(Strum It (Guitar)). Features authentic chords, strum patterns, melody and lyrics for 20 of the most popular songs (all in their original keys) from this highly influential founding father of folk. Includes: Do Re Mi * Dust Pneumonia Blues * The Grand Coulee Dam * Hard Travelin' * I Ain't Got No Hom[...]

(Richmond Music Folios). A deluxe edition featuring 48 of Guthrie's legendary songs along with a bio, introduction, complete lyrics, a discography, photos and sketches. Songs include: Jig Along Home * Roll On, Columbia * Sinking of the Reuben James * This Land Is Your Land * Tom Joad * and more.[...]

Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is Woody Guthrie's only fully realized novel--a powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, filled with the homespun lyricism and authenticity that have made his songs a part of our national consciousness. It is the story of an ordinary coup[...]

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America--woven together in one epic saga th[...]

Forged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon those songs became the voice of the People - men and women who had seen their lives deracinated and destroyed by the vicissitudes of global economic forces beyond [...]

Woody Guthrie, American Radical reclaims the politically radical profile of America's greatest balladeer. Although he achieved a host of national honors and adorns U.S. postage stamps, and although his song "This Land Is Your Land" is often considered the nation's second national anthem, Woody Guth[...]

Before Springsteen and before Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie. With "This Machine Kills Fascists," scrawled across his guitar in big black letters, Woody Guthrie brilliantly captured in song the experience of twentieth-century America. Whether he sang about union organizers, migrant workers, or war, [...]

With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw figure as cultural myth. Damian A. Carpenter traverses the unsettled outlaw territory that is simultaneously a part of and apart from settled American soc[...]