History Music / WoodyGuthrie

* ShoutOut: Plenty.
** Music/BobDylan's first two albums, ''[[Music/BobDylanAlbum Bob Dylan]]'' and ''Music/TheFreewheelinBobDylan'' are very influenced by his musical idol. Dylan sings in a similar drawl as Guthrie and "Song For Woody" is a {{Homage}}. On ''Music/Highway61Revisited'' the song "Tombstone Blues" has a line refering to "Gypsy Davy", a Guthrie song:
--> ''Gypsy Davey with a blowtorch he bums out their camps''
*** Dylan also wrote the poem "Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie" (1963), available in "The Bootleg Series, Volume 1-3" (1991).
** The 1976 film ''Film/BoundForGlory'', directed by Hal Ashby, starring Creator/DavidCarradine, is about Guthrie's career as a folk singer and union activist during TheGreatDepression. The film opens with Guthrie struggling to survive in the Dust Bowl in Texas in 1936. He struggles to find work as a singer or sign painter, but comes up empty. Needing to support his wife Mary and two children, Guthrie lights out to California, meeting people along the way and seeing the poverty and desperation afflicting so many in America in TheThirties.
** "Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight" and "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" by Music/DropkickMurphys are both based on an unfinished song by Guthrie.
** Music/OldCrowMedicineShow covered "Union Maid" on their 2006 album Big Iron World).
** Music/ThePogues covered Guthrie's song "UsefulNotes/JesseJames" on their album "Rum, Sodomy & The Lash".
** The Mermaid Avenue albums by Music/BillyBragg and Music/{{Wilco}}, which set old unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics to new music.
** In the odd Bob Dylan biopic ''Film/ImNotThere'' Woody Guthrie (Marcus Carl Franklin) is a black 11-year old boy traveling across America trying to find his place. He represents Dylan's MysteriousPast and lies.

-->-- '''Woody Guthrie''' on songwritning

** The 1976 film ''Film/BoundForGlory'', directed by Hal Ashby, starring David Carradine, is about Guthrie's career as a folk singer and union activist during TheGreatDepression. The film opens with Guthrie struggling to survive in the Dust Bowl in Texas in 1936. He struggles to find work as a singer or sign painter, but comes up empty. Needing to support his wife Mary and two children, Guthrie lights out to California, meeting people along the way and seeing the poverty and desperation afflicting so many in America in TheThirties.

** The 1976 film ''Film/BoundForGlory'', directed by Hal Ashby, starring David Carradine, is about Guthrie's career as a folk singer and union activist during UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression. The film opens with Guthrie struggling to survive in the Dust Bowl in Texas in 1936. He struggles to find work as a singer or sign painter, but comes up empty. Needing to support his wife Mary and two children, Guthrie lights out to California, meeting people along the way and seeing the poverty and desperation afflicting so many in America in TheThirties.

Woody Guthrie sang both traditionals as well as writing his own material. His songs are very center wing in nature and sympathize with the common man suffering under poverty, unemployment, racism, war, dictatorship and not being able to voice his opinions.

Woody Guthrie sang both traditionals as well as writing his own material. His songs are very left wing in nature and sympathize with the common man suffering under poverty, unemployment, racism, war, dictatorship and not being able to voice his opinions.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Guthrie's songs reflect the time they were written in. He wrote songs about WorldWarTwo, the Communist Witch Hunts near the end of the 1940s and early 1950s, the civil rights movements, UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, Pretty Boy Floyd,... He even wrote a song about the [[AmazonBrigade female Soviet sniper]] Lyudmila Pavlicenko.

Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (1912–1967) was an American FolkMusic singer, seen as one of the most powerful and influential musicians of his day, and a huge troublemaker against the forces of bullshit. He was a major inspiration for a lot of folk and [[ProtestSong protest singers]], among them Music/BobDylan, who saw him as his personal hero.

His SignatureSong, "This Land Is Your Land" is still a standard, though in the original context it was actually a ProtestSong instead of a PatrioticFervor song. He originally wrote it as a Take That to Music/IrvingBerlin's "God Bless America"[[note]]The revised version of "God Bless America" was released just two years before "This Land is Your Land" was[[/note]], responding to the song's nationalist undertones by singing about the importance of America's diversity and sense of inclusiveness. Hell, some early versions of the song are overtly political in nature—and a few of them even mention Guthrie's support of the Communist Party.

In 1998, a massive collection of lyrics he never set to music was recorded at last as a collaboration between Music/{{Wilco}} and Music/BillyBragg. His son, Arlo Guthrie, became a musician himself and is most famous for his album ''[[Music/AlicesRestaurant Alice's Restaurant]]''.

'''Woody Guthrie albums with their own page'''

His SignatureSong, "This Land Is Your Land" is still a standard, though in the original context it was actually a ProtestSong instead of a PatrioticFervor song. He originally wrote it as a Take That to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"[[note]]The revised version of "God Bless America" was released just two years before "This Land is Your Land" was[[/note]], responding to the song's nationalist undertones by singing about the importance of America's diversity and sense of inclusiveness. Hell, some early versions of the song are overtly political in nature—and a few of them even mention Guthrie's support of the Communist Party.

Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (1912–1967) was an American FolkMusic singer, seen as one of the most powerful and influential musicians of his day. He was a major inspiration for a lot of folk and [[ProtestSong protest singers]], among them Music/BobDylan, who saw him as his personal hero.

'''Woody Guthrie''' (1912–1967) was an American FolkMusic singer, seen as one of the most powerful and influential musicians of his day. He was a major inspiration for a lot of folk and [[ProtestSong protest singers]], among them Music/BobDylan, who saw him as his personal hero.

* CoverSong: He covered a lot of traditionals, like "The House of The Rising Sun", "When The Saints Go Marching In", "Polly Wolly Doodle",...

* JesusWasWayCool: "Jesus Christ" depicts Christ as a socialist rebel killed for speaking truth to power (and notably makes no reference to his resurrection).Guthrie also wrote a song called "Christ for President," later recorded by Wilco as part of Mermaid Avenue. President Christ promises "a job and pension for young and old."

'''Woody Guthrie''' (1912-1967) was an American FolkMusic singer, seen as one of the most powerful and influential musicians of his day. He was a major inspiration for a lot of folk and [[ProtestSong protest singers]], among them Music/BobDylan, who saw him as his personal hero.

* BadassBoast: His guitar was famously labeled as "This Machine Kills Fascists".

His son, Arlo Guthrie, became a musician himself and is most famous for his album ''[[Music/AlicesRestaurant Alice's Restaurant]]''.

His son, Arlo Guthrie, became a musician himself and is most famous for his album ''Music/AlicesRestaurant''.

His son, Music/ArloGuthrie, became a musician himself and is most famous for his album ''Music/AlicesRestaurant''.

ShoutOut: Plenty.
* Music/BobDylan's first two albums, ''[[Music/BobDylanAlbum Bob Dylan]]'' and ''Music/TheFreewheelinBobDylan'' are very influenced by his musical idol. Dylan sings in a similar drawl as Guthrie and "Song For Woody" is a {{Homage}}. On ''Music/Highway61Revisited'' the song "Tombstone Blues" has a line reffering to "Gypsy Davy", a Guthrie song:

** Dylan also wrote the poem "Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie" (1963), available in "The Bootleg Series, Volume 1-3" (1991).
* The 1976 film ''Film/BoundForGlory'', directed by Hal Ashby, starring David Carradine, is about Guthrie's career as a folk singer and union activist during UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression. The film opens with Guthrie struggling to survive in the Dust Bowl in Texas in 1936. He struggles to find work as a singer or sign painter, but comes up empty. Needing to support his wife Mary and two children, Guthrie lights out to California, meeting people along the way and seeing the poverty and desperation afflicting so many in America in TheThirties.
* "Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight" and "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" by Music/DropkickMurphys are both based on an unfinished song by Guthrie.
* Music/OldCrowMedicineShow covered "Union Maid" on their 2006 album Big Iron World).
* Music/ThePogues covered Guthrie's song "UsefulNotes/JesseJames" on their album "Run, Sodomy & The Lash".
* The Mermaid Avenue albums by Music/BillyBragg and Music/{{Wilco}}, which set old unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics to new music.
* In the odd Bob Dylan biopic ''Film/ImNotThere'' Woody Guthrie (Marcus Carl Franklin) is a black 11-year old boy traveling across America trying to find his place. He represents Dylan's MysteriousPast and lies.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: A lot of modern renditions of "This Land is Your Land" omit the scathing verses.

'''Woody Guthrie''' (1912-1967) was an American FolkMusic singer, seen as one of the most powerful and influential musicians of his day. He was a major inspiration for a lot of [[ProtestSong protest singers]], among them Music/BobDylan, who saw him as his personal hero.

'''Woody Guthrie in popular culture'''

* CoverSong: He covered a lot of traditionals, like "House of The Risin' Sun", "When The Saints Go Marchin' In", "Polly Wolly Doodle",...

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Guthrie's songs reflect the time they were written in. He wrote songs about WorldWarTwo, the Communist Witch Hunts near the end of the 1940s and early 1950s, the Afro-American civil rights movements, UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid, Pretty Boy Floyd,... He even wrote a song about the [[AmazonBrigade female Soviet sniper]] Lyudmila Pavlicenko.
* SecondVerseCurse: "This Land Is Your Land". The first verse is actually very patriotic, but the second verse, which is rarely sang is actually critical of the USA.
--> ''They put a big wall there, to try and stop me''
--> ''There was a sign there, said 'Private Property' ''
--> ''But on the back side, it didn't say nothin' ''
--> ''That side was made for you and me.''

'''Woody Guthrie''' (1912-1967) was an American FolkMusic singer, seen as one of the most powerful and influential musicians of his day. He was a major inspiration for a lot of [[ProtestSong protest singers]], among them Music/BobDylan who saw him as his personal hero.

His SignatureSong, "This Land Is Your Land" is still a standard, though in the original context it was actually a ProtestSong instead of a PatrioticFervor song. He originally wrote it as a Take That to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" note The revised version of "God Bless America" was released just two years before "This Land is Your Land" was, responding to the song's nationalist undertones by singing about the importance of America's diversity and sense of inclusiveness. Hell, some early versions of the song are overtly political in nature—and a few of them even mention Guthrie's support of the Communist Party.

* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "This Land Is Your Land", despite being seen as patriotic anthem was in fact written as a critical response to Music/IrvingBerlin's 1938 hit "God Bless America", which Guthrie thought ignored a lot of the problems going on in the country. The song includes lyrics talking about bread lines and class warfare. Then the first three verses were included in a school song book, and it spread as a patriotic ballad as a stealth torpedo, which exploded when Pete Seeger sang all the verses, as Woody wrote them, at Barack Obama's inauguration concert in 2009. PepTalkSong: He believed very much that music should give listeners hope and be uplifting.