Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial

Performer: Woody Guthrie
Producer: Robert Santelli; Jeff Place...
Distributor: ADA

Notes: Woody Guthrie defined an era in his Dust Bowl ballads, outlaw tales, work and labor songs, antiwar songs, children's songs, political songs, and a host of love songs and songs that touched on philosophy, geography, and the hard work of living day to day in an emerging industrial world. This set, issued for Guthrie's centennial year, captures the whole story, including previously unreleased recordings of Guthrie's earliest material, made in 1937 when he was working for a radio station in Los Angeles.

Rolling Stone (p.72) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[S]umptuous....That moral spine and Guthrie's poetic way with the vernacular were central to the folk revival....WOODY AT 100 is the pure, charged source of that legacy..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.101) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[Guthrie was] a real life Huck Finn with a voice like an oily rag, who charmed all-comers with a combination of intensely human songwriting and wry wit..."

American folk music has produced few artists as gifted and complex as Woody Guthrie. As a songwriter, storyteller, and provocateur, Guthrie had few equals. Born in Oklahoma in 1912, he became a wandering troubadour in his teens, and during the 1930s and 1940s, he amassed a huge body of songs about the social injustices he observed. His genius lay in his gift for seamlessly integrating his leftist political principles into simple, catchy songs for and about common folks. Guthrie was a tireless crusader for political causes from unions to migrant workers. His Dust Bowl troubadour sound influenced everyone from Bob Dylan to Pete Seeger.

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