In honor of the
Woody Guthrie Centennial, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings will release the new box set "
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection" on July 10, four full days before the treasured musician would have turned 100 years old.
For a special pre-sale, including an instant album download and to hear a previously
unreleased Guthrie song, please visit:
folkways.si.edu/woodyat100.
Often called the Dust Bowl Balladeer, Guthrie wrote more than 3,000 songs in his lifetime, including American staples "This Land Is Your Land," "This Train Is Bound For Glory," "Pastures of Plenty" and "Pretty Boy Floyd."
He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1977 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.
To commemorate Guthrie's centennial year, Woody Guthrie Publications and the Grammy Museum, along with local, regional, national and international organizations, will celebrate his achievements with special events.
PLUS! The Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival is July 11-15 in Guthrie's hometown of Okemah. For more information on that event, visit
tulsaworld.com/guthriefest.
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