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Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), the American musician & songwriter

person, singer, artist, author, musician, musical act, composer, singer-songwriter, busker, lyricist, band member, person that was nominated for an award, honour or prize, person with the star sign cancer

Legal name, Full name: "Woodrow Wilson Guthrie"
Albums: ▶
Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child; Dust Bowl Ballads; Nursery Days; The Asch Recordings; Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti; …
Talking Union & Other Union Songs; House of the Rising Sun; Struggle; Nursery Days; 900 Miles; Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs; Library of Congress Recordings; The Very Best of Woody Guthrie; Cowboy Songs; The Best of the War Years; The Asch Recordings, Volume 3; A Legendary Performer; The Woody Guthrie Story; This Machine Kills Fascists; Hard Travellin'; Long Ways to Travel; Ramblin' Round (disc 2); Members Edition; Pastures of Plenty; The Asch Recordings, Volume 1; The Asch Recordings, Volume 2; Woody Guthrie; Hard Travelin' Man; Dusty Bowl Ballads; The Asch Recordings, Volume 4; The Columbia River Collection; The Very Best of Woody Guthrie; Library of Congress Recordings; The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949
Genre: American folk music, Norae Undong, folk music
Born: ▶
1912; July 1912; July 14th 1912; the United States; North America; …
Oklahoma; the world; the Americas; the Northern Hemisphere; Southwestern United States; the Oklahoma 918 telephone code area; Okfuskee County, OK; Okemah, Oklahoma; North America; the G8; the contiguous United States; the continental United States; the Central Standard Time region; the US dollar zone; the area using the NANP
Died: ▶
1967, October 1967, October 3rd 1967, the United States, New York City, …
New York state, North America, the world, the Americas, the Northern Hemisphere, the Tri-State Region, the area using the NANP, the US dollar zone, the G8, North America, the EST/EDT region, the contiguous United States, the continental United States, Huntington's disease
Wrote: I'm Shipping Up to Boston
Active: 1930 - 1956
Origin: Los Angeles
Occupation: singer, songwriter, opera singer
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
Plays: guitar, mandolin, harmonica, fiddle, Gibson J-45
Gender: male
Nationality: american
Last Name: "Guthrie"
First Name: "Woodrow", "Woody"
Main Occupation: singer-songwriter, sailor
Age at Death: 55 years, 2 months and 19 days old
Class: ▶
singer-songwriter; composer; musician; singer; person; …
artist; busker; lyricist; person with the star sign cancer; author; person that was nominated for an award, honour or prize; band member; musical act
Did: die (1967)
Composed, Lyrics: Pastures of Plenty
Theme of: Bound for Glory
Influenced: ▶
Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, …
Garret Schuelke
Born During: 1910s
Died During: January 1st 1960, 00:00 - December 31st 1969, 23:59
Attributes: male, folk music, Norae Undong, American folk music
Wife: Marjorie Guthrie
Related Websites: ▶
http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/49591/woody-guthrie-in-nyc-1943, http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/G/GU006.html, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwghtml/wwghome.html, http://www.songfacts.com/int/2008/03/anna-canoni-woody-guthrie.html, http://www.folkways.si.edu/searchresults.aspx?sPhrase=woody%20guthrie&sType=, …
http://www.woodyguthrie.com, http://www.woodyguthrie.org, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ok3aw36PsQ
Freebase ID: "/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000040c14"
Influences: Will Rogers, Leadbelly, Joe Hill
OpenCyc ID: "Mx4rvkzPepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Woody_Guthrie
Rare Terms: ▶
"woody guthries", "guthries", "★", "woody guthrie's", "woody", …
"guthrie's", "guthrie"
Middle-name: "Wilson"
Birthday: the 14th of July
Quotes: "This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me."
Freebase Primary MID: "/m/0830n"

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