Woody Guthrie

A man's life lived out of a suitcase, Woody Guthrie's My Dusty Road , inaugurates the new Woody Guthrie Legacy Series on Rounder Records. Read More

November 20, noon to 1 p.m. Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse, 333 Las Vegas Boulevard South. 229-3515. Read More

Hobos are not bums, he was often quick to point out, but "people who rode the rails for a year or two to get their act together then went back to rejoin the rest of the world." Read More

When Arlo Guthrie, and his extended family, took the stage Tuesday night at the State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., the politically themed folk singer came full of both songs and stories. Read More

One of the founding fathers of American folk music, Woody Guthrie has inspired some of the greatest songwriters alive today. Read More

In April 1944, the then little-known Woody Guthrie – back from doing his bit for the war effort with the US Merchant Marines – made a marathon series of recordings in New York for Moe Asch and Herbert Harris, respective heads of the Folkways and Stinson record labels. Read More

Yes, Arlo Guthrie's two-part "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" is 18 minutes and 20 seconds long; yes, that is also the length of the missing footage from the Watergate tapes. Read More

Ani DiFranco will receive the Woody Guthrie Award for being a voice of positive social change at the 13th annual Guthrie Awards Dinner on Thursday, October 8th in New York City. New York, NY (Billboard Publicity Wire) October 8, 2009 -- On Thursday, October 8th in New York City, Ani DiFranco will receive the Woody Guthrie Award for being a voice of positive social change at the 13th annual Guthrie Awards Dinner. Read More

Guthrie songs are the legacy of his own transformation from a casual Oklahoma racist to a committed civil rights activist working and singing with the likes of Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Paul Robeson. Read More

A rash of bank foreclosures drove families from their homes. Read More