But Woody didn't have the chance to find everything he was looking for. With a remarkable ability to turn any experience into a song almost instantaneously, Woody Guthrie spoke out for people of all colors and races, setting an example for generations of musicians to come. From the late 1920s to the 1950s, Guthrie wrote the words to more than three thousand songs, including This Land Is Your Land, a song many call America's unofficial national anthem. Whether he sang about union organizers, migrant workers, or war, Woody took his inspiration from the plight of the people around him as well as from his own tragic childhood. With This Machine Kills Fascists scrawled across his guitar in big black letters, Woody Guthrie brilliantly captured in song the experience of twentieth-century America. By Elizabeth Partridge.īefore Springsteen and before Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie. Artist/Personality Reference Textbooks Textbook - General. Composed by Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Partridge.
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