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Knock on Woody // Guthrie fest finds home after Cowboy Hall rejects exhibit
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The first Woody Guthrie Free Folk Arts Festival was held over the
summer in his hometown of Okemah, Okla. The festival came together
after the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City refused to
sponsor the Smithsonian Institution's opening stop of "This Land Is
Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie," a 1999 touring
exhibit of Guthrie music, journals and artifacts.
The exhibit opening date has since been postponed, but "This
Land Is Your Land" is tentatively slated to app...
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Knock on Woody // Guthrie fest finds home after Cowboy Hall rejects exhibit
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... Everything books out three years ahead. Logistically, the Guthrie exhibition did not work for us at this time." In other Woody Guthrie news, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is ready to release three offshoot projects that came out of the 1996 conference ...
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 "The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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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,
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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& Archives presented a major Smithsonian Institution exhibition at the Oklahoma Museum of History featuring numerous unpublished works of Okemah native folk singer Woody Guthrie on the struggles of common men and women.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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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Cowboy Hall of Fame Overcomes Problems of '80s
The Journal Record
; It was difficult to see how the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center could survive its internal problems back in 1986. A raging board dispute was just part of them. The Cowboy Hall was in receivership and was $8 million in debt from operations and acquisitions. That included $4
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 "Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)")
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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.
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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'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
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