Folk artist Woody Guthrie has been heralded at gatherings across the country this year in celebration of his 100th birthday. The culminating event occurs this week in a concert featuring renowned ...

Woody Guthrie was born on July 14th, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. Over the decades, his songs have run around the world like a fast train on a well oiled track. They’ve become the folk song standards of ...

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The great American troubadour Woody Guthrie, who wrote our “second national anthem,” “This Land Is Your Land,” would have turned 100 this Saturday, had Huntington’s chorea not claimed him in 1967, ...

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