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Woody Guthrie uses Burl Ives as a pillow while he reads Hobo News.
Woodie Guthrie
(via My Dust Road Boxed Set, Rounder Records)
Woody Guthrie’s business card from his time at KFVD Los Angeles as co-host of the Woody and Lefty Lou show.
(images via, My Dusty Road, Rounder Records; Courtesy of the Woody Guthrie Archives)
Left: Walking in the Wind, Woody Guthrie (1940, ink on paper)
Right: Dream, Woody Guthrie (1942, ink on paper)
Hear more about the life and times of Woody Guthrie on this week’s American Routes.
“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.”
Woody Guthrie—“Jesus Christ”
Bound for Glory: The Songs and Stories of Woody Guthrie (Folkways 1956).
He went to the preacher, He went to the sheriff
He told them all the same
“Sell all of your jewelry and give it to the poor,”
And they laid Jesus Christ in His grave.
