'Jays, Imogen Heap, The Adventures, Janis Ian, Cate Bros., Rubicon, Daryl Hall & John Oates, The Beach Boys, Woody Guthrie, Eric Burdon, REO Speedwagon, Otis Redding, Now That's What I Call Country, Matt Hires, Mark Schultz, Jack Ingram, Smile Empty Soul, Roy Hargrove, Billy Ocean, Cheap Trick, Rory Gallagher, David Guetta, Stefon Harris & Blackout, Michael Bolton, Queen Latifah, Matisyahu, Robert Glasper, The Roy Hargrove Big Band, Cass Elliot, Neil Diamond, The Casualties, Roberta Gambarini, Patton Oswalt, George Benson, Elvis Presley, Phil Stacey, Tim Buckley, Delores O'Rioran, Carmen Appice, The Mamas & the Papas, Al Jarreau, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Entertainment News, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, The Dukes, Paul Revere & the Raiders, 16 Horsepower, Collective Soul, Fun., Alan O'Day, Pilot, Now That's What I Call Music, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Roy Orbison, The Bloody Beetroots, Felix Da Housecat, Teddy Pendergrass, The Subdudes, James Carter, Adam Ant, Colbie Caillat, Arctic Monkeys, Jeff Golub, Jackie DeShannon, Island Records, Fame, Woodstock, Sounds of Blackness, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Smokie Norful, Irma Thomas, Mew, Tanya Stephens, Brian Bromberg, Willie Nelson, Jack Wagner, The New City Ramblers, Mott the Hoople, Love and Theft, New Releases, Deryl Dodd, Cross Country, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Nat King Cole, Kenny G, Jet, Niti Sawhney, Vander Graaf Generator, Sally Shapiro, John Denver, Jason Aldeean, Smokey Robinson, Taking Woodstock, Vandaveer, Najee, Selah, Needtobreathe, Latoya, Strawbs, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Advocate, Lgbt, Sony Legacy, Verve Records, Roberta Flack, Leonard Bernstein, Grammy, Ang Lee, Atlantic Records, Jerry Wexler, Gramma Awards, Saturday Night Live, Wbai, Wnew, Miami Vice, Dar Williams, Birthers, Fox News, Cher, Teabaggers, Joan Baez, Glen Campbell, Mel Torme, Death Panel, Nina Simone, Entertainment News

Janis Ian is one of the Woodstock era's unsung musical heroes who, just two years prior to the Bethel Bash, shocked our nation with her controversial single "Society's Child."

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Progressives Take Back the Flag

Peter Dreier | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pledge of Allegiance, Patriotism, Independence Day, Progressives, American Flag, Progressive Movement, Woody Guthrie, Fourth of July, Bruce Springsteen, Politics News

Most Americans are unaware that much of our patriotic culture was created by people with decidedly progressive sympathies.

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Nanci Griffith Releases New Album, Plays At The Grammy Museum

Howie Klein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nanci Griffith, Tim McGraw, Odetta, Grammy-Museum, Pete Seeger, Tom Morello, Grammys, Patti Smith, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Entertainment News

The exhibit explores the 200-year history of music and politics in America, assembling over 100 diverse artifacts from government archives, private collections, and myriad musical artists.

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fellow Travelers, James Lileks, Banjo, Joseph Stalin, Barbarossa, Ron Radosh, Pete Seeger, March on Washington, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Nicaragua, Bob Dylan, Mark Steyn, Kingston Trio, World War Two, Yalta, Billy Bragg, Communism, Doc Watson, Mao Zedong, Guitar, Leninism, Joan Baez, Franklin Roosevelt, Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Medgar Evers, Amy Goodman, Entertainment News

As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.

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Create Your Ode to the Financial Crisis

Craig Crawford | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Groucho Marx, Economic Stimulus Package, Woody Guthrie, Great Depression, Politics News

The songs and movies of the 1930's had a unifying effect on the country during the Great Depression. I want to see your contributions about today's crisis.

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An American Tune

Anne Hill | Posted 01.09.2009 | Entertainment

It's one of those weird things, the patriotic hymns of your youth still live in your heart somewhere, despite all the things you learn in the meantime.

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Why Not One Country

Rich Silverstein | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Video, Obama Advertisement, This Land Is Your Land, John Mellencamp, Woody Guthrie, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

Our country is all the "real America," from sea to sea. It's one place and in tough times, it's all the more important to remind ourselves of what we share, rather than what divides us.

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Andrew Rice

Alison Teal | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fred Harris, Andrew Rice, Obama Colorado, Woody Guthrie, Andrew Rice Oklahoma, Barack Obama Polls, Swing States, Oklahoma Politics, Oklahoma Senate Race, Oklahoma Senator, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News

This is the kind of race that can only be won in a total wave year. So if you believe in the wave, this is a place to throw a wish in the water and hope it will wash up on friendly shores.

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Utah Phillips, A Good Man Gone

Toby Barlow | Posted 06.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Springsteen, Homeless, Pete Seeger, Folk Music, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie, Grammy, Tom Waits, Utah Phillips, Music, Entertainment News

Utah Phillips was a great American artist who never stopped thinking, laboring, and singing for the hard-working and the long-suffering of the world.

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"I'm Not There" Director Todd Haynes Dishes On Dylan

Huffington Post | Michelle Kung | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Todd Haynes, I'm Not There, Weinstein Co, Indie Films, Twyla Tharp, Cate Blanchett, Jeff Rosen, Christian Bale, Woody Guthrie, Michelle Williams, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Bob Dylan, Independent Film, Bob Dylan Movie, Entertainment News

Todd Haynes has much to be thankful for this holiday season. Boosted by gushy reviews and positive film fest receptions, I'm Not There, the indie dire...

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