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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Featuring never-before-published lyrics to some of his greatest songs, personal diary entries, doodles, quips and jokes, and piercing insights on politics and justice, this is Woody Guthrie's essential self-portrait, carefully curated by Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie and award-winning music writer and historian Robert Santelli"--
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Stadler revives Guthrie's story as a dramatic portrait understood more fully through the lens of disability and close relationships, as he faced setbacks including his daughter's death, an obscenity arrest, therapy in a sex deviance clinic, and repeated stays in mental wards"--
10) Bound for glory
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Woody Guthrie leaves Texas and heads to California looking for work. He meets hobos, migrant workers and people down on their luck, and begins his career as a folk singer.
12) Born to win
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
Collection of essays, prose, verse, journal notes, maxims, song lyrics, and letters.
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
This film explores Guthrie's creative genius -- his life and music as well as lesser known talents like writing and painting. Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land.' The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to U2.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A biography of Woody Guthrie, a singer who wrote over 3,000 folk songs and ballads as he traveled around the United States, including "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh."
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The life and career of the most recognized and beloved folk musician of the twentieth century are recalled here, with details of his hobo days as well as his marriage, his "subversive" activities, and his eventual death by Huntingdon's Disease.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Near the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II, a homeless Dust Bowl refugee named Woody Guthrie originally drafted "This Land Is Your Land" as an anthem that encompassed the tough realities of those dark times--and as a rebuttal to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." But the song that Guthrie despised had its own complexities. Irving Berlin had risen from homelessness before becoming America's most successful songwriter,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This picture book biography follows a young Bob Zimmerman as he renames himself after his favorite poet, Dylan Thomas, and leaves his mining town to pursue his love of music in New York City. There, he meets his folk music hero Woody Guthrie, changing his life forever.