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Woody Guthrie - This Machine Kills Fascists

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Arthur Dubinsky took these photos of Woody Guthrie in New York City’s Washington Square Park in 1954. In the photo below Guthrie is jamming with Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, which the uncropped photo at the very bottom makes clear. There’s very little info on Dubinsky available on the Internet other than that he lived in New York City for awhile and later in Los Angeles. I wonder what other photos he may have taken. He was in the right place at the right time and based on these remarkable shots…

The daughter of Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt, dancer with the Martha Graham Troupe, mother of Arlo, Nora & Joady, she was the first champion of Woody and the Woody Guthrie legacy Videos by American Songwriter It’s New York City, 1981, and we’re more than twenty floors up above 57th Street and the everyday mayhem of Manhattan. But here there […]

So familiar are his songs, Woody Guthrie (1912-67)

Before the folk legend succumbed to Huntington's disease, he performed an informal concert in a remarkable place with Pete Seeger and Rev. Gary Davis.

May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month. During this month, we want to recognize the work […]

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It is sometimes hard to believe that one month in the life of a twenty-eight-year-old Oklahoma-born folk singer could have a lasting impact on an entire geogra…