Guthrie material in recent years, and they will no doubt continue to generate a Permanent home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have been the source of all the new Woody Guidance of Woody’s daughter Nora Guthrie, will soon move from New York to a Your Land.” But these songs are just a tiny taste of his creative output, asīecame clear during my visit to the Woody Guthrie Archives, which preserve someģ,000 song lyrics as well as a vast collection of journals, letters, poems,īook manuscripts, drawings, and watercolors. (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),” the irresistible kids’ songs “Riding in My Car”Īnd “All Work Together,” and of course the folk national anthem “This Land Is Got No Home,” the migrant workers’ tales “Pastures of Plenty” and “Deportee
Including such indelible songs as the Dust Bowl ballads “Do Re Mi” and “I Ain’t Meanwhile, the three-disc box set Woody at 100 (Smithsonian Folkways) introduced six unreleased original songs sung by the man himself, from the 1939 recordings “Skid Row Serenade” and “Them Big City Ways” to the sweet lullaby “Goodnight Little Cathy.”Īlready produced an extraordinary body of work during the 1930s and ’40s, Jonatha Brooke dug into Guthrie’s writings to bring us The Works Jay Farrar of Son Volt teamed up with Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and Yim Yames to create New Multitudes the Rob Wasserman–produced Note of Hope included contributions from Jackson Browne, Ani DiFranco, Lou Reed, and many more and the project that started this wave of posthumous collaboration, Billy Bragg and Wilco’s Grammy-nominated Mermaid Avenue, was released in an expanded edition with a third volume of songs. In the past year or so, we’ve seen no fewer than four albums of new Guthrie songs, on which his previously unpublished words are set to music by a small army of fellow songwriters. So we're asking you to give just $1 (or whatever you can afford) right now.įor a guy just past his 100th birthday, who in fact died 45 years ago, Woody Guthrie has been remarkably active in the songwriting business lately. Hey, fellow guitarist! Did you know 99.9% of visitors to this site will scroll past this message without making a contribution? Many plan to pledge later, but then forget.