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Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY Screen's and Discusses Woody Guthrie Documentary, "Ain't Got No Home"
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Michael Ricci
On Tuesday, July 14th, at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York about a hundred ticket holders found residence in Peter Frumkin's biographical documentary on Woody Guthrie called “Ain't Got No Home." Opening the evening, which included a discussion from Mr. Frumkin and Guthrie's daughter Nora, Jacob Burn's program director, Brain Ackerman described the initiative of this forefather of American popular song. “He didn't just read the headlines, he found the battle lines of where things were happening and ...
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Woody Guthrie's Music Inspires Americas Dust Bowl Era Desperation
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All About Jazz
Hal Ashby's film of Woody Guthrie's autobiography, BOUND FOR GLORY, recounts the protest singer's life starting when he's a young man with a wife and two children, trying to find work as a sign painter in the Dust Bowl-ravaged Texas of the 1930s.
He leaves his wife, Mary (Melinda Dillon), with her family and, like thousands of others, rides the rails to California. Along the way he sees the brutal treatment of men by the railroad's hired thugs before being ...
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Jonatha Brooke Sets Original Music to Woody Guthrie Lyrics "The Works" on Bad Dog Records
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Toolshed
"Brooke has dedicated herself to the well-made song." --New York Times “Brooke is pure folk clarity cut with pure rock opacity." --Rolling Stone There's More True Lovers Than One (MP3) When Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora invited Jonatha Brooke into the famous Woody Guthrie Archives, the intention was for Brooke to set Guthrie's lyrics to one or two songs, becoming the first woman ever to do so. The end result is a full-length album of previously unheard lyrics by Guthrie set ...
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Woody Guthrie/Steinbeck Tribute
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JamBase
TWO GIANTS OF AMERICAN WORDCRAFT CELEBRATED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CONCERT
Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land - A Tribute to John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie and the American Spirit will take place Saturday, September 20 beginning at 2pm at Sleep Train Pavilion At Concord. So far, the lineup, which will include further additions includes:
Sheryl Crow Cat Power Henry Rollins (spoken word set) Mike Ness Son Volt Sarah ...
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Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie
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All About Jazz
Without Woody Guthrie, there would be no Pete Seeger and no Dylan, Donovan or Byrds.
There would be no “This Land is Your Land," “If I Had a Hammer," “Turn, Turn, Turn," and no Dust Bowl Ballads. The trajectory of American folk music would be forever thrown off its established vector. The poor, oppressed and otherwise dispossessed would be without an acoustic champion. Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma in 1912, and spent the rest of his life fighting the ...
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The Tuba Project (Fri) Chris Lightcap (Sat) Andy Guthrie (Sun) & More This Weekend at Cornelia St. Cafe
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All About Jazz
December 2, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe Dec 2 - Dec 4 Fri Dec 02 THE TUBA PROJECT FEATURING BOB STEWART (Lucian Ban, piano; Bruce Williams, alto sax ...
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