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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Hard hitting songs for hard-hit people
- My Name Is New York
- Woody Guthrie
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1950
children's musiccontemporary folkfolkpoliticalpolitical musicsinger-songwriter
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11,193
- Total plays
- 42,584
Tags
folkUSA1960screepy
Nora Guthrie is the daughter of Woody Guthrie and the sister of Arlo Guthrie. Nora, by training a dancer (her mother had been a member of Martha Graham's troupe), didn't consider herself a singer. Yet, when her 18-year-old song-writing boyfriend wrote some songs, it felt natural that Nora should record them. The result was the 7" single Emily's Illness b/w Home Before Dark released in 1967. In the months leading up to "Emily's Illness", Nora and Eric had become fascinated with the music of Bra
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nora
- Family name
- Guthrie
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Father
- Woody Guthrie
- Sibling
- Arlo Guthrie
- Occupation
- composer
- Image
- Nora Guthrie @ BBF (8024262554).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1950-01-02
- Commons Creator page
- Nora Guthrie
- Commons category
- Nora Guthrie
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