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Joe Klein
The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
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Guthrie Woody
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A reimagined version of American folk icon Woody Guthrie’s groundbreaking 1940 album, Dust Bowl Ballads
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Daniel Wolff
A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery…
Bruce Hearn from ska legends Strange Tenants, gathered some of Australia's greatest folk icons, including Eric Bogle, Margret RoadKnight, Mic Conway, Jan 'Yarn' Wositzky, plus a 20 piece trade union…
Will Kaufman
Explores how, through multiple artistic forms, Woody Guthrie thought and felt about the scientific method, atomic power, and war technology, as well as the shifting dynamics of gender and race…
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(Richmond MusicFolios). 20 songs from this popular folk singer/songwriter are featured in ukulele arrangements so you can strum and sing along. Includes: Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) *…
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Woody Guthrie kept moving throughout his life, making friends, soaking up influences, and writing about his experiences. Along the way, he produced more than 3,000 songs, as well as fiction…
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The writer for The New Yorker magazine who revealed himself as the author of Primary Colors recounts the life of folk singer Woody Guthrie against the background of the Great…
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Deluxe ed. of Woody Guthrie songs including biography and new discography.
To map Woody Guthrie’s movements across space and time, the author draws not only on the artist’s considerable recorded and published output but on a wealth of unpublished sources housed…
Folk/Country Guitar/Fretted Instrument Solos
Woody Guthrie
This novel offers a portrait of the American Dust Bowl whose storms and constant droughts made the devastating effects of the Great Depression even worse. It tells the story of…
(Richmond MusicFolios). This collection features the original versions of all 26 songs Guthrie submitted to the Bonneville Power Administration in 1941 to promote development of the Columbia River and…
Unacc. melodies; includes chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams.
Available at last–legendary folk singer and American icon Guthrie’s only finished novel: a prophetic and powerful portrait of two hardscrabble farmers struggling to survive the elements and other powerful forces…
Newly discovered, and with an Introduction by Johnny Depp and Douglas Brinkley, legendary folk singer and American icon Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel: a prophetic and powerful portrait of two…
Gustavus Stadler
Stadler revives Guthrie’s story as a dramatic portrait understood more fully through the lens of disability and close relationships, as he faced setbacks including his daughter’s death, an obscenity arrest…
Unearthing the legendary folkie’s deep roots in radical politics
Bill Nowlin
Don’t miss this tribute to the writer and composer of the greatest love song ever written, This Land is Your Land. Woody Guthrie’s voice takes us back to the America…
Unlock Guthrie from the confines of rural folk and Hollywood mythology, as Will Kaufman does here, and you’ll find an abstract painter and sculptor who wrote about atomic energy and…
Ronald D. Cohen
Woody Guthrie is the most famous and influential folk music composer and performer in the history of the US. His most popular song, ‘This Land is Your Land’ has become…
Nick Hayes
Forged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon those songs became the voice…
First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Jonathan Cape –Page 4 of cover.
John Cohen
John Cohen’s portraiture of two titans of American music at opposite ends of their careers
John Cohen was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, one of the…
Nora Guthrie,Robert Santelli
The timely, passionate, and humanely political work of America’s greatest folk singer and songwriter is presented through his own words and art - curated by Woody’s daughter - in this…
Fred Sokolow
Woody Guthrie's songs gave direction and purpose to a generation of songwriters in the 1950s and 1960s, and they continue to move millions of people today. This Land Is Your…
Mark Allan Jackson
Examines the cultural and political significance of the words and music of Woodrow Wilson ‘Woody’ Guthrie (1912-1967). This title traces how he documented the history of America’s poor and disadvantaged…
Ed Cray
A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. Ed Cray, the first biographer to be granted access to the Woody…
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REV Steve Edington,Woody Guthrie
I loved this book! Rev. Edington writes with such great ease and holds your attention. I am not a bookworm and don’t usually get tied down with a book; but…
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-1967) has had an immense impact on popular culture throughout the world. This title provides an examination of Guthrie’s cultural significance and an evaluation of both his…
Dropkick Murphys, Woody Guthrie
In the 10 songs that make up This Machine Still Kills Fascists, Dropkick Murphys bring Woody Guthrie's perennial jabs at life – many of which are from the 1940s…
(Southern Music Orchestra). After a brief introduction the violas introduce the first melodic theme then pass it to the first violins in octaves as "This Land Is Your Land" by…
First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America’s Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all.
Woody Guthrie was born…
Kathy Jakobsen,Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie’s timely and timeless folk anthem, accompanied by acclaimed folk artist Kathy Jakobsen’s dazzlingly detailed illustrations is being reissued with a gorgeous new cover to remind a new generation…
An autobiography of Woody Guthrie, founder of modern American folk music. This book presents a cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the…
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