Biography

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.

Top Tracks

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• 1913 Massacre

• Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way

• Black Diamond

• Black Jack Davis (gypsy Davy)

• Boll Weevil

• Boll Weevil Blues

• Buffalo Skinners

• Bury Me Beneath The Willow

• Columbia River

• Cumberland Gap

• Danville Girl

• Danville Girl, No. 2

• Do-re-mi

• Dust Pneumonia Blues

• Ezekial Saw The Wheel

• Get Along Little Doggies

• Go Tell Aunt Rhody

• Going Down The Road Feeling Bad

• Goodnight Irene

• Grand Coulee Dam

• Grand Coulee Damn

• Gypsy Davey

• Gypsy Davy

• Hard Travelin'

• Hard, Ain't It Hard

• Hobo's Lullaby

• House Of The Rising Sun

• How Long

• Howdido

• Howdjadoo

• I Ain't Got No Home

• I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore

• I Ride An Old Paint

• I Want My Milk (i Want It Now)

• It Takes A Married Man To Sing A Worried Song

• Jesse James

• Jesus Christ

• John Henry

• Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy

• Little Black Train

• Long Ways To Travel

• Lost John

• Mean Talking Blues

• More Pretty Girls Than One

• My Daddy (flies A Ship In The Sky)

• Pastures Of Plenty

• Philadelphia Lawyer

• Pretty Boy Floyd

• Put Your Finger In The Air

• Rattle My Rattle

• Red Wine

• Riding In My Car (car Song)

• Riding In My Car (car, Car)

• Roll On Columbia

• So Long (it's Been Good To Know Yuh)

• Stack-o-lee

• Talking Centralia

• Talking Columbia

• Talking Dust Bowl Blues

• Talking Hard Work

• The Boll Weevil Blues

• The Grand Coulee Dam

• The Midnight Special

• The Wreck Of The Old '97

• This Land Is Your Land

• This Train Is Bound For Glory

• Tom Joad

• Tom Joad (pt. 1)

• Tom Joad (pt. 2)

• Tom Joad, Pt. 1

• Tom Joad, Pt. 2

• Two Good Men

• Union Maid

• Vigilante Man

• We Shall Be Free

• Whoopie-ti-yi-yo, Get Along Little Dogies

• Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?

• Why, Oh Why

• Worried Man Blues

• Wreck Of The Old '97

Discography

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• The Science of Sound

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1993

• Grow Big Songs, Vol. 2

  Warner Bros.

  1992

• Grow Big Songs, Vol. 1

  Warner Bros.

  1992

• Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs

  Warner Bros.

  1992

• Songs from Bound to Glory

  Warner Bros.

  1977

• Struggle

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1976

• Bonneville Dam and Other Columbia River Songs

  Verve Folkways

  1965

• Library of Congress Recordings, Vols. 1-3

  Rounder Select / Rounder

  1964

• Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Vol .2

  Folkways

  1964

• Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1962

• American History in Ballad & Song, Vol. 2

  Folkways

  1962

• Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1960

• American History in Ballad & Song, Vol. 1

  Folkways

  1960

• Nursery Days

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1958

• Bound for Glory

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1958

• Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / Rounder

  1956

• Southern Mountain Hoedowns

  Stinson

  1953

• Songs to Grow On, Vol. 3: This Land Is My Land

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1951

• Talking Dust Bowl

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1950