Woody Guthrie's Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, childhood home as it appeared in 1979

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.

On January 20, 1968, three months after Guthrie's death, Harold Leventhal produced A Tribute to Woody Guthrie at New York City's Carnegie Hall.

In addition to LaFave, members of the rotating cast included Ellis Paul, Slaid Cleaves, Eliza Gilkyson, Joel Rafael, husband-wife duo Sarah Lee Guthrie ( Woody Guthrie's granddaughter ) and Johnny Irion, Michael Fracasso, and The Burns Sisters.

Norman revealed that " I recorded " This Land Is Your Land " and " They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave " with a guitar I borrowed that was Woody Guthrie's ; found broken in a field with a bird nest inside.

Folk singer Woody Guthrie's song, " 1913 Massacre ", is based on this event.

* Woody Guthrie's " Bound For Glory " and " The Ballad Of Tom Joad "

Bound for Glory is a 1976 American film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's 1943 autobiography Bound for Glory.

In 1940 under Lomax's supervision, RCA made two groundbreaking suites of commercial folk music recordings: Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads and Lead Belly's Midnight Special and Other Southern Prison Songs.

Formed under the name " The Nightlife Thugs ," the group agreed on the name change to the " Boomtown Rats " after a gang that Geldof read about in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Bound for Glory.

Franklin, a teenaged African-American actor, plays a character called Woody, referencing Woody Guthrie's influence on Dylan's early career, and making a playful visual joke on Dylan's early habit of passing himself off as a drifter from the Dustbowl Southern states and denying his own middle-class Mid-Western origins.

When the USA entered the European war after Germany's post-Pearl Harbor declaration of war in December 1941, the Almanacs recorded a new topical album for Keynote in support of the war effort, Dear Mr. President, under the supervision of Earl Robinson, that included Woody Guthrie's " Reuben James " ( 1942 ).

Woody Guthrie's " This Land Is Your Land " is one of the U. S. most famous folk songs and the lyrics describe his sympathetic views of communism.

Woody Guthrie's autobiographical novel Seeds of Man begins with Woody and his uncle Jeff tapping a natural gas pipeline for drip gas.

Dylan presents Gallo as an outlaw with morals, in the tradition of songs like Woody Guthrie's " Pretty Boy Floyd ".

For the 2004 presidential election, JibJab created a Flash movie entitled This Land, which featured George W. Bush and John Kerry singing a parody of Woody Guthrie's song " This Land Is Your Land.

It saw widespread use after the Iroquois Theater Fire in Chicago, Illinois, USA, which killed 602 people on December 30, 1903, and the Italian Hall Disaster in Calumet, Michigan on Christmas Eve 1913 ( popularized by Woody Guthrie's song, " 1913 Massacre ").

As noted in the New York Times by William Hogeland, the Bottle Rockets ' songwriting has been likened to Woody Guthrie's folk style in spirit, smarts, and satire.

Together they recorded Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah ( 2004 ) and Wonder Wheel ( 2006 ) which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music Album.

* Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah ( 2004 limited issue, reissued 2006 with 4 additional tracks ) by The Klezmatics ( guest appearance by Susan )

Then he was joined by the band for a few numbers, and the finale, Woody Guthrie's ' This Land Is Your Land ,' featuring everyone on stage from Allen Ginsberg to Bob's mother Beattie one night.

* April 14 – Dust Bowl: The great dust storm, made famous by Woody Guthrie in his " dust bowl ballads ", hits eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma the hardest.

The work of independent artists, such as American novelist John Steinbeck's novels Of Mice and Men ( 1937 ) and The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ), and the music of folk singer Woody Guthrie, was also influenced by the crises of the Dust Bowl and the Depression.

* Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads

* Strode, Woody ; with Young, Sam ( 1990 ) Goal Dust.

* " Talking Dust Bowl Blues " ( 1940 ), " Talking Fishing Blues ", " Talking Centralia ", " Talking Columbia ", " Talking Hard Work ", " Talking Sailor ", and " Talking Subway " by Woody Guthrie.

" The Blinding of Isaac Woodard " is a song written by folk performer Woody Guthrie for his 1946 album The Great Dust Storm ( the song does not actually appear on the album, however ).

It was unusual because the initial UK release, on Dawn Records ( a new label launched by Pye ), was a maxi-single, playing at 33 rpm ( whereas singles generally played at 45 rpm ), including an additional song, " Mighty Man " ( also written by Dorset ) on the A-side, and a much longer track, the Woody Guthrie song " Dust Pneumonia Blues ", on the B-side.

In the Super Bowl on February 3, 2008 during the 3rd quarter, Buzz and Woody are watching the Super Bowl and then watch a promo for WALL-E, who is playing with a vacuum.

Legendary coach Woody Hayes led Ohio State to the Rose Bowl from 1973 – 1976, while USC head coach Pete Carroll led the Trojans to the Rose Bowl from 2006 – 2009.

During the 1978 Gator Bowl, Jackson missed Ohio State Head Coach Woody Hayes ' infamous punch of Clemson defensive lineman Charlie Bauman.

* December 29, 1978: Gator Bowl – Ohio State vs. Clemson ( Woody Hayes ' infamous last game )

Koppen entered the 2003 season as the backup to Pro Bowl center Damien Woody ; however, Woody missed Week 2 with an injury, giving an opportunity for Koppen to start his first NFL game.

Woody returned the next week, but a season-ending injury to starting guard Mike Compton allowed Woody to slide to the guard position and Koppen to start the remainder of the season at center, including the Patriots ' Super Bowl XXXVIII win over the Carolina Panthers.

A Pro Bowl selection in 2002, Woody won two Super Bowl rings with the Patriots.

Two years later, she married Woody McCorvey ( born 1940 ), but left him after he abused her.

Woody was created in 1940 by Lantz and storyboard artist Ben " Bugs " Hardaway, who had previously laid the groundwork for two other screwball characters, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the late 1930s.

Woody Woodpecker first appeared in the film Knock Knock on November 25, 1940.

The Almanac Singers was an American New York City-based folk music group, active between 1940 and 1943, founded by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie.

Almanac members Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie began playing together informally in 1940 or 1941.

Its lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody, in critical response to Irving Berlin's " God Bless America ", which Guthrie considered unrealistic and complacent.

The cartoon is noted for being the first appearance of Woody Woodpecker, and was released by Universal Pictures on November 25, 1940.

The rabbit's hyperactive personality and laughing voice provided by Mel Blanc predated the 1940 Walter Lantz / Universal Pictures release Knock Knock which starred Andy Panda and introduced cartoon audiences to Woody Woodpecker which was created for the Lantz studio by Hardaway after his departure from the Leon Schlesinger / Warner Brothers studio.

The 1940 Andy Panda short Knock Knock featured the first appearance of Lantz's most famous character, Woody Woodpecker.