Woody Guthrie
Author
Publisher
TRO Essex Music Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
(Richmond Music Folios). 2012 would have been the 100th birthday of American singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie. To mark his extraordinary achievements in songwriting, we are releasing this cetennial 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invitation of Guthrie's daughter, Nora Guthrie, contemporary singer/songwriters have set music to Guthrie's previously unpublished lyrics.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...
2) Bound for Glory: The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer
Author
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
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"--
14) Bound for glory
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
Autobiography of the life of folk singer, Woody Guthrie.
16) New baby train
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated version of the song that answers the question "Where do little babies really come from?"
17) Bling blang
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations accompany the words to Woody Guthrie's song about building a house for baby.
