It wasn’t until I came across [Guthrie’s] work that I found that hope. I believed that the veils had been pulled off." ...

This one featured on Ry’s 1972 album, Into the Purple Valley, and the song has also been recorded by Nazareth and Bruce Springsteen. Pete Seeger met Woody Guthrie in New York in 1940.

An accident in the early 1950s left Woody Guthrie unable to play the guitar. After moving back to New York, Guthrie continued ...

Woody Guthrie's songwriting was highly politically charged, and orbited themes of socialism and personal liberation in the face of the growth of capitalism and various forms of facism. Songs such ...

Folk music icon Woody Guthrie, one of the most important ... This Machine Kills Fascists," Guthrie wrote thousands of songs in his life, many of which are still being recorded today.

Woody Guthrie, shown here in the 1940s, created great lines in songs and drawings. Bettmann / Corbis; Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives And Collections, SI / Copyright ...

The two albums of Woody Guthrie songs recorded by Billy Bragg and Wilco and released as Mermaid Avenue (Volumes One and Two) are already alt. country classics. Kim Hopkins' documentary film ...