A Searchlight special feature: Woody Guthrie a tribute to a voice against fascism and racism
Useful Resources
Recordings and video
Columbia River Collection, 1987. Rounder Records
Bound for Glory, by Woody Guthrie, read by Arlo Guthrie, 1992. Audio Literature.
Bound for Glory, Songs and Stories of Woody Guthrie, with Will Geer reading, 1956. Smithsonian Folkways.
Dust Bowl Ballads, 1989. Rounder Records.
The Library of Congress Recordings, 1988. Rounder Records.
Pete Seeger Sings Woody Guthrie, 1968. Smithsonian Folkways.
Sing Folk Songs, vol 1, 1989. Smithsonian Folkways.
Songs to Grow On for Mother and Child, 1991. Smithsonian Folkways.
This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, vol 1, 1997. Smithsonian Folkways.
That’s Why We’re Marching: World War II and the American Folk Song Movement, Featuring Woody Guthrie et. al. 1996, Smithsonian Folkways
Mermaid Avenue, Billy Bragg with Wilco, 1998. Elektra Entertainment Group.
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, 1998. CBS Music, Video Enterprises.
Books
Guthrie, Woody. Bound for Glory. New York; E P Dutton & Co, 1943. [Reprinted 1995].
Marsh, Dave and Leventhal Harold, eds. Pastures of Plenty. New York; HarperCollins, 1990.
Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived and Dreamed. New York; Dutton, 1976. [Reprinted 1995].
Guthrie, Woody and Kathy Jakobsen, illustrator.
Klein, Joe. Woody Guthrie: A Life. New York; Alfred Knopf, 1980. [Reprinted 1999].
Longhi, Jim. Woody, Cisco, and Me: Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine. Urbana; University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Santelli, Robert and Emily Davidson, eds. Hard Travelin’. The life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie. Wesleyan University Press; Hanover, New Hampshire; University Press of New England, 1999.
Useful Woody Guthrie websites
Smithsonian Folkways: www.si.edu/folkways
Woody Guthrie Archives: www.woodyguthrie.org (official Woody Guthrie site).
Thanks to Nora Guthrie and Amy Danielian of the Woody Guthrie Archives, without whom this feature would not have been possible. The Woody Guthrie Archives can be contacted at:
Woody Guthrie Foundation
250 West 57th Street, #1218
New York, NY 10107, USA
Tel: 001 212 541 6230
Fax: 001 212 459 9035
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I hate a song that makes you think that you are no good … I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it’s hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter how hard it’s run you down, and rolled over you, no matter what colour, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that will make you take pride in yourself and your work. Woody Guthrie |
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