The song “This Land Is Your Land,” with its deceptively simple melody, was first put together by Woody Guthrie around 1940. When he first got the idea for it, “God Bless America” was getting a big ...
The Trump administration recently presented a vision for the country’s future in song and video. “The Promise of America is worth Protecting. The Future of our Homeland is worth Defending,” the ...
In this web exclusive, Nora Guthrie, daughter of legendary singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, explains to correspondent Lee Cowan how she discovered the original handwritten lyrics of her father's ...
A new, intimate album will include 13 previously unheard songs and a rewrite of “This Land Is Your Land.” By Jon Pareles In 1951, Woody Guthrie’s publisher gave him a newfangled piece of equipment: a ...
A TikTok showing “No Kings” protesters in Napa singing “This Land Is Your Land” Saturday has gone viral. The tune, written by Woodie Guthrie in 1940, is a famous American folk song. The video, shot by ...