Bruce Springsteen's new album Wrecking Ball focuses on characters whose lives were destroyed by the recession. The country-folk stomper "Shackled and Drawn" has lyrics that could have almost come from the Woody Guthrie songbook: "Gambling man rolls the...

In addition to the new CD, the set will feature remastered versions of the first two collections and a 1999 documentary about the collaboration between Bragg and Wilco called Man in the Sand. You can check out Wilco and Bragg performing “California...

In addition to the new CD, the set will feature remastered versions of the first two collections and a 1999 documentary about the collaboration between Bragg and Wilco called Man in the Sand. You can check out Wilco and Bragg performing “California...

Bragg just announced on his blog that the two acts will be releasing a third Mermaid Avenue album drawing from the 1997 sessions the group did commemorating the work of Woody Guthrie. Nonesuch Records will issue the record as part of a box set...

Avenue Volume III, which contains 17 unheard cuts from the original sessions. It will be rounded out with Man in the Sand, a 1999 documentary about the project by Kim Hopkins. We don't know exactly when The Complete Sessions will come out, but Woody's...

And there were thousands of them. It’s estimated Woody only managed to record 10% of the songs he wrote in his lifetime. It was this treasure trove of songs that Nora Guthrie discovered when she founded the Woody Guthrie Archives in the early 1990s. ...

Namely, Mermaid Avenue III, the as-of-yet unreleased third album by Bragg and Wilco composed of "recovered" Guthrie lyrics. Apparently the group and Bragg recorded three full albums, but cut down the songs to make two albums. So, later this year,...

These Brooklyn indie-folksters recorded the project in an old creamery building, and it follows their debut, The Apothecary EP, which The New York Times picked up on: "Leland Sundries, a band from New York led by Nick Loss-Eaton, is dedicated to...

Guthrie's family, including his children Arlo and Nora, is collaborating closely with officials at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles in assembling Woody at 100." It will include a broad swath of activities that will take place from California to

Wilco and Billy Bragg are in on the dealio. The whole collaboration started when Nora Guthrie and Billy Bragg met at a show in Central Park in New York, and as far back 1997 Wilco and Billy Bragg started recording old Woody Guthrie songs from archived...

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” It worked for Woody Guthrie as well. There are differences from one civil rights struggle to another. When I walked away from White America in 1955 to spend my...

While dates for the set’s release have not yet been announced, Bragg says on his website that he’ll be playing a series of shows focusing on Woody Guthrie’s legacy and the Mermaid Avenue songs. "I’ll be playing acoustic instruments and singing from the...

She began sending me lyrics of her father’s unrecorded songs, encouraging me to write new music and make a collaborative album. Her initiative finally bore fruit in 1997, when I got together with Wilco in Chicago and Dublin, where we recorded nearly 50...

But darker material like “Victor Jara,” a plaintive paean to the Chilean activist murdered by a C.I.A. backed junta, prove that Arlo is just as much the fascist killing guitar slinger as famous father Woody Guthrie. A rare opportunity to see a national...

For a fun Sunday out, come first for brunch, where the Rendezvous Restaurant is open from 11 am. to 3 p.m. , then stay for the exhibit and to browse the museum's permanent collection. The Woody Guthrie exhibit includes writings, artwork, photographs...

The similarly uptempo "Shackled and Drawn," meanwhile, offers a political analysis worthy of Woody Guthrie: "Gambling man rolls the dice, workingman pays the bill/ It’s still fat and easy up on banker’s hill/ Up on banker’s hill, the party’s going...

"I loved the idea of Jesus being on a motorcycle...": The creative director of Nicki Minaj's maligned Grammy performance expresses surprise at all the fuss about it. The Things Perfume Genius Carries: I guess this is a regular feature over at the Fader,...

He laughed at the idea, but that the question was even posed at all gives you some idea of the fury of his new album Wrecking Ball. Indeed, it is as angry a cry from the belly of a wounded America as has been heard since the dustbowl and Woody Guthrie,...

90 years after independence, many people seem to treat the outdoors as if it still belongs to a wealthy British landlord. So Dublin, a city of 1 million has more litter on its streets than Cairo, a metropolis of 7 million. Even in the U.S. more than 200...