Charley and Nora Guthrie named their son after the Democrat elected president that year. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie knew hard times as a youngster (his house burned down, his sister Clara burned to death, his father's small-town business and political careers never went anywhere, his mother suffered from undiagnosed Huntington's Disease and was declared insane)...See full bio »
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
(2005)
(writer: "John Henry", "Jesus Christ", "Talking Columbia" and "Pastures of Plenty", "Ramblin' Round", "This Land Is Your Land", "Dust Bowl Refugee", "1913 Massacre" / performer: "John Henry", "Jesus Christ", "Talking Columbia" and "Pastures of Plenty", "1913 Massacre")
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Mr. and Mrs. Who?
(1979)
(writer: "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh")
1976Bound for Glory
(writer: "Hard Travelin'", "This Train Is Bound for Glory", "I Ain't Got No Home", "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh", "Pastures of Plenty", "Do Re Mi", "Oklahoma Hills", "Howdido", "Deportee Plane Wreck at Los Gatos", "Curly Headed Baby", "Talking Dust Bowl Blues", "This Land Is Your Land", "Jesus Christ", "Taking It Easy", "Lonesome Valley", "Union Maid", "Better World", "Gypsy Davy", "Tom Joad", "Blowin' Down the Dusty Old Road", "The Sinking of the Reuben James" / lyrics: "Roll On, Columbia" / performer: "This Land Is Your Land")
1975Brother Can You Spare a Dime
(documentary)
(writer: "Dust Can't Kill Me" 1938, "Vigilante Man" 1939 / performer: "Dust Can't Kill Me" 1938, "Vigilante Man" 1939)
[from a scribbled lyric discovered in a notebook in his archives] I am the works, the whole works. The saint, the sinner, the drinker, the thinker.
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Trivia:
His guitar was inscribed with the words, "This machine kills fascists."
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Trademark:
Uplifting songs about working-class people
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