Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson (Woody) Guthrie ( Okemah , Oklahoma , July 14 1912 - New York , October 3 1967 ) was a prolific and influential American folk singer , guitarist ,banjo - and harmonica player, which is a treasure trove, among other songs, folk poems and articles failed, many political. In one of his songs he calls himself "The Great Historical Bum", (trans. The great historian Swagger) but he was actually a direct observer, commentator and survivor of the political, economic and ecological calamities that the so-called Dust Bowl in the states of the Great Plains caused during the Great Depression.



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*1 Biography  ==[Biography  edit ] == Woody Guthrie's birthplace
 * 1.1 fleeing the Dust Bowl
 * 1.2 Radio Work
 * 1.3 Illness and death
 * 2 Influences
 * 2.1 Bibliography
 * 3   Footnotes

Okfuskee County , OklahomaWoody Guthrie was born in Okfuskee County , Oklahoma, the son of Nora Belle Sherman and Charles Edward Guthrie. His parents named him Woodrow Wilson, in Woody's birth in 1912 to American president was elected. Woody had certainly not carefree, but also not unhappy childhood  and, surprisingly, had burnt a large role in, when it was Woody seven years he lost his sister Clara because they set himself on fire to her mother's dismay hunt. In 1927 Woody's mother was included in theOklahoma Hospital for the Insane, after Woody's father also fired, an act that is probably due to its nature by the Huntington's disease. She died in 1929 from this disease, the same genetic disorder in which Woody himself in 1967 after a long illness at would die. It is believed that the maternal grandfather, George Sherman, also suffered from this disease, given the circumstances under which he died.

When he 19 was, in 1931, he moved to Pampa ( Texas ) after the wealth was in his hometown deteriorated sharply. Woody used his musical talent by earning money as a street musician and small-scale performances.

Pampa he met his first wife, Mary Jennings, with whom he in 1933 married. Together they had three children. Mary was the sister of Matt Jennings, a musician and a good friend of Woody. With him and Cluster Baker Woody took the first steps in his career. They formed the group "The Corn Cob Trio". The relationship between Woody and his wife were always strained by his many travels and the accompanying move of the family. ===[Fleeing  the Dust Bowl edit ]  === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the period of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Guthrie could not maintain his family and left for California . There were strangers only accepted under certain conditions. Partly as a result of what he witnessed and was surrounded by poverty on his journey to and through California, Woody took political and social views in favor of the working class. Which he incorporated into protest songs .This is very clearly heard in his "Dust Storm" -ballad collection (eg. Hard Travellin 'Talking Dust Bowl Blues and I Ain't got no home). Wrote about this period John Steinbeck his book " The Grapes of Wrath . " ===<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[Radio  Work <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1937 he and his new singing partner Maxime Crissman were ("Lefty Lou") can be heard in radio broadcasts on KFVD (in Los Angeles ) and XELO (just across the border in Mexico ) which gave them a huge public attention. Previously he had played with his cousin Jack Guthrie, who would have later success with the song "Oklahoma Hills" that he and Woody had written together.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Woody got more and more success, but felt not good at. He traveled a lot. Meanwhile, his wife and children also come into California. When the family decided to return to Pampa, Woody traveled to New York. There he met many important people and had many friends (like Cisco Houston and Pete Seeger, with whom he performed).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">During the 40s Woody took a lot of songs at Lomax and Moses Ash . The recordings from that period of great value to young folk music singers and folk music writers anywhere because they are a great source of inspiration. Woody kept going writing songs and performing with the Almanac Singers (with Pete Seeger). This was a radical left political vocal group of the early 40s some of whose members later The Weaversformed (the most commercially successful and influential folk music group around 1950). In 1941 he came with his family into the northwestern United States. There it was working on the containment of the Columbia River, with the intention to generate electricity. This work was done by the Bonneville Power Authority.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A month Woody was employed by this organization and he wrote a number of songs about the work at Columbia (such as "Roll on Columbia"). He also continued to travel and his first marriage ended in the early forties on the cliffs. He married Marjorie Mazie Greenblatt. This relationship gave him some stability and Marjorie encouraged him to write and perform, and recordings. As a result, he published his second book,Bound for Glory ( 1943 ), which was filmed in 1976 (directed by Hal Ashby with Ronny Cox, David Carradine, etc.). It is about Woody's life from 1936 to 1940 when the country travels.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Marjorie, he had four children, including Arlo and Nora Guthrie. Again fire played a fatal role in his life: his daughter Cathy came in February 1947 at four-year age in a fire at. Guthrie here was understandably depressed. Woody did his military service during the Second World War and wrote in that period many anti-fascist songs (eg. Seamen three). After his military service, he settled with his family in Coney Island (New York) [1] and there he composed songs to grow on, nursery rhymes that would later bring him good luck. ===Illness and death <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Soon after began to change Woody's health and behavior. He was traveling a capricious person and started again. In California, he met Anneke Van Kirk, married her and they had a daughter. Eventually he returned to New York, where Marjorie again care for Woody took over. To gain insight into his illness he visited several doctors. They proposed all different diagnoses, ranging from alcoholism to schizophrenia. In fact, he was suffering from the Huntington's disease. His mother was 30 years earlier also deceased to that disease. Woody stayed in different hospitals and died in Creedman State Hospital of Queens on October 3rd 1967. He was 55 years old. Woody's body was cremated and scattered at Coney Island, New York . ==Influences <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Has done all that Guthrie is nevertheless the composition and structure of all his songs, his most recognized contribution to American culture; honesty, humor and his personal view of the social, political, and legal aspects. His most famous song is This land is your land, which he wrote in February 1940. Originally the "God Blessed America" ​​be called, in part inspired by his experiences during a trip through the land and partly on his dislike of Irving Berlins "God Bless America", which song he thought unrealistic and complacent. (And he had enough of Kate Smith singing ever heard this on the radio). The melody is based on the gospel "When the World's on Fire", best known by the country group The Carter Family around 1930 was active. Guthrie protested in the final choruses from class differences:


 * In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple,
 * By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
 * As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
 * Is this land made for you and me?
 * As I went walking, I saw a sign there,
 * And on the sign there, It said "no trespassing." (Sometimes also by Guthrie himself "the sign reads Private Property" sung <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13] )
 * But on the other side, it did not say nothing!
 * That side was made for you and me.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">His works continue to be valued. He posthumously incorporated into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame . He has received numerous awards and recognitions. There was even a 10-day celebration in honor of Woody with photos, exhibitions, films and benefit concerts.The year after his death were given in New York and Hollywood memorial concerts, the artists who performed here were Pete Seeger , Bob Dylan , Judy Collins , Joan Baez , Arlo Guthrie , Tom Paxton and others.Woody Guthrie had an influence on the early work of Bob Dylan. On his first album Bob Dylan sings his "Song to Woody.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">On his death has left a number Guthrie lyrics. His daughter asked Billy Bragg and members of the group Wilco provide these texts to music. This produced the CDs "Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1 & 2". Until the 21th century there are artists (eg Dropkick Murphys ) incorporating work of Woody Guthrie. Janis Ian has completed a song Guthrie at the request of his relatives and himself released: "If I could only hear my mother sing again" (on CD "Billie's Bones"). ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Bibliography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Robert Santelli - Hard travelling'- 1999
 * Joe Klein - Woody Guthrie. A life - 1999
 * Anne E. Niemark - There is not nobody That can sing like me - 2002
 * Ed Cray - Ramblin 'Man - 2006
 * John A. Burrison - Prophet singer - 2007
 * Martin Butler - Voices of the down and out - 2008
 * John S. Partington - The life, music and thought of Woody Guthrie - 2011
 * Will Kaufmann - Woody Guthrie. American Radical - 2011
 * Robert Santelli - This land is your land - 2012