"Woody Guthrie's memory lives on"
PATRICK CASEY
Associated Press Writer
http://www.news-star.com/stories/111900/ent_woody.shtml


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"Woody Guthrie's memory lives on"
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/music415.htm
(includes pic of Arlo)
in USA TODAY 12/20/00

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"Rebound for Glory: More Thoughts on Woody"
http://www.onthepage.org/outsiders/rebound_for_glory.htm

includes large pic of WG with his guitar:
http://www.onthepage.org/outsiders/woody/woody_guthrie.jpg

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"Guthrie's 'Land' belongs to all"
http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/books/2001-11-15-woody-guthrie-profile.htm

"Woody Guthrie's daughter compiles on disc
father's songs for children"
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=808291&pic=none&TP=getentertainment

"American Voices: Dylan and Guthrie"

the above article appeared in a November 2001 issue of the "Reader's Digest"
http://www.rd.com/common/nav/index.jhtml;jsessionid=LOKSNJAHSMI4ICTENILS HPT5AAAACIY4?articleId=9524633

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I Okemah lever Guthries minne

(this article is in Swedish)
has a nice photo of Nora holding a photo of her dad
http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/Noje/did_1980847.asp

another site with facts about Woody:
(also in Swedish)
has album cover photos of Woody
http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/Noje/did_1981239.asp

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from the Museum of Musical Instruments site:
"Bound For Glory: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie" (an interactive exhibit)
http://www.themomi.org/museum/index2.html

the Guthrie exhibit: http://www.themomi.org/museum/Guthrie/index_1024.html
more exhibits: http://www.themomi.org/museum/exhibitions.html

"Woody lives in Cap Rep's `Song'"
http://www.timesunion.com/aspstories/storyprint.asp?storyKey=75500

"This show was made for you and me"
http://www.timesunion.com/aspstories/storyprint.asp?storyKey=74911

Berkshire Eagle Online

The lost voice of a nation sings in 'Guthrie's American Song'

February 02, 2002

By Jeffrey Borak

Berkshire Eagle Staff

ALBANY, N.Y. -- "You know more about people by the songs you hear them sing than by any words you hear them speak in their native language," folksinger/songwriter Woody Guthrie once wrote. "Unless we do hear the work songs, war songs, love songs, dance songs of all the people everywhere, we are apt to lose the peace, and the world along with it."

Hearing those words in "Woody Guthrie's American Song," a remarkable, solidly crafted and performed musical journey through a formidable period of American history at Capital Repertory Theatre, one wonders what Guthrie -- who died in New York on Oct. 3, 1967 of Huntington's Chorea -- would have made of the music his America is singing these days.

The music, and the words, of Guthrie's songs are credited to him but, by his own reckoning, he had collaborators, thousands of them. They were the people, the average people -- the laborers, the farmers, the migrant workers, Dust Bowl families displaced by the Depression -- whose words and thoughts, even some of their music, found their way into the astonishing body of work Guthrie left behind.

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Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912 in Okemah, Okla., a rough-and-tumble oil town. He moved to Texas and was living there when the Great Depression struck. Guthrie left his family and joined the dust bowl refugees who set out across America in search of work.

Guthrie rode the rails, lived in hobo camps, walked, hitchhiked, became enamored of the open road. While he spent some time in America's cities, chief among them, New York, the open road held an irresistible lure for him. It was the heartland of America.

It was a heartland, a time, a temperament Guthrie came to know very well. He captured it all in songs that not only are richly melodic but also deeply poignant; often filled with wit and an agonizing, painful sense of irony.

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"Woody Guthrie's American Song" -- the title resounds with meaning on several levels -- embraces the landscape of Guthrie's America with remarkable pungency and poignancy, particularly in the first-act finale, a sequence set in a jungle -- hobo camp -- in California. Within the dramatic context established by Peter Glazer, the show's creator and adaptor, the experience marked Guthrie's coming-of-age as a musician. At the same time, the scene captures the wrenching disparities of life in America, reflected in a haunting and powerful rendition of "Pastures of Plenty."

The spirit of America's people -- tough, proud, hopeful, resilient, angry, feisty, compassionate -- resounds in Guthrie's songs. His own voice is heard in a narrative, drawn from a variety of sources, that links the show's scenes and songs.

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For this production, Capital Rep producing artistic director Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill has reassembled the show's original cast under the supervision of tall, lanky David M. Lutken, the production's director and music director and who, as a member of the cast, also carries much of Guthrie's narration, which he shares with Neil Friedman and James J. Stein.

The three men are joined by Mimi Bessette and Marie Boyle Reinman, who has replaced Helen Russell, who left the production after last Sunday's performance. The vocal blend is tight, resonant, lyrical, powerful.

The instrumental and vocal talents of these five are buoyed by a fine three-piece band -- Stan Bronski, Darcie Deaville and Neil Woodward.

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The production has been mounted on an impressively atmospheric and versatile setting by Ted Simpson that makes subtle use of rear projection. Visually, as well as musically, Lutken's production is very much of a piece.

The show loses momentum after the intermission in an overextended sequence chronicling Guthrie's first visit to New York. As a result, the production feels longer than its 21/4 hour running time. Still, "Woody Guthrie's American Song" regains enough lost ground to make it, overall, a richly theatrical affair that evocatively catches the lost voice of a nation. This show was made for you and me.

"This Land is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie" opened
Friday at the Oklahoma Museum of History.
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=820332&pic=none&TP=getentertainment

Smithsonian exhibit on Woody Guthrie stops in Oklahoma
http://www.news-star.com/stories/021002/New_guthrie.shtml

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On October 5, 2001 Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma, FOLIO, designated Okemah as a Literary
Landmark in honor of Woody Guthrie.
http://www.okfriends.net/landmark.htm

"Pampa lays plans for Guthrie center"
Panhandle town hopes to convert old drugstore where he once worked
http://www.news-star.com/ns-search/stories/021302/ent_19.shtml?NS-search-set=/3ca38/aaaa15210a38a9e&NS-doc-offset=0&

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"Discover Oklahoman: Man's early interest
aids Guthrie exhibit"
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=825760&pic=none&TP=getentertainment

A Woody Guthrie Celebration:
Book Talk and Musical Tribute
Monday, April 1 - 6:00 pm
http://www.sfpalm.org/events/individual%20events/Guthrie.htm

SFPALM is located at the corner of Van Ness Avenue and McAllister Street, 401 Van Ness Avenue,
Room 402 of the Veterans Building, located next to the San Francisco Opera House.
http://www.sfpalm.org/about/visiting.htm