''I never dread the day that I will die/Because my sunset is somebody's morning sky,'' Woody Guthrie wrote in his journal on April 17, 1942. More than six decades later those words became the bridge in ''My Battle,'' an unpublished Guthrie lyric set to music by the folk-rock singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke and recorded on her 2008 album, ''The...
To the Editor: I was delighted to read your Jan. 2 editorial ''Homeward Goes the Dust Bowl Balladeer.'' As the organizer of the University of Tulsa's ''Different Shades of Red'' symposium commemorating the centennial of Woody Guthrie's birth, to be held March 9 and 10, I can report with great confidence our intention to present Oklahoma's native...
The news that Oklahoma is now ready to accept and celebrate Woody Guthrie, the seminal American folk singer who died in 1967, as a native son with an exhibition and a study center for his archives is welcome if long overdue. The state resisted honoring him for decades, because of his leftist politics. ''I ain't a Communist necessarily,'' Guthrie...
Woodrow Wilson 'Woody' Guthrie (14. juli 1912 i Okemah, Oklahoma - 3. oktober 1967 på Queens Hospital i New York) var en amerikansk protestsanger og sangskriver.