Woody Guthrie

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1912

Active to

1967

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Listeners

563,129

Total plays

7,307,439

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 - October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and writer associated with American folk music. His work addressed subjects including economic inequality, labor rights, migration, anti-fascism, and social justice. He is known for songs such as "This Land Is Your Land", "Tear the Fascists Down", "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On", and "Pastures of Plenty". Guthrie wrote hundreds of songs, including folk, country, protest, and children's music, as w

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Review of Particle Physics

   · 2018 · cited 5,699x

2. Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study

   · 2012 · cited 5,647x

3. Protein and ligand preparation: parameters, protocols, and influence on virtual screening enrichments

   · 2013 · cited 5,503x

4. Review of Particle Physics

   · 2012 · cited 5,090x

5. Review of Particle Physics

   · 2008 · cited 4,177x

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Quotes

• “This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.”
• “One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple By the Relief Office I saw my people — As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.”
• “All you can write is what you see.”
• “THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS.”
• “I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes I slept on the ground in the light of the moon On the edge of the city you'll see us and then We come with the dust and we go with the wind”
• “I'm blowing, and just as wild and whirling as you are, and lots of times I've been picked up, throwed down, and picked up; but my eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls...”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.woodyguthrie.org

Image

Woody Guthrie.jpg

Number of children

2

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