Woody Guthrie
In a 1943 review of Woody Guthrie’s autobiography in The New Yorker, Clifton Fadiman wrote presciently, “Someday people are going to wake up to the fact that Woody Guthrie and the ten thousand songs that leap and tumble off of the strings of his music box are a national possession, like Yellowstone and Yosemite.”
Woody Guthrie was, without question, the most important figure in the 20th century American folk movement. Though Guthrie was active in the studio and on radio for little more than a decade before health issues ended his career, the prolific singer and songwriter virtually defined the profile of the socially conscious musician. He served as a role model for generations of important... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Okemah, Oklahoma, United States
- Genre:
- Folk, Traditional Folk
- Birthdate:
- 07/14/1912
- Death date:
- 10/03/1967
