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Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land." Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg and Tom Paxton have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence.
Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned traditional folk and blues songs. Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression, earning him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour." Throughout his life Guthrie was associated with United States communist groups, though he was seemingly not a member of any.
Actors: Christo Dimassis (producer), Roger M. Mayer (producer), Corey Brandenstein (producer), Corey Brandenstein (director), Corey Brandenstein (writer), Jake Brown (actor), Rob Tepper (writer), Rob Tepper (actor), Rob Tepper (producer), Samuel Derek Parnell (producer), Charlie Newmark (actor), Samuel Derek Parnell (actor), Samuel Derek Parnell (composer), Samuel Derek Parnell (editor), Charlie Newmark (producer),
Plot: Plagued by a degenerative neurological disease and facing his own mortality, America's Father of Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, relives a handful of life shaping occurrences while waiting for his closest friend, Cisco Houston, to show up for one last drink.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Burke Roberts (writer), Burke Roberts (producer), Burke Roberts (director), Burke Roberts (editor), Rob Tepper (actor), Patrick Park (composer), Patrick Park (actor),
Genres: Music, Short,Actors: Corey Brandenstein (director), Corey Brandenstein (writer), Rob Tepper (producer), Rob Tepper (actor), Samuel Derek Parnell (editor), Woody Guthrie (composer), Erica Rice (actress), Kym Carranza (producer), Sydney Lynch (actress), Phluid (miscellaneous crew), Colin de Andrade (miscellaneous crew), Ben Roberts (miscellaneous crew), Macelo Arestizabal (actor),
Genres: Music, Short,Actors: Melinda Dillon (actress), Melinda Dillon (actress), M. Emmet Walsh (actor), Read Morgan (actor), Harry Holcombe (actor), Bernie Kopell (actor), Randy Quaid (actor), Ronny Cox (actor), David Carradine (actor), James Hong (actor), Ted Gehring (actor), Brion James (actor), David Clennon (actor), Pablo Ferro (miscellaneous crew), Mary Kay Place (actress),
Plot: This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the suffering and strength of America's working class.
Keywords: 1930s, based-on-autobiography, based-on-novel, brawl, california, desert, dust-bowl, farm, folk-music, folk-songActors: Arlo Guthrie (writer), Graham Jarvis (actor), Pete Seeger (actor), Arthur Penn (director), Arthur Penn (writer), Arlo Guthrie (composer), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Arlo Guthrie (actor), Anna Hill Johnstone (costume designer), M. Emmet Walsh (actor), Dede Allen (editor), MacIntyre Dixon (actor), Hillard Elkins (producer), Thomas De Wolfe (actor), Joseph Manduke (producer),
Plot: Arlo Guthrie's song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. When the dump is closed, he drops it on top of another pile of garbage at the bottom of a ravine. When the local sheriff finds out a major manhunt begins. Arlo manages to survive the courtroom experience but it haunts him when he is to be inducted into the army via the draft. The movie follows the song with Arlo's voice over as both music and narration.
Keywords: actor-playing-himself, adultery, apostrophe-in-title, arrest, bare-breasts, barn, based-on-song, bipolar-disorder, blizzard, boarding-house'Long about nineteen thirty-one,
My field boiled up in the boiling sun.
'Long about nineteen thirty-two,
Dust did rise and the dust it blew.
'Long about nineteen thirty-three,
Livin' in the dust was a killin' me.
'Long about nineteen thirty-four,
Dangburn dust it blew some more.
'Long about nineteen thirty-five,
Blowed my crops about nine miles high.
'Long about nineteen thirty-six,
Me and my wife in a devil of a fix.
'Long about nineteen thirty-nine
We fanned our tails for that Orgegon line.
We got a hold of a piece of land,
Thirteen miles from the Coulee dam.
Coulee dam is a sight to see,
Makes this e-lec-a-tric-i-tee
'Lectric lights is mighty fine,
If you're hooked on to the power line
There just ain't no country extra fine.
If you're just a mile from the end o' the line.
Milk my cows and turn my stone,
Till them Grand Coullee boys come along.
My eyes are crossed, my back's in a cramp,
Tryin' to read my bible by my coal-oil lamp.
No, there ain't no country worth a dime,