 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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WOODY GUTHRIE'S JEWISH SONGS.(News)
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The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
| Date:
December 4, 2004
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Woody Guthrie was a dust bowl drifter, a guitar strummer and a proto-folkie who wrote enduring songs about America's workers and underdogs. He also was a longtime New York City resident who relished Jewish culture and wrote pages of unpublished lyrics about Hanukkah, Jewish history and spirituality.
That "other" Guthrie is now in the spotlight, decades after his death.
A batch of his Jewish lyrics has been dusted off, set to music and recorded by the Klezmati...
