Woody Guthrie - Born One Hundred Years Ago on 14th July 1912

[Tony]

Woody Guthrie was born one hundred years ago on 14th July 1912.

Perhaps Bruce Springsteen might sing some of his songs in Hyde Park, London on that date when he gives his concert?

The words he wrote still seem pertinent today, many years after he penned them.


'This Land Is Your Land,' Bruce Springsteen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGoTC3UR ... re=related

'This Land Is Your Land,' Arlo Guthrie, Holly Near, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Judy Collins, Hoyt Axton and Joan Baez.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bphP7Hh_gxU

'This Land Is Your Land.' Woody Guthrie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1my1jn6QHzE&feature=fvst

[Diane]

That's interesting, Tony. I'll be that he does mark that anniversary, likely with the opening song. It will be good to meet you after all these years, in Hyde Park. What colour is your umbrella?

[Tony]

I am hoping that an umbrella will be supplied by my retinue, Diane! I will keep an eye open for you on the day.

[sebmelmoth2003]

2 hours and 43 minutes into the programme - tom paley's connexion to woody explicated.
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Tom Paley, one of the great survivors of the American folk scene, has been living for the past 40 years in a small flat above a London tube station, and now aged 84 has a new album coming out. The BBC's Mark Coles went to the launch party.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 734763.stm
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mark coles writes :

I spent much of yesterday talking to the veteran folk guitar and banjo musician Tom Paley. Now 84 years old, he's hung out, played and met just about everyone that matters in the American folk tradition. In the late 1940s and early 50s he jammed with the likes of Pete Seeger and Leadbelly, he performed with Woody Guthrie, taught Ry Cooder, Jerry Garcia and Dave Van Ronk how to play blues guitar and banjo and won the respect of Bob Dylan.

Paley's late 1950s band, The New Lost City Ramblers, one of the most influential groups around ("I couldn't listen to them enough" Bob Dylan "Chronicles"). Now, almost half a century after his first release on Elektra, Tom Paley's got a new album coming out at the end of June. I'm doing a feature for BBC Radio 4's Today programme next week.....and, needless to say, there'll be an extended interview on The Shed.

http://www.markcolesmusic.com/Shedcasting.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Paley

tom was also interviewed by robert elms on bbc radio london - my headphones aren't working so can't check the time but robert's musical guests usually round off the show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p00ttq98

[Steven]

Hi,

Seems fitting that Woody Guthrie was born on July 14th, Bastille Day, as he championed freedom from opression and
exploitation.

WoodyFest is coming up in Okemah, Oklahoma, July 11-15, 2012. http://www.woodyguthrie.com/

[sebmelmoth2003]

watch it now.

or wait for broadcast this friday upcoming.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hbj01

[sebmelmoth2003]

Woody at 100 - archive on 4 - bbc radio 4 - saturday 14th july, 2012.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kr725
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article in the observer :

Woody Guthrie still inspires, 100 years on from his birth.

In his centenary year, the songs of the father of protest live on in the music of Dylan and Springsteen. But his radical approach to life provides arguably an even greater legacy...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/ju ... sfeed=true

[Kush]

Tom Russell's tribute to Woody Guthrie, "a song that splatters red dirt and snake oil on the airbrushed portrait of Guthrie..."

Woodrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPZWwHqIErg


a note: They always trot out the names of the usual suspects - Dylan and Springsteen - when talking of Woody Guthrie's legacy but IMHO it is Merle Haggard (recently a Kennedy Center honoree) who is the true inheritor of his Woody Guthrie's legacy. Especially the early songs - they are pure Guthrie.