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1) Every 100 Years - The Woody Guthrie Centennial Songbook: 100 Years - 100 Songs

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Language

English

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2012 would have been the 100th birthday of American singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie. To mark his extraordinary achievements in songwriting, we are releasing this centennial songbook. Woody Guthrie wrote over 3,000 songs in his lifetime, yet only 300 or so were ever recorded. At the invitation of Guthrie's daughter, Nora Guthrie, contemporary singer/songwriters have set music to Guthrie's previously unpublished lyrics. Musicians such as Billy Bragg,...

2) Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Language

English

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Legendary folk singer and activist, Woody Guthrie and his songs changed the world. Born in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, Guthrie traveled America by boxcar, thumb, and foot. Along the journey, he composed and sang songs that have become a national heritage. His songs, however, are but part of his legacy. This remarkable autobiography brings to life both his vibrant personality and a vision of America we cannot afford to let die. Funny, cynical, and earthy,...

3) This land is your land

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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This well-known folk song is accompanied by a tribute from folksinger Pete Seeger, the musical notation, and a biographical scrapbook with photographs.

4) House of earth: a novel

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Large Print

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"Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself-fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. A house of earth. Though they are...

5) Muleskinner blues: The Asch recordings,vol. 2

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Series

Asch recordings volume 2

Physical Desc

1 audio disc (66 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

6) Buffalo skinners

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Series

Asch recordings volume 4

Physical Desc

1 audio disc (74 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

7) Long ways to travel

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Physical Desc

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

8) New baby train

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Language

English

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An illustrated version of the song that answers the question "Where do little babies really come from?"

9) Honeyky Hanukah

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 cm)

Language

English

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A family celebrates Hanukkah with latkes, hugs, kisses, and dancing.

10) California to the New York island: being a pocketfull of brags, blues, bad men ballads, love songs, Okie laments, and children's catcalls

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Physical Desc

48 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Language

English

11) Woody's 20 grow big songs: songs and pictures

Author

Guthrie, Woody

Physical Desc

1 score (48 unnumbered pages) ; 24 cm

Language

English

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An illustrated collection of songs, accompanied by their musical arrangements.

12) Wonder wheel

Author

Klezmatics (Musical group)

Physical Desc

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

13) This machine still kills fascists: lyrics of Woody Guthrie

Author

Dropkick Murphys (Musical group)

Physical Desc

1 audio disc (30 min.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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Dropkick Murphys history with Woody Guthrie dates back decades, from covering "Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight" on their 2003 album Blackout, to using some of Guthrie's writing about Boston in their immortal hit "I'm Shipping Up To Boston". But on their latest album, This Machine Still Kills Fascists, Dropkick Murphys have crafted an entire record around the seminal American folk icon, bringing Woody Guthrie's perennial jabs at life -- many of which are...