American folk icon Woody Guthrie died 50 years ago, at the age of 55. At this year’s Folk Awards, he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Woody Guthrie for Folk Awards Hall of Fame Singer ...

An accident in the early 1950s left Woody Guthrie unable to play the guitar. After moving back to New York, Guthrie continued to compose songs and kept involved in the folk scene. Then ...

Woody Guthrie's songwriting was highly politically charged, and orbited themes of socialism and personal liberation in the face of the growth of capitalism and various forms of facism. Songs such ...

Guthrie died from complications of Huntington’s disease in 1967. Despite his decline, he had a major impact on American popular music in the second half of the 20th century and the rise of the ...

Woody Guthrie, shown here in the 1940s, created great lines in songs and drawings. Bettmann / Corbis; Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives And Collections, SI / Copyright ...

Many of Guthrie’s songs are archived in the US Library of Congress. In 1998, Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie, invited Billy Bragg to set a treasure trove of his unsung lyrics to music, which he ...

In 1937, he came to the attention of the wider public as a broadcast performer of hillbilly and folk songs on KFVD radio in ...