The United States has a rich history of protest music, with artists like Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan spinning collective rage and political anxieties into eloquent messages of unity and hope. And some ...
A new documentary connects the life and music of the Depression-era singer-songwriter to today's struggles for social justice ...
One of Woody Guthrie's most popular songs, this patriotic tune was written as a parody of another patriotic song.
On Friday night, in a large field in Western Massachusetts, an album of Woody Guthrie songs will be performed publicly for the first time. Not by Guthrie, of course — the legendary folk singer has ...
Seven years after Woody Guthrie left his Bonneville Power Administration songwriting job, penning “Roll on Columbia,” and 25 other songs, he wrote another. The song, “Vanport’s Flood,” expressed the d ...