Woody Guthrie, shown here in the 1940s ... “Next thing you know everybody’s got a guitar and harmonica rack,” Place says. The working man’s struggle was Guthrie’s favorite subject ...

following Woody Guthrie from California to New York and beyond. The four singers/actors play a variety of instruments, including fiddle, upright bass, guitar, parlor guitar, harmonica, spoons ...

It’s called “Lift Your Heads” and it’s by a singer-songwriter named Bill Fox, who has just released his latest album, Resonance. For 99.999 percent of the population, this will register as the ...

These strangers had come together for a sing-along. Leader Josh Korr started things off with the classics: “Stand by Me,” “Jolene,” and a kazoo-heavy rendition of “Take on Me.” Then, he decided to try ...

Woody Guthrie told me once that songs don’t have ... guitar was more often supplemented by the whooping thrusts of the harmonica. “Intensity, that’s what he’s got,” Wilson said, apparent ...

Folk music was enjoying a revival when a 19-year-old Dylan rolled into its epicentre in search of his idol Woody Guthrie — or rather the mythic figure from his memoir Bound for Glory.

Somerville then played American folk song “This Land Is Your Land,” by Woody Guthrie, prompting the crowd to sing together in unison. Want more Ann Arbor-area news? Bookmark the local Ann ...

When I first started writing it I was right out of college, and I was very much under the influence of protest music – early Bob Dylan stuff, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie. I was going to protests ...