Happy Birthday to Woody Guthrie.. his Centennial B-Day Celebration (July 14th)

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Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land." Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy and Tom Paxton have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence. -Wikipedia

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Happy Birthday to Woody Guthrie.. his Centennial B-Day Celebration (July...

WOODROW WILSON ‘’WOODY’’ GUTHRIE, (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967)

..with third wife, Marjorie Mazia.

Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie, son of Woody Guthrie.

by unknown artist.. "This land is made for you and me".

With Johnny Depp’s Help, Woody Guthrie Novel, “House of Earth,” to arrive in 2013: The author Douglas Brinkley and Depp are teaming up to edit the previously unpublished novel by Guthrie that will be released next spring.

Dust bowl troubadour: Woody Guthrie with Margaret Johnson in October 1940

Folk singer/guitarist Elizabeth Mitchell and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings are releasing today “Little Seed: Songs for Children by Woody Guthrie.”

Guthrie Family Tree: Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion

14 July 2012: HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY Woody Guthrie! "From California To The New York Island, This Land Was Made For You And Me."

Sarah Lee Guthrie — the granddaughter of legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie — and her husband, Johnny Irion, will pay tribute to Woody Guthrie at Hill Country.

This celebration is going to be in St. Louis, Missouri.. but others around the nation as well on, Saturday 14 July 2012.

(L-R) Musicians Val McCallum, Cindy Wasserman, and John Doe perform during the Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert in Los Angeles.

THE ALMANAC SINGERS, 1942: Bess Hawes, Pete Seeger, Millard Lampell, Woody Guthrie, Arthur Stern, Sis Cunningham (left to right) Pete Seeger)

A New Year's Resolution written out by Woody Guthrie... "Write a song a day"!

In 1960, Bob Dylan dropped out of college and moved to New York where his idol, the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie was hospitalized with a rare hereditary disease of the nervous system. Dylan visited with Guthrie regularly in his hospital room.

Woody Guthrie with his wife, Mary Guthrie, and children.

Tom Morello perfoms at the Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert in Chicago on May 12, 2012.

A list of “New Years Rulin’s” from Woody Guthrie, 1941: Woody Guthrie illustration by Robert Crumb

Woody Guthrie centennial concert, @ Metro, Chicago 5/19/2012 (photo: By swimfinfan)

Throughout his life Guthrie was associated with United States communist groups, though he was seemingly not a member of any.

Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' (1984). Director: Jim Brown. Stars: Hoyt Axton, Joan Baez and Judy Collins

Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Lomax (foreground), Lilly Mae Ledford, and Alan Lomax

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Arlo Guthrie and family in 2010.

Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice.

Woody recorded more than 100 original songs with his pal Cisco Houston.

By Artist Shepard Fairy

Gruthrie .."showed that music could be a call for social and political change."

With his infamous guitar, "This Machine Kills Fascists".

Woody Guthrie with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, another folk singer and performer.

Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned traditional folk and blues songs. Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression, earning him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour."

Folk musician, songwriter, and author Woody Guthrie would have celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, July 14, 2012.

A scrapbook page with a letter from Woody Guthrie to his sister.

Folk artist Woody Guthrie was the subject of a 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for Faculty at SUNY Potsdam

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