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Quoted in 'Great American Taxi Set New Album Release'

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:38:16 GMT

We're definitely connected to all the acts in the country/rock spectrum, as well as the spirit of Gram Parsons and Woody Guthrie ... We want to address the issues appropriate to our times, while making music that gets people up and moving.

Carrie Underwood, Kings of Leon top Okies in Grammy nominations

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:53:30 GMT

Published: 12/3/2009 1:25 PM Last Modified: 12/3/2009 1:53 PM Oklahoma ties bind a bevy of new Grammy Award nominations, which were announced Wednesday night.
Source: Tulsa World

SHOWS to see

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:03:17 GMT

An impressive, fully-equipped singer/songwriter with one foot in Paul Simon-esque folk-pop territory and the other kicking up Woody Guthrie's dust, Maine native Ellis Paul also is an accomplished guitarist and charismatic performer whose work stands...
Source: Iowa City Press Citizen

Beth Lomax Hawes–Alas, She’ll Never Return

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:29:52 GMT

Beth Lomax Hawes, folklorist, member of the great Lomax family of musical anthropologists, member of the Almanac Singers with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, among others, and most memorably, co-author of amusing song “M.T.A.”, died November 27 at the...
Source: True/Slant

Tuskegee exhibit honors musical history

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:17:06 GMT

TUSKEGEE -- Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Jimmie Rodgers, Mahalia Jackson, Pete Seeger, B.B. King, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Bill Monroe -- the list could go on and on.
Source: Montgomery Advertiser

Bess Lomax Hawes | Folk musician, 88

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:31:45 GMT

Bess Lomax Hawes, 88, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, cowrote the Kingston Trio's whimsical, banjo-driven hit "M.T.A. ," and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died, her family said Monday.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

Bess Hawes, prominent musician-folklorist, dies

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:18:15 GMT

Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at age 88, her family said Monday.
Source: The Seattle Times

Folklorist who explored American music dies

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:59:48 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore.—Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit The M.T.A. and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at age 88.
Source: Columbus Dispatch

Bess Lomax Hawes

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:57:51 GMT

LOS ANGELES -- Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at age 88, her family said Monday.
Source: GoErie.com

Quoted in 'Best of What's Next: Nathan Moore'

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:31:33 GMT

said in Pate Magazine:

When I read Rimbaud or Bukowski, or listen to Woody Guthrie or Hank Williams, I see them all in this long continuum of art and craft that has been going on since we first came up with language ... I have always felt an intense relationship and lineage to that history.

Woody Guthrie - 1945

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:01:06 GMT