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 is one of the most influential American folk musicians of the 20th century. Escaping The Dust Bowl Woodrow ...

The Dust Bowl ... generation that lived through the Dust Bowl. Filled with seldom seen movie footage, previously unpublished photographs, the songs of Woody Guthrie, and the observations of ...

Woody Guthrie for Folk Awards Hall of Fame Singer ... a place that seemed “like paradise” to a Dust Bowl migrant from Oklahoma. Woody wrote this song after a plane deporting Mexican farm ...

Seventy-one years ago, American folk legend Woody Guthrie scribbled in his journal ... having survived the Dust Bowl to make it out to California.

along with the Woody Guthrie Archives, a collection of his writing, art and songs, plus information about the Dust Bowl. For visitors who are inspired by Guthrie’s art, the center also is home ...