Woody Guthrie: Vintage Performance Footage

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Woody Guthrie performing an adaptation of "East Virginia Blues" ("South Carolina Blues") with Baldwin "Butch" Hawes and "John Henry" with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

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Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land", which is regularly sung in American schools. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress.

Since his death, artists have paid tribute to Guthrie by covering his songs or by dedicating songs to him. One of the first artists to do so was Scottish folk artist Donovan, who covered Guthrie's "Car, Car (Riding in My Car)" on his 1965 debut album What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid. On January 20, 1968, three months following Guthrie's death, Harold Leventhal produced A Tribute to Woody Guthrie at New York City's Carnegie Hall. Performers included Jack Elliott, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Bob Dylan and The Band, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Odetta, and others. Leventhal repeated the tribute on September 12, 1970 at the Hollywood Bowl. Recordings of the two concerts were eventually compiled as an album. The legendary Irish folk singer, Christy Moore, was also strongly influenced by Woody in his seminal 1970 album Prosperous, giving renditions of "The Ludlow Massacre" and Bob Dylan's "Song to Woody." Bruce Springsteen also performed a cover of Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" on his live album Live 1975-1985. In the introduction to the song, Springsteen referred to it as "just about one of the most beautiful songs ever written."

In September 1996 Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case Western Reserve University cohosted Hard Travelin': The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie, a 10-day conference of panel sessions, lectures, and concerts. The conference became the first in what would become the museum's annual American Music Masters Series conference. Highlights included Arlo Guthrie's keynote address, a Saturday night musical jamboree at Cleveland's Odeon Theater, and a Sunday night concert at Severance Hall, the home of the Cleveland Orchestra. Musicians performing over the course of the conference included Arlo Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, the Indigo Girls, Ellis Paul, Jimmy LaFave, Ani DiFranco, and others. In 1999, Wesleyan University Press published a collection of essays from the conference and DiFranco's record label, Righteous Babe, released a compilation of the Severance Hall concert, 'Til We Outnumber 'Em, in 2000.

From 1999 to 2002 the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service presented the traveling exhibit, This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie. In collaboration with Nora Guthrie, the Smithsonian exhibition draws from rarely seen objects, illustrations, film footage, and recorded performances to reveal a complex man who was at once poet, musician, protester, idealist, itinerant hobo, and folk legend.

Nashville Sings Woody was yet another tribute concert to commemorate the music of Woody Guthrie held during the Folk Alliance Conference. The cast of Nashville Sings Woody, a benefit for the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives, also included Arlo Guthrie, Marty Stuart, Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Janis Ian, and others.

Woody and Marjorie Guthrie were honored at a musical celebration featuring Billy Bragg and the band Brad on October 17, 2007 at Webster Hall in New York City. Steve Earle also performed. The event was hosted by actor/activist Tim Robbins to benefit the Huntington¹s Disease Society of America to commemorate the organization's 40th Anniversary.

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[TheHippie27]

I looove woody, its a shame more footage of the guy doesn't exist

II'm all into the old music and seeing footage of them just brings them to life for me.

[phriendlyphool]

awesome...Woody was the man...same with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

[cindyshealed]

I'm glad to find another bit of actual Woody footage.  Thank you. :-)

[jamesmandolin]

Absolutely fantastic - thank you so much for posting this! Such a rare treat, the warmth of the playing is incredible.. he was an amazing talent and fighter.

[unclebobunclebob]

@duneduder what the hell is caputilism?

[blobatax]

what TWO SHORT-DICK bastards would dislike this video?! oh wait, i need to level up in call of duty...

[quipper8]

@thegoodgrief greenback dollar

[quad1000]

I'm slow on the draw, but gosh darn is that Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee? Sure sounds like 'em WOW.

[duneduder]

Lady Gag and her shallow like should have to watch this stuff while they collect their millions and bizzilions. Music CAN change society for the better, and Woody, Mr. Seeger and so many more have proved it. A shame how caputilism has dumbed down things. I'll take substance over posing any day...

[smp156]

where did you get this?

can you re-post with better audio?

i'm almost in tears.

please, Please, PLEASE "thefilmarchive"?

[mccolml]

Does anyone know if I can purchase this film? What's the name of it?