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* Industrial Workers of the World & Woody Guthrie
Its roots went earlier, and performers like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Oscar Brand had enjoyed a limited general popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.
Many notable musicians have recorded John Henry ballads, including: Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie.
In 1941, the BPA hired Oklahoma folksinger Woody Guthrie to write songs for a documentary film promoting the benefits of hydropower.
" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".
Woody Guthrie is a great example of a songwriter and artist with such an outlook.
This earlier collection — which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax ’ s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky ( 1937 ) — is the provenance of the American Folklife Center " at the library of Congress
Along the way, McGuinn's original album concept was jettisoned in favor of a fully fledged country project, which included Parsons ' songs such as " One Hundred Years from Now " and " Hickory Wind ", along with compositions by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and others.
In critic Kurt Loder's description, the Sex Pistols purveyed a " calculated, arty nihilism, the Clash were unabashed idealists, proponents of a radical left-wing social critique of a sort that reached back at least to ... Woody Guthrie in the 1940s ".
* Woody Guthrie recorded an excerpt of the Rubaiyat set to music that was released on Hard Travelin ' ( The Asch Recordings Vol.
" In The Last Waltz, Manuel claimed that they wanted to call themselves either " The Honkies " or " The Crackers " ( which they used when backing Dylan for a January 1968 concert tribute to Woody Guthrie ), but these names were vetoed by their record label ; Robertson suggests that during their time with Dylan everyone just referred to them as " the band " and it stuck.
Woodrow Wilson " Woody " Guthrie ( July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967 ) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works.
When Nora Guthrie was institutionalized, Woody Guthrie was 14.
The 14-year-old Woody Guthrie worked odd jobs around Okemah, begging meals and sometimes sleeping at the homes of family friends.
The Woody Guthrie Foundation is a non-profit organization that serves as administrator and caretaker of the Woody Guthrie Archives.
Jonatha Brooke's 2008 album, The Works includes lyrics from the Woody Guthrie Archives set to music by Jonatha Brooke.
The various artists compilation Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie was released in 2011.
The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival is held annually in mid-July to commemorate Guthrie's life and music.
Planned and implemented annually by the Woody Guthrie Coalition, a non-profit corporation, the goal is simply to ensure Guthrie's musical legacy.

Woody and Coalition
Advisors to the Secular Coalition for America are Woody Kaplan, chair ; Rob Boston ; Daniel Dennett ; Richard Dawkins ; Bruce Flamm ; Sam Harris ; Jeff Hawkins ; Susan Jacoby ; Wendy Kaminer ; Michael Newdow ; Massimo Pigliucci ; Steven Pinker ; Salman Rushdie ; Ellery Schempp ; Todd Stiefel ; and Julia Sweeney.

Woody and commissioned
Amram's most recent orchestral works include Giants of the Night, ( commissioned and premiered by flutist Sir James Galway in 2002 ); Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie, ( commissioned by the Woody Guthrie Foundation in 2007 ); and Three Songs: A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra ( written for and premiered by pianist Jon Nakamatsu in 2009 ).
The company also commissioned Yang along with co-writers Brian Yorkey and Woody Pak to write and develop the musicals Making Tracks and The Wedding Banquet ( a musical adaptation of Ang Lee's Academy Award winning film ).
Completed in 1949 for Woody Herman's big band as part of a series of commissioned works — that already included Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto — it was never performed by Herman as the Thundering Herd had disbanded and would reform only 15 years later.

Woody and local
While still in his early teens, he was playing in local clubs, and went on to play with the bands of Woody Herman, Benny Goodman and Maynard Ferguson.
In a classic noir plot, the film stars Woody Harrelson as a falsely accused journalist who was sent to jail after uncovering corruption in the local government.
Born in Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Bradfield attended the local Oakdale Comprehensive School near Blackwood where he suffered years of cruelty and bullying ( he claims he was " a Woody Allen-esque little nerd ") for his name ( Nicknamed Crossfire ), lazy eye, musical bent and small size.
Other regular characters on the show included Jeb, Ryan's hound dog, who, after an accident in Prof. Hart's lab, was now capable of human speech ; Woody Stocker, Kaitlin's wacky hat-loving boss at the Underground Voice Daily ; Percy Rooney, the local mayor's nephew and Kaitlin's bumbling rival reporter ; and Tao, the wise martial arts sensei who owns the dojo and a family friend of the Steele Family.
The Woody Allen film " Radio Days ", which has strong autobiographical elements, includes a scene where Jewish children in 1940's New York City break open a JNF Blue Box and steal its contents-to the local Rabbi's great shock.
Australia's last great Gold Rush did not commence, however, until after Frank Juppurla, a local Indigenous man, took gold to telegraph operator Woody Woodruffe in December 1932..
Current columnists include Woody Paige in sports, Tom Noel on local history, Mike Rosen on the commentary page.
Lou is also pursued by Hank Gordon ( Woody Harrelson ), a local insurance salesman.

Woody and Creek
* January 29 – Plane crash at Los Gatos Creek, California kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a song by Woody Guthrie.
* Woody Creek
* Nitty Gritty Dirt Band covered the song on their album Welcome to Woody Creek in 2004.
An album of all-new material, Welcome to Woody Creek, was released in 2004.
It flows northwest past Aspen, Woody Creek, and Snowmass.
Despite the age difference ( she was 24 years younger than he ), he pursued her, and they dated for ten years before marrying in a private ceremony in Woody Creek, Colorado, where they had a home.
Jimmy traveled to Woody Creek, Colorado in 1994 to meet with Hunter S. Thompson for a memorable weekend in May shortly before he passed on.
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This led to Thompson's house and campaign HQ at Woody Creek taking on the aspect of an armed camp on election night, with guards patrolling the grounds with guns and flashlights.
It includes the communities of St. Barbe, Bartlett's Harbour, Bellburns, Bird Cove, Black Duck Cove, Blue Cove, Brig Bay, Castor River North, Castor River South, Cow Head, Daniel's Harbour, Eddie's Cove West, Forrester ’ s Point, Glenburnie-Birchy Head-Shoal Brook, Hawke's Bay, New Ferrole, Norris Point, Parsons Pond, Pigeon Cove, Plum Point, Pond Cove, Port aux Choix, Port Saunders, Portland Creek, Reef's Harbour, River of Ponds, Rocky Harbour St. Pauls, Sally's Cove, Shoal Cove West, Three Mile Rock, Trout River, Wiltondale, Woody Point.
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* Woody Creek
He starred in director Joel Schumacher's horror film Blood Creek ( 2008 ) and in 2009 he had a minor role in Woody Allen ’ s comedy film Whatever Works.

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