Woody Guthrie - 1945

[coolanddark]

Its such a shame we dont have more video of Woody singing his masterpieces! Great song! short as it was

[TomThumbsBlues1965]

hero of the highest order. blasphemy to say somethin negative about this man

[Lazairus]

people think Mr guthrie was some sort of Hero, but in fact if you met him , he would have been quite difficult to get on with, he, was after all hard drinking okeh, he was only human after all and he like ever person has his faults. I suppose you will have to read Joe Kliens Autobiography to understand this.

[dojusticelovemercy1]

The nine people who "disliked" this video must be some kinda fascist.

[AngelaRed]

See the turn table at the beginning of the video? That means he's lip singing to this. WHICH means this video is like a pre-historic to the videos we see today

[lupine22]

@AngelaRed No -- the turntable you see at the left of the picture is the recording machine. You can also see a microphone connected to it. That's how they did it in 1945 - before tape - they cut the sound straight onto a blank disc.

[ManilaSyndicate]

Such a calming, soothing voice. It's unfortunate so few videos of the man taken during his lifetime survive. America's bard.

The immortal pre-1950 musical artists are a marvel and revelation to behold.

[cesareo12]

Amazingly powerful, this is not vintage, is eternal

[guthriewillow]

I am about to have my first child. If it's a girl her name will be Willow. If it's a boy we're going with Guthrie. I'm kind of hoping for a boy, just to pay tribute to an amazing spirit. Peace and solidarity to all!

[lucripet]

@guthriewillow Peace and solidarity to you young one! Hold tight to your convictions!

[Blackduck46]

From a person who has lived through three generations of Huntingtons I can add that the chorea movement looking at Woody is typical .He reminds me of my son who is suffering at present, as are my two daughters. This illness is one only the Devil could have created(if one believes in the Devil). I feel for him though I never knew him. I cared for my wife Mary, who died in 1999 at home because of places like Greystone.My 40 year old daughter Elizabeth is at home now, 2 years to live.

RIP Woody.

[vlyman9]

amazing.  sad there's not more

[Tombstone314159]

Woody didn't need electricity, bass, lead guitar, rythym guitar, drums, keyboards...and all the finer for it.

[Julian9ehp]

Unless I'm mistaken, the swaying is an early sign of his Huntington's. Terrible disease.

[Tombstone314159]

@Julian9ehp No I don't think it is: Huntingdon's Disease (indeed terrible) was known for years as Huntingdon's Chorea. Chorea movements are typically very jerky and can be violent enough to throw a patient out of bed. I think he's just swinging to his rythym.

[osvelhos]

see: Os velhos da montanha

[stanleysoldman]

dig this

[johnnyjackpot]

Man, this is Great!

Thanks MUCH!

[Theophilus200]

Thanks for posting!

[Dobrobender]

Born on this date in 1912.

[LopanTheLemming]

He may have only two clips, but think of poor Robert Johnson, he has more gravestones than photographs.

[AllopoieticSystems]

Check out Dust Bowl Productions to see Info on a one man show About the life and times of Woody Guthrie

[B00NYK]

This guy was inspiring

but i'll never get to meet him ):

[tentstate]

@B00NYK yes you do. just put on an album and sit back. you'll get to know him pretty good ;)

[deja2053]

this is one of his best songs. its a moving ehymic ballad a true american western

cowboy song as authentic as any mecican corrido.

[andyclaire]

Only two surviving clips of Woody? I've seen quite a bit more than that.

[TEB1952]

andyclaire: Where can I find them?

[andyclaire]

Oh I've found a bit surfing the web and I wouldn't be able to tell you where from specifically, but I know in Bob Dylan's documentary 'No Direction Home' they had a few Woody clips too, they weren't very long but it's still something.

[Tombstone314159]

@andyclaire Yes you probably have:Alan Lomax was wrong, for a change! One other, at least, can be found on You Tube. They need catalogueing.

[anitasseo]

luvly Woody.

[snoochins]

HAHAHA that train at the end adds such comical value

[edgeyp12]

The legend!

[nin225]

house of the rising sun is the folk song

[lupine22]

heh - i don't think so

[MyOtherUser2]

@RegardsPaul330 lol

[Terracotiancrepes]

@RegardsPaul330 hahaha nice try, though

[juanamary999]

Woody Guthrie a rambler indeed

[sandijay4]

This song reminds me of Texas A&M's football program.

[stepwilm]

glad to see the WMG borg not got this. american culture yours if you can spare warners a dime

[twistedinnosence]

didnt leadbelly write risin sun?

[THEREDNECKPEPI64]

great video!

[cindyshealed]

Bound For Glory (movie) will be shown at Woodyfest this year in Okemah, OK in July (along w/many live performances). It's going to be odd after the recent, strange death of Carradine.

[GirlCousins]

great post! thanks!

[Maarks]

wow

[kyannos]

I didn't know he wrote house of the rising sun, just got done watching Glory Bound, very interesting man, would genius be a good description

[kaboozy]

He didn't wrote it.

[memphisangel56]

He didn't write 'House of the Rising Sun'. The song is known as a 'traditional' song, probably written in the late 1800s. Nobody knows who wrote it actually.

[DrunkenApe4]

@memphisangel56 that is not true!

[dabble778]

Well he didn't write it, just recorded it like hundreds did. 'Risin' Sun' was recorded first prob in the 1920s by someone unknown and then adapted bt various artists like Woody, Van Ronk, Dylan, Animals

[talcual06]

The book was written by Woody, Bound for Glory, the movie is based on the book. The director is Hal Ashby, and you are right the same of that incredible movie Harold and Maude.

[stablejelly]

Bound For Glory bothers me every time I see it. Doesn't seem based on the book and certainly not the facts. And Carridine is too tactiturn for me. Woody seems more fun. Read a bio good people!

[haninouya]

Woody the Great!!!

[KarloR27]

Thank god they were not lost forever and long forgotten.

[bongden1012]

Great!

[guitarz04]

theres a good movie about woody staring david carradine made in 1976 called "bound for glory" that tells woody's story its quite interesting and entertaining

[jcatt500]

Thank you for that information. Ii will try to find a copy.

[enwurds]

Love that movie. It's directed by the same guy who did "Harold and Maude." The book it's based on is just as good.

[samzlolz1]

its also a book..

[FernandoAlonsodotcom]

My Grandfather was 19 years old in1945...

[RoomTroll]

yes

amazing how he played harmonica by ear

[TexWhatever]

it takes a lot of skill to throw across a whole song with just a guitar and your voice and make it sound full and complete.

woody was, of course the master of this.

the guitar in my vid response is named woody after him and it'd be nice to achieve his emeshment with his instrument.

sing on woody

sing on

[theob64]

Lovely to see him who inspired so many sing and play himself. Thanks Lupine.

[saullouis]

In addition to everything else he is very very musical.

[Edoes8080]

oh woody... my true love :)

[beardedyodeler]

The great thing about Woody was that he never cared about being famous. He always told people...

"Sing as loud and as long as you like, but don't mention my name" (From the liner notes he wrote for Dust Bowl Ballads)

I wish there were a thousand more like him in the music industry today. Maybe then we'd get some true honest heart felt music.

[JamieInez]

I love who ever Bob Dylan loves...

[Mellifluous49]

Gone but not forgotten-RIP Woody

[ShipThemToAfrica]

He died at greystoke hospital for the metally insane in morristown nj.

the building is still there.

[milliondustopeners]

wow he has really small feet.

[memphisblue54]

Woody is the original punk.

A true patriot if there ever was one.

Where is our Woody Guthrie today?

I'd give my right arm to have him here today...we need him here and now.

[LuckyEmily25]

This machine kills fascists!

[figliodigiacomo]

people trying to be like him that suck are people like toby keith or tim mcgraw

disgraces to music.

[dinosore9]

trying to be like woody?

not at all, man

[dinosore9]

stza crack is the pepsi generation's woody gunthrie

atleast in message anyway

[mara235]

Thanks - I believe this guy formed the basis for American protest music...may his spirit live on!

[Pettyswoman]

Thank you for sharing musicfirstlove!

[Tadek59]

Great voice and great video !

Brilliant !

5*****

Thanks for share musicfirstlove !

[jacquesmees]

Thanks for sharing, Marion

[neibotlai]

patriot and legend...its his turn to be sung about

[pufmama]

dont that just make you want more. so many thanks for posting.

[DRGasMoney]

chilling

[papabungard]

woody:

this land is your land

dust bowl blues

takes a worried man

pretty boy floyd

leaned a bit left was abused by his contemporaries

cast in mold of leadbelly/pete seeger/weavers

he knew he'd die of huntington's chorea, as did his mother

papabungardyoutube

[RinkRat012]

God, this guy is a fuckin idiot, he sounds like a retard and just sings about his poor self, he is fucking selfish!

[chicoetereo]

y tu eres gilipollas...

[peacenow94]

if you dont like the guy youb dont have to

listen to it or comment on it.

[BenRoundell]

The blues?

[neagler1]

My hero...

[LoadedForBear]

If ever we need you now brother.

[miguelio1234]

hell yeah.

[hj351]

youtube GOLD! thank you.

[jtgilmore13]

oh wow... this is amazing, i wish there was more.

[clearevil]

what a treasure..

wow..

[rikkidelreeko]

Oh Woody Woody where are you ? Nice one JimLane2 remembering the brilliant Phil Ochs

[JimLane2]

Happy Birthday, Woody! (July 14, 1912)

"He always stood his ground when the smaller men would run." --Phil Ochs

[latercerapalabra]

Muy bien !!

[footscraysteve]

Rather than complain about the scarcity of this stuff,im pretty amazed that we got anything to watch of this genius,plenty other dudes got nothing

[CarpenterTom1]

@footscraysteve well put , i`ll gladly share a bottle of single malt with you , i know it`ll always be 1/2 full

[SalesDudeMcBoob]

Pretty amazing stuff.

[gypsyeyes008]

so cool..

[Rope1125]

Guthrie is great! Does any one know where I can get good Woody Guthrie guitar tabs?

[leadbelly39]

I find it very hard to believe there are only 2 short video clips of Woody Guthrie.

[JMinIND]

It's a crying shame too. Not much footage of Hank or Jimmy Rodgers either.

[Dustpan04347]

well he was famous when video cameras were scarce. i can't believe i actually found this clip on youtube.

[davevanfunk]

Omigosh! He looks like one of his line drawings!

[davidsquall351]

this is great.

[KnockelII]

No great artist by any means, but historically it is interesting.

[ikekll]

"In 1903, John D. Rockefeller bought the Pueblo based Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, the largest coal, iron ore and steel producing operation in the western US. Trinidad, in Las Animas County was the center of the coal operations. Steadfastly anti-union, the Company had virtual control of the social, economic and political life of the County. Miners lived in cheap housing owned...

[ikekll]

by the Company, were paid in scrip (a form of currency redeemable only at the company store), and doctors, priests, school teachers, and law enforcement officers were all company employees (1). The company towns (the "camps") were enclosed, gated communities. The miners were virtually prisoners of the Company.

[ikekll]

Coal Crackdown in West Virginia

Allegations that a large coal company used its wealth to win over high court.

04/07/2008 From: World News Tonight with Charles Gibson

[ikekll]

a . abcnews . com / wn / altindex

Index to several articles

[ikekll]

1913 Massacre

by Woody Guthrie

Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen

To Calumet, Michigan in the copper country

I'll take you to a place called Italian Hall

And the miners are having their big Christmas ball

I'll take you in a door and up a high stairs

Singing and dancing is heard ev'rywhere

I'll let you shake hands with the people you see...

[rdrcoop]

Woody Guthrie rules!!!!!!!!!....Abe Lincoln is a traitor mother fucker. Sold us out to the the Rothschilds.

[samhuggies]

what song is this?

[lupine22]

"Ranger's Command"

[mark1800]

Sad to see the clip ended with him being pummeled by a steam train... RIP!

[alomhaom]

lol

[GenericGrayBox]

This man was real people. His family are real people. His music is real. Great man. We all should try to be real people.

[urbanfleur]

wow

[blacktrikes]

Woody will never die. Thanks 4 postin'

[lonelywan]

Woody was only in it for the chicks and the money. See my band's version of "Come On Day" (at my youtube page) for some honest, down home, traditional bluegrass pickin'.

[ROBERTTHESCEPTIC]

He is dead

[couscouswoman]

Woody Guthrie is the soul of America. Woody Guthrie stands next to Lincoln in Heaven.

[CadillacL]

makes me wan to sing "This Land is your Land"

[AngelWest]

WOW! I've never seen him perform.

[tomjoad1234]

This is one of the most amazing pieces of footage ever..

[Drackula]

hey hey woody guthrie i wrote you a song.

[olgaicannot]

I love you, Woody.

[drive2233]

May he always be remembered, rest now Woody...

[tonkertim]

Incredible clip!!!

Many, many thanks

xxx

[MySerpentine]

This is the truth of America, the beauty that has mostly been forgotten.

[michelecroft]

this machine kills fascists. Interesting how sound and video were recorded simaltaneously but on different mediums.

[wibba]

Made me cry

[Texasjim2007]

The final closing lines of this song are

"she rose from her warm bed

with a gun in each hand

said come all of you cowboys

and fight for your land

come all of you cowboys

and don't ever run

as long as there's bullets

in both of your guns."

I used to sing it to myself on guard duty in the 101st Airborne all the time. I love this song. May have been the last some guys heard.

[bluegrasslives2]

Thanks, for putting it on here, its great!!!

[Texasjim2007]

The verse leading up to this goes

"I met a fair maiden

her name I don't know

I asked her to the roundup

with me would she go.

She said she'd go with me

to that old round up

and drink that hard liquor

from a cold bitter cup.

[Texasjim2007]

Rangers Command

(1st Verse recalled from Joan Baez version)

Come all of you cowboys

all over this land

and I'll sing

you the law of the Rangers Command

Hold your six shooter

and don't ever run

as long as there's bullets

in both of your guns.

[Wowzakazoo]

Shoot, Arlo sounds so much like his Dad...

[aliensatemybrain]

woody is a legend

[folksinger2891]

great!

[jimhaas3]

God bless his soul. Thanks for posting this one...

[garyjg]

this machine kills facists - still applies

[Kantarellmannen]

Magic. Anyone knows the name of the song?

[giap01]

RANGER'S COMMAND

And the rustlers broke on us in the dead hours of night

She 'rose from her warm bed, a battle to fight.

She 'rose from her warm bed with a gun in each hand,

Said:"Come all you cowboys and fight for your land".

[Kantarellmannen]

Thank you very much! :)

[AcePilot101]

Woody rules folk music.

Bob Dylan was his greatest fan.

America belongs to the people, not the

corporations and banks!!

[sleestack]

god, amen to that brother. We need a revolution.

[Leadingnorth]

Thank!!

[digby33]

"Ranger's Command"

[Henrikfack]

breathtaking, What a godlike voice..got goosebumps allover me!

[joerokokovich]

Like the double foot tap...

[Abbelin]

Woody's the fuckin man!

[cindyshealed]

It took guts to be Woody. Bless him.

[soccerfanme]

reckonman, you aint worth a dam.

[Icosohedron]

Great. I've seen the other clip of Woody (with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee). But never knew about this one. Thanks.