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04-05-2003

Profile: Hans Eckardt Wenzel tackling the legendary balladeer, Woody Guthrie

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When Woody Guthrie died, he left behind almost 3,000 unpublished and unrecorded songs. His daughter Nora maintained an archive of this material. Every so often, she picks musicians to set some of these lyrics to music. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on the latest to...

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	Woody Guthrie archives yield treasure for the entire family. The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) ; Byline: Nick Cristiano For too many people, Woody Guthrie is freeze-dried in history as the populist heartland folkie who composed This Land Is Your Land, and was a mentor to Bob Dylan. At least that is what his daughter believes. Everybody has to get off this black-and-white, sepia-toned,
	Delving ever deeper into the treasures of Woody Guthrie THE JOURNAL RECORD ; It was just three years ago that the Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives presented a major Smithsonian Institution exhibition at the Oklahoma Museum of History featuring numerous unpublished works of Okemah native folk singer Woody Guthrie on the struggles of common men and women. Guthrie is known
	Woody Guthrie tribute is something to Bragg about. The Boston Herald ; When Nora Guthrie asked Billy Bragg to compose music for unrecorded lyrics by her father (the late American folk hero Woody Guthrie), Bragg wasn't sure what to say. He knew it was a wild opportunity. He would essentially be teaming up with a major musical figure of the 20th century, the man who
	Woody Guthrie, voice of the people, still resonates Exhibit, recordings, books, even a posthumous Grammy pay tribute to singer who combined music and activism The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; Sunday, April 2, 2000 Woody Guthrie would have laughed at the commotion about his work this year. Then he would have written a song about it. By the time of his death in 1967 at age 55, he had written more than 2,000 songs and poems, by one count. He had also completed hundreds of drawings,
	Woody Guthrie archives yield treasure for the entire family.(Knight Ridder Newspapers) Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ; For too many people, Woody Guthrie is freeze-dried in history as the populist heartland folkie who composed This Land Is Your Land, and was a mentor to Bob Dylan. At least that is what his daughter believes. Everybody has to get off this black-and-white, sepia-toned, Dust-Bowl-balladeer image, said
	Bound for glory--indeed!(Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie)(Book review) Monthly Review ; Ed Cray, Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), 488 pages, cloth $29.95. Ed Cray's new biography of Woody Guthrie marks another step in a growing interest in the left-wing Okie troubadour. In 1997, historian Charles J. Shindo published Dust Bowl Migrants
	Interview: Ed Cray discusses his new biography of Woody Guthrie, "Ramblin' Man" Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR) ; ... on the life of Woody Guthrie, including a rarely heard radio performance, visit our Web site, npr.org. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Brian Naylor. Content and Programming copyright 2004 National Public Radio, Inc. All rights reserved.
	'Other' Woody Guthrie now in spotlight Deseret News (Salt Lake City) ; ALBANY, N.Y. -- 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
	Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People New England Reading Association Journal ; CHRISTENSEN, BONNIE. (2001). Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-37581113-3. This picture book biography of Woody Guthrie tells his life story. Music was an important part of his life. Woody Guthrie is perhaps best known for the folk song, This Land Is Your Land.
	WOODY GUTHRIE'S JEWISH SONGS.(News) The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) ; 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

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